2013
Global History – Mellon Conference
School of Architecture and Planning, MIT; School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada (SSAC): Annual Conference
Infrastructures and Institutions: Settings for Life
May 29 – June 1, 2013
Edmonton
Session Co-Chair (with Linda Fraser) and Paper Presenter
“Canada’s Master Architect”: Arthur Erickson and the Public Realm
2013
Docomomo US National Symposium
April 18-20, 2013
Sarasota, Florida
Does Modernism Matter in Florida? The Destruction and Preservation of Alfred Browning Parker’s Postwar Architecture (presented with Serge Ambrose)
Association of American Italian Studies (AAIS): Annual Conference
Interdisciplinary Approaches To Italian Art And Architecture
April 11-14, 2013
Eugene
Pride in Modesty: Modernist Architecture and the Vernacular Tradition in Italy
Global Science and Technology Forum
1st Annual International Conference on Architecture and Civil Engineering
March 18-19, 2013
Singapore
Concrete Visionary: Arthur Erickson and Canadian Modern Architecture
The Mediterranean: Region-making by design
March 14-15, 2013
Cambridge, MA
New Geographies Lab
Aga Khan Program, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design
Bryn Mawr
February 20, 2013
Bryn Mawr College, Growth and Structure of Cities Department
Arthur Erickson and the Canadian City
2012
University of Miami, School of Architecture
The Wolfsonian – FIU
University of Houston Energy and Environmental History Group (Center for Public History)
October 26, 1:30 – 3:00 p.m.
Agnes Arnold Hall, 549
Nature versus Artifice: Arthur Erickson and the New University Campus in Canada
Pecha Kucha (University of Houston College of Architecture)
September 4, 6 pm
Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie (Escola de Arquitetura e Urbanismo)
August 21, 7:30 pm
O Orgulho na Modéstia: Arquitetura Modernista e a Tradição Vernacular na Itália (1920-1970)
Universidade de Brasilia (Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo)
August 20, 7:00 pm
North-South: Mediterranean Modernism and the Histories of Modern Architecture
Universidad Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Faculdade deArquitetura)
August 14, 6:30 pm
Utopias de Concreto: Arthur Erickson Arquiteto
Universidad Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Faculdade deArquitetura)
August 13, 6:30 pm
Por Uma Historia Alternativa: Modernismo Mediterrâneo
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo)
August 10, noon
Por Uma Historia Alternativa: Modernismo Mediterrâneo
Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien (University of Applied Arts Vienna)
June 11, 12:00-1:00 pm
Concrete Utopias: Architectural Environments of Arthur Erickson
Escola Superior Artistica do Porto (ESAP), Porto,Portugal
2012 International Conference
Surveys on Vernacular Architecture: Their Significance for 20th Century Architectural Culture
May 17-19
Rustic versus Rural: The Vernacular Architecture Survey and the Many Faces of Italian Modernism
The University of Oklahoma, College of Architecture
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Educating the Architectural Imagination
Masters Europeo in Storia dell’Architettura – European Masters in History of Architecture (Università degli Studi Roma Tre)
April 26, 2-6 pm
April 27, 9-11 am
April 28, 9-1pm
Dal Rustico al Rurale: Verso una storia alternativa dell’architettura moderna italiana
New York University, Institute of Fine Arts (Daniel H. Silberberg Lecture Series)
March 6, 6pm – 7 pm
Pride in Modesty: Modernist Architecture and the Vernacular Tradition in Italy
Drury University Hammons School of Architecture
February 20, 12-1 pm
Educating the Imagination
Pennsylvania State University, H. Campbell and Eleanor R. Stuckman School of Architecture
February 3, 12:00 pm – 1 pm
History versus Hagiography: Arthur C. Erickson and Twentieth Century Architecture
Penn Design – The University of Pennsylvania School of Design
Department of Architecture
January 19, 2012, 12-1 pm
Topographies of the Modern: Architectural Environments of Arthur Erickson
IE School of Architecture and Design
January 12, 2012, 1 pm – 2 pm
Transformation: The Vernacular in Modern and Contemporary Architecture
;
2011
Reconsidering Postmodernism
Friday, November 11
Institute of Classical Architecture & Art
11:15 am – 12:00 pm
Postmodernism Before Postmodernism: Ernesto N. Rogers and the Ideal of Continuity
Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Cambridge
Situating the Modern: Modern Architecture and the Vernacular Traditions
October 17
2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
The Geopolitics of Mediterranean Modernism
School of Architecture, The University of Texas at Arlington
October 5
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Arthur Erickson: Architectural Environments
Fay Jones School of Architecture, University of Arkansas
Sept. 12
11:15 am – 12:00 pm
Super Fast vs. Super Slow: The Tale of Two Vernaculars
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Study Centre, Seminars
August 11
6:00 pm
Arthur Erickson: Architectural Environments
Dalhousie University, Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
July 21
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
The Vernacular Tradition in Modern and Contemporary Architecture
College of Architecture, Lawrence Technological University
April 22
11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Architectural Research Centers Consortium New Researcher Lecture
School of Architecture, Design and Environment, University of Plymouth, UK
April 7
9:00 am – 10:30 am
Keynote Speaker:
Fixed? Or Transformed? The Role of Vernacular in Modern and Contemporary Architecture
2010
University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Fine Arts, Art
Architecture & Design Now
November 22
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Arthur Erickson and the New University
College of Architecture, Texas A & M University, College Station
November 15
5:30 pm
Topographies: The Architecture and Urbanism of Arthur Erickson
School of Architecture, University of Southern California
November 5
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
Topographies: The Architecture and Urbanism of Arthur Erickson
Florida Atlantic University, School of Architecture (Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale)
October 8
5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Architectural History Roundtable: Primitive Modernities
Michelangelo Sabatino (UH), David Rifkind (FIU), Vladimir Kulić (FAU)
The Paul L. Cejas Lecture Series
October 7
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Arthur Erickson: Global Architect Ante-Litteram
Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston
July 21
6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Concrete Visions: Twentieth Century Architecture and Urbanism in Context
(in conjunction with Tomás Saraceno: Lighter than Air)
1st International Meeting EAHN (European Architectural History Network), Guimarães, Portugal
June 17 – 20
9:10 am – 9:35 am
“Village Architecture” at the Exhibition of Italian Ethnography in Rome, 1911
The Houston Seminar (& The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, MFAH)
May 2 and 9
5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
The Commonplace Transformed: The Vernacular in Modern Architecture and Contemporary Design
Roundtable with Cindi Strauss (Curator for Modern and Contemporary Decorative Arts and Design, MFAH)
Universidad Anahuac, School of Architecture, Mexico City
March 17
1:00 pm –2:00 pm
Modern Architecture and the Mediterranean
The University of St. Thomas (& Crossroads Cultural Center-Houston)
Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia: Through the Sculptor’s Eyes
March 10
6:30 pm
Roundtable with: Michelangelo Sabatino (UH) and Etsuro Sotto (Sculptor: La Sagrada Familia, Barcelona, Spain)
Performance by: Hisako Hiseki (Pianist, Barcelona, Spain)
School of Architecture, College of Architecture + Planning, University of Utah
March 8
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
Pride in Modesty: Modernist Architecture and the Vernacular Tradition in Italy
Chicago, College Art Association Annual Conference
Session: The Political Landscapes of Capitals
February 13
2:30 pm – 5 pm
Benito Mussolini’s “Third Rome”: Between Tradition and Modernity
University of Calgary, Faculty of Environmental Design, Calgary, Canada
January 13
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Arthur Erickson’s Wunderkammer: Travel and Translation
2009
Arthur Erickson Conservancy (AEC), Vancity Theatre, Vancouver International Film Centre
November 23
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Journeys to the East: Arthur Erickson in Japan
SESAH – Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians, Jackson, Mississippi
Session: Late Modern Architecture
October 30
9:30 – 10:00 am
Renzo Piano’s Conversion: From Pompidou to Houston
School of Architecture, Prairie View A & M University
October 28
2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
North-South: The Mediterranean Vernacular and the Histories of Modern Architecture
Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau and the Klassik Stiftung Weimar
Bauhaus Global (in conjunction with Modell Bauhaus – Die Ausstellung)
September 21 – 26
North versus South: The Other Bauhaus
Houston Public Library – Houston Institute for Culture
Vernacular Architecture and the Building Arts in Houston: The Gulf Coast Connection Symposium and Building Arts Demonstration
September 12
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Hybrid Practices: A Developing Vernacular of Cultural and Religious Identity in Houston
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH)
NO ZONING – Artists Engage Houston
August 29
2:00 pm
Panel Discussion: Art and City at the Margins
Rick Lowe, Dean Ruck, Michelangelo Sabatino, William F. Stern, Susanne Theis
Society of Architectural Historians – 62nd Annual Meeting, Pasadena, California
Session: Open Session on American Indian Architecture (Chair: Anne Marshall)
April 3
3:00 pm – 3:25 pm
Douglas Cardinal: Rethinking the “Primitive” in Contemporary Canadian Architecture
Los Angeles, Italian Institute of Culture (Istituto Italiano di Cultura)
Round Table: The Centennial of Italian Futurism
February 27
6:00 pm
Moderator: Michelangelo Sabatino
Participants: Jennifer Bethke, Siobhan Conaty, David Gariff, Matthew McLendon, Ara Merjian
Los Angeles, College Art Association Annual Conference
Session: Italian Futurism One Hundred Years Later
February 27
Capri and the “Primitive”: Remoteness and Presentness
2008
School of Architecture, Morgan State University
October 23
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
The Politics of Ordinary Things in Italy
SESAH – Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians, Greensboro, North Carolina
Session: Political and Philosophical Balancing Acts in Modern Architecture
October 3
9:05 am – 9:35 am
Shedding the Political: The Case of Peter Eisenman and Giuseppe Terragni
EAAE/ARCC (European Association for Architectural Education / The Architectural Research Centers Consortium), Copenhagen, Denmark
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
June 25-28
Archives and Architectural History: Authenticity and Deceit in the Digital Age
Istanbul Bilgi University, Graduate Program in Architectural Design, Istanbul, Turkey
May 15
10:00 am – 11:00 am
Mediterranean Modernism in the Historiography of Twentieth-Century Architecture
Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschicte, Munich
Bauhaus and the Mediterranean: European Modernism and the Classical Heritage
March 25-26
10: 00 am – 10:45 am
North-South: The Historiography of Modern Architecture and the Mediterranean
2007
Eindhoven (University of Technology), The Netherlands
Tectonics – Making Meaning
December 10-12
“Primitive” Tectonics in the Canadian Architecture of Arthur Erickson
The Glasgow School of Art
December 10
Italian Architecture and the Vernacular Tradition: Toward a Regionalist Modernism
Ghent (Kadoc-K.U.Leuven, VIOE-Flemish Heritage Institute, Ghent University)
November 9
2:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Toward a Regionalist Modernism in Italy
SESAH – Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians, Nashville, Tennessee
Session: Urbanism in Formation
October 26
3:10 pm – 3:40 pm
Houston Modernism: The Poetics of Heat and Light
Design Council, Museum of Fine Arts Houston (MFAH)
September 10
6:30 pm
From Farmers to Fashion-isti: Italian Modern Design and the Vernacular
The Houston Seminar (& The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, MFAH)
May 2, 16, and 23
5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Andrea Palladio Five Hundred Years Later – From the Pastoral Ideal to McMansions
Society of Architectural Historians – 60th Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Session: Vernacular and Modernity
April 15
9:00 am – 11:30 am
Session Chair: Michelangelo Sabatino
University of Texas at Austin, School of Architecture
Sanctioning Modernism – A Symposium on Post-WW II Architecture
Session: Modernism and the State (Moderator Danilo Udovič-Selb)
March 2
9:30 am
Revisiting Temporal Boundaries: Italian Modernism as a Case Study
New York, College Art Association Annual Conference
February 14
9:30 am – 12:00 pm (and 2:30 pm – 5 pm)
Session Chairs: Emily Braun and Michelangelo Sabatino
Italia barbara: “Primitives” from Piero to Pasolini (Part 1 & 2)
2006
SESAH – Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians, Auburn, Alabama
Session: Modernism
September 28
10:35 am – 11:00 am
Primitivism and the Modern Home
Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Research Center
August 1
6:00 pm
Symmetries: Georgia O’Keeffe, Frank Lloyd Wright, and the Architecture of the American Landscape
The Wolfsonian–FIU, Miami Beach
May 18
7:00 pm
Domesticated Utopias: The Ideal Home in the Twentieth Century
2005
SESAH – Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians, Fort Worth, Texas
Session: Texas Architecture
October 13
8:35 am – 9:05 am
Charles Moore, Texas, and the Vernacular
Savannah College of Art and Design 4th Annual Savannah Symposium – Architecture & Regionalism
February 25
Session: Modernism and the Question of Place (Chair: Andrew Nedd)
9:25 am – 9:50 am
Italian Modern Architecture and the Vernacular Tradition
2004
Society of Architectural Historians – 57th Annual Meeting, Providence, Rhode Island
Session: Vernacular and Modernity
April 15
9:00 am – 11:30 am
Session Chair: Michelangelo Sabatino
2003
Yale University, School of Architecture
Eisenman / Krier: Two Ideologies
November
Respondent – History
“Pure” vs Operative History of Architecture: The Case of Manfredo Tafuri
2002
Society of Architectural Historians – 55th Annual Meeting, Richmond, Virginia
Session: Fascism and Architecture Reconsidered
April 18
3:00 pm – 3:25 pm
The Reception of Le Corbusier in Fascist Italy
2001
Vernacular Architecture Forum, Annual Meeting, Newport, RI
June 10
3pm
A History of Vernacular Terminology
Society of Architectural Historians – 54th Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada
Session: The Vernacular as an Aesthetic Category for Architecture (Chair: Elizabeth Hornbeck)
April 19
2:35 pm – 3:00 pm
Vernacular “Anonymity” versus Classical (Fascist) Authority
Tour Guide – Toronto’s Commercial Core
