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Buell Dissertation Colloquium 2011 FW
Buell Dissertation Colloquium 2011 FW
Buell Dissertation Colloquium 2011 FW
A presentation of selected papers by candidates from international doctoral programs based on dissertation research in areas related to American architecture, landscape, and urbanism
Friday, 8 April
Opening Discussion Mabel O. Wilson, Columbia University, author of Progress and Prospects:
5:00–6:30 Black Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums,
in conversation with Reinhold Martin, Director, Buell Center, Columbia University
Reception
6:30–7:30
Saturday, 9 April
Introduction Reinhold Martin, Director, Buell Center, Columbia University
9:00–9:15
Panel 1 Orson Fowler and the Octagon House as a Technology of the Self Typical Plan as Index of Generic
Respondent: Edward Eigen Irene Cheng, Columbia University Francesco Marullo, Berlage Institute
Princeton University
9:15–10:45
Panel 2 World Investments, Productive Homes: America’s Architectural Engagement with the Territory of Hawaii
Respondent: Dianne Harris The Wichita-Lima Axis (1900-1959)
University of Illinois Helen Gyger, Columbia University Kelema Lee Moses, The Pennsylvania State University
at Urbana-Champaign
11:00–12:30
Panel 3 Constructing Community Control: People, Plants, and Plants (An Upper West Side Story)
Respondent: David Smiley African American Design Activism in Harlem, c. 1968 Mariana Mogilevich, Harvard University
Barnard College Brian Goldstein, Harvard University
1:30–3:15
The Power of Parables: Oscar Newman's Theory of Crime Prevention
Through Urban Design (1969-1974)
Joy Knoblauch, Princeton University
Reception to follow
6:00–7:00
Free and open to the public For reservations, contact Anna Kenoff at
aks2117@columbia.edu
BUELLDISSERTATION COLLOQUIUM
8–9 April, 2011
Preservation
Columbia University Planning
for the Study of American Architecture Architecture
The Temple Hoyne Buell Center Columbia
The Temple Hoyne Buell Center
for the Study of American Architecture
Columbia University
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New York, NY 10027
The Temple Hoyne Buell Center for
the Study of American Architecture at
Columbia University promotes innovative
scholarship and informed debate
concerning the built environment through
a wide offering of public programs.
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