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The 4th Savannah Symposium: Architecture and Regionalism http://www.scad.edu/dept/arlh/symposium4/index.html February 24-26, 2005 Invitation to Attend Directed by Thomas R. Gensheimer and E. G. Daves Rossell, with the assistance of Karl Schuler The Department of Architectural History at the Savannah College of Art and Design invites you to attend its fourth biennial symposium on architectural history and contemporary practice. The 2005 symposium features 65 speakers from around the world, 2 keynote addresses, 2 tours, and 1 plenary session addressing the built environment and regional identity. We begin with the simple proposition that architecture is inevitably regional. While globalizing trends alter or create entirely new regions, regional identities remain-if one can identify them. The symposium will explore the ways in which regionalism has been and is continuing to be defined or redefined. What are regional architectural traditions and how are they defined? Can regions be defined through architecture? How do regional spaces shape social identity? What constitutes a regional boundary in space or time? How have popular adoptions of regional form muddied the understanding of region? Is there a regional and timebound character to popular forms as well? What are some contested identities of regions? How have regional traditions of architecture and cultural landscape been interpreted by artists, authors, and scholars? Keynote speakers: Nezar Alsayyad and Henry Glassie. Nezar Alsayyad is Chair of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and Professor of Urban History at the University of California, Berkeley, as well as an architect and planner. A prolific scholar and designer, Alsayyad founded and is executive director of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, and editor of Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review. His many books include most recently, The End of Tradition (2004), and Urban Informality (2004) co-edited with Ananya Roy. Cairo: A Medieval City for a Modern World co-edited with Nasser Rabbat will be out in early 2005. He has produced and directed two public television video documentaries, Virtual Cairo and At Home With Mother Earth. His architectural and urban projects include a resort in the Red Sea, several apartment buildings, and numerous award-winning competition entries. More information can be found at: http://arch.ced.Berkeley.edu/people/faculty/index.htm Henry Glassie is College Professor of Folklore and Co-Director of Turkish Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. A seminal figure in the study of vernacular architecture, Glassie has produced an unending series of provocative articles and such major books as Pattern in the Folk Culture of the Eastern United States (1969), Folk Housing in Middle Virginia: A Structural Analysis of Historic Artifacts (1975) Passing the Time in Ballymenone: Culture and History of an Ulster Community (1982), Material Culture (1999), and Vernacular Architecture (2000). As of 2004, the Presidential Special Achievement Award of the Vernacular Architecture Forum is named the Henry Glassie Award. More information can be found at: http://www.Indiana.edu/~alldrp/members/glassie.html Plenary Session speaker: Kingston Wm. Heath Kingston Wm. Heath is Director of the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation, School of Architecture and Allied Arts, University of Oregon. He is most recently the author of The Patina of Place: The Cultural Weathering of a New England Industrial Landscape (2002), winner of the Abbott Lowell Cummings Award presented by the Vernacular Architecture Forum "in recognition of the outstanding work in North American Vernacular Architecture Studies." Heath is currently working on Crossing the Vernacular Threshold: An Interpretive Theory of Vernacular Architecture (forthcoming). More information can be found at http://hp.uoregon.edu/index.cfm?mode=faculty For more information on the symposium series, a schedule of events, abstracts of papers, and registration, please see http://www.scad.edu/dept/arlh/symposium4/index.html
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