BUELLDISSERTATION COLLOQUIUM

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 | Saturday Buell Hall East Gallery

8–9 April, 2011 Columbia University

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

Panel 4 Modernist Aberrations: Building for the Bomb:

Respondent: Joan Ockman The Dialectics of Expressionism in American Art & Architecture Monumentality and the Manhattan Project
University of Pennsylvania S. Faisal Hassan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Deanna Sheward, New York University
3:30–5:15
3000 Years in 15 Minutes:
Monumental Itineraries for American Tourists in Post-War Europe
Jennifer Reut, University of Virginia

Concluding round-table with all participants

5:30

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
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