The Institute of Classical Architecture and Art
cordially invites you to a lecture entitled
Classical Language Past and Present
presented by Dr. David Watkin
Co-sponsored by Classical Excursions and the New England Chapter, Society of Architectural Historians
Ashley Park, Hampshire by Robert Adam
March 26, 2012
Reception at 6:00 pm
Lecture begins promptly at 6:30 pm
Book signing to follow
The Algonquin Club
217 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02116
Hors d’oeuvres provided; cash bar available
David Watkin considers classicism as an architecture of imitation combined with invention in which the orders are timeless through their relation to the human body and through their ornament derived from plant forms. He weaves a web of resonances linking past architects, Ictinus, Vitruvius, Bramante, Scamozzi, Schinkel, Hansen, Soane, Cockerell, McKim, Mead and White, with current architects, Krier, Porphyrios, Greenberg, Quinlan and Francis Terry, John Simpson, Robert Adam, George Saumarez Smith, and the brilliant classical sculptor, Alexander Stoddart.
The lecture is both historical and contemporary, for Professor Watkin draws on his personal association with many of the present day architects whose work he has defended in public planning enquiries and written about in books and articles. The story involves a life-long battle against the British establishment which is Modernist in terms of both architecture and, ironically, of conservation.
Dr. Watkin has published many books, including A History of Western Architecture (5th ed. 2011), The Classical Country House: From the Archives of Country Life (2010), as well as monographs on Thomas Hope, ‘Athenian’ Stuart, Soane, Cockerell, Quinlan Terry, and John Simpson. His growing interest in antique precedent led to his book, The Roman Forum(Harvard 2009; paperback ed. 2011).
He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and Vice-President of the Georgian Group. He has taught at the Prince of Wales’s Institute of Architecture, the School of Architecture, University of Notre Dame, the Bard Graduate Centre, New York, and has been a member of the Driehaus Award jury in Chicago.
$25 for ICAA members and employees of professional member firms, and members of the Boston Society of Architects; $35 for the general public.
Valet parking available at The Algonquin Club for $22 per vehicle.
1 AIA/CES CEH available
Photo courtesy National Park Service, Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site
Frederick Law Olmsted 1882-1890: Boston, Brookline and Beyond
Ethan Carr, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and editor of Volume 8 of The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted: The Early Boston Years 1882-1890, provides an insider’s look at the process of preparing the volume including new and revealing details of his work on the Boston Park System. The volume will be published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2013.
MARCH 15, 2012
Wheelock College, 43 Hawes Street, Brookline MA
6:00 pm Reception
7:00 pm Lecture
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
LIMITED SEATING – RESERVE YOUR SPOT NOW
To RSVP email Friendsoffairsted@gmail.com or call 617-566-1689 ext. 265.
Limited Street parking is available. Public parking is not allowed in the Wheelock parking lot. This lecture is easily accessible by MBTA Green Line: “C” Train – Hawes Street or “D” Train – Longwood stations.
Friends of Fairsted gratefully acknowledges the support of the following co-sponsors: National Park Service, Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site; Wheelock College; Boston Society of Landscape Architects; Brookline GreenSpace Alliance; Brookline Historical Society; Emerald Necklace Conservancy; Fenway Alliance; Friends of the Muddy River; High Street Hill Association; Historic New England; The Landscape Institute, Boston Architectural College; Massachusetts Historical Society; Mount Auburn Cemetery; Muddy River Restoration Project Maintenance & Management Oversight Committee; National Association for Olmsted Parks; Pressley & Associates; Society of Architectural Historians, New England Chapter and The Trustees of Reservations.
TOUR: A Day in Worcester – Saturday April 14
WORCESTER NESAH TOUR SATURDAY APRIL 14
Limited to 30 participants, there 14 more slots remaining. Please contact Virginia Raguin vraguin@holycross.edu 781-391-5793. This tour has been organized in cooperation with Susan McDaniel Ceccacci, Education Director, Preservation Worcester sceccacci@aol.com
(Projected schedule and updated information)
Entrance fees: Salisbury Mansion, $3; Worcester Art Museum $10; and Preservation Worcester $5.00. Basic total cost of the trip is $18.
You may bring your own lunch, but we are also negotiating a prepackaged sandwich lunch from the Museum whose cost will be ready later (possibly $12?).
We still need to determine precise logistics for getting around Worcester but are expecting that we will car pool and thus have much less hassle
Tour Itinerary
Greek Revival, Renaissance Revival, Queen Ann, and Aesthetic Style
Special tour and explanation of the restoration of the 12th century limestone Chapter House in the Worcester Art Museum – Artal-Isbrand, Worcester Art Museum
Arrive Worcester 10 AM; leave 5:00 PM
RETURN BOSTON 6:15 PM
10-11:30 AM
(Click on any blue titles with links for more information)
Highland Street, Abraham Savage, Georgian, 1772 with additions 1819 and 1830, now a house museum owned by the Worcester Historical Museum
Highland Street (next door to Mansion), Elias Carter, Neo Classical, 1840’s, now offices Exterior (possible interior view of grand staircase)
Harvard Street at Highland Street, opposite Salisbury Mansion and House, Stephen C. Earle, 1870’s, stone Queen Anne, contains William McPherson aesthetic stained glass and extensive tilework on fireplaces
11:45 AM Worcester Museum’s Chapter House: talk and viewing
The 12th century chapter house from central France will have just been restored. It is a landmark of medieval architecture in the U.S. The testing of the stonework and conservation decision made will be presented by Paula Artal-Isbrand, one of the conservators. The Museum worked in cooperation with the International Center of Medieval Art on the analysis of limestone.
12:45 lunch in Museum’s Café (pre-selected items will make the service faster) thus people will have a short time to look around the rest of the museum
2:00 -2:30 Via car. Very short tour of one of the premier concert venues in New England
Main Street, downtown, Elbridge Boyden, 1857, Renaissance Revival, lecture hall
2:45 – 3:45 Crown Hill Historic District VIA CAR then WALKING. More information on Worcester’s Greek Revival.
off of Pleasant Street, near downtown, 1840’s-1860’s, a fine cluster of middle class Greek Revival dwellings, also examples of Bracketed, Mansard, a 1902 Gothic Quaker Meeting House, an 1848 School (now hairdressing academy), 1880’s Pleasant Street Baptist Church, 1870’s with 1930’s rebuilding after a fire, Victorian Gothic, All Saints Episcopal Church
4:00- 4:45 Norcross Brothers Houses VIA CAR. For More Information Click Here:
16 and 18 Claremont Street (near Clark University), brownstone Queen Anne, 1880’s
34th Annual Student Symposium
New England Chapter, Society of Architectural Historians 34th Annual Student Symposium
Saturday, February 18th 2012
9:00 am – 1:30 pm
MIT, Bush Room (10-105, access from 77 Massachusetts Ave.)
Alessandra Amin
Smith College
French Studies & Art History
Sound and the Construction of Ritual Space in the Musée du Quai Branly
Christianna Bonin
Williams College Graduate Program
History of Art and Architecture
Preserving Losers’ History
Andreas Kalpakci
Yale University
Architecture
Planning the World Capital: Paul Otlet’s Model of Cosmopolitan Citizenship, 1907-1913
Christopher Ketcham
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
History, Theory, and Criticism of Art
Disfiguring Architecture: Gutai and Material Memory
Ana María León
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture
Exhibiting Politics: The Wanderings of P.M. Bardi and Lina Bo
Erin McKellar
Boston University
History of Architecture
This Is “Your Britain”: Kensal House and the Promotion of British Modernism
Emily Morash
Brown University
History of Art and Architecture
Mostre and Concorsi: Italian Exhibitions and Architectural Continuity, 1940-1947
Morgan Ng
Harvard University
Architecture
The Textual-Sonic Landscapes of Jacques Perret’s Des Fortifications et Artifices (1601)
David Potter
Northeastern University
Architecture
An Architecture of Democracy: Gottfried Semper and the Evolution of Style
Annual Meeting 2012
The New England Chapter, Society of Architectural Historians
cordially invites you to its
Annual Meeting
Wednesday February 8, 2012
MIT Media Lab
Building E14, 75 Amherst Street
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
6:30PM Business Meeting and Lecture, Free and Open to the Public
Gary Van Zante
Curator of Architecture & Design, MIT Museum
will deliver a lecture entitled
New Orleans in 1867: Photographs for the Emperor III of France
*(optional paid reception following lecture. Please see details below)
*Optional Reception
The evening will feature a fabulously catered reception at the cost of $15.00 per person. If you would like to attend, indicate yes on your registration and mail a check payable to NE/SAH by Friday February 03, 2012 to the following address:
New England Chapter/Society of Architectural Historians
141 Cambridge Street
Boston, MA 02114
Directors’ Night 2011
The New England Chapter, Society of Architectural Historians, cordially invites you to a series of short presentations by members of the Board at the traditional
Directors’ Night
Wednesday December 7th, 6:30PM
Gund Hall Room 124
Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Preserving the Legacies of Breuer and Flansburgh
Joseph Cornish, Historic New England
A Modern Colony of All Gas Homes in Brookline
Greer Hardwicke, Brookline Preservation Commission
Libya Ancient and Modern on the Eve of the Revolution
Jacob Albert, Principal, Albert, Righter & Tittmann Architects
Aguas Livres: Aqueducts and Waterworks in Portugal
Dennis DeWitt, Metropolitan Waterworks Museum
The New England Chapter, Society of Architectural Historians
present
A lecture entitled
Design Theory at Harvard Before Hudnut and Gropius
By Marie Frank, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
On Thursday October 27th, 2011
Followed by Book Signing and Reception
Thursday October 27th, 2011
6:30PM
Room 124
Graduate School of Design
Harvard University
48 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
