This is a reminder of your opportunity to respond to the call for papers
for the ARLIS/NA-sponsored session at the 2007 conference of the Society
of Architectural Historians in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
If you are not in a position to propose a paper yourself, perhaps you
will pass the call on to colleagues or faculty members in your
institutions who may be doing research in the field. Please note that
for first consideration proposals should be received by August 18.
The call is provided below, and is also available through www.sah.org
Many thanks,
Al Willis
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"Homes and Haunts": North America's Dwellings and Dwellers
"Homes and Haunts" recalls how domestic structures both provide shelter
and frame human experience. Drawn from the Library of Congress's list of
standard subject headings, the phrase also calls attention to the
relationship between the production of dwellings in the realm of design,
and the recording of clients' experiences of them (and their architects)
in the realm of text. For this session organized by the Arts Library
Society of North America, papers are sought that explore how clients'
needs and experiences have shaped North America's domestic architecture
and found expression in its literature.
In the nineteenth century, considerations of real or imaginary clients,
their requirements, and their expectations occupied a prominent place in
the proliferating American literature on dwelling design. In the
twentieth, an even broader array of housing questions preoccupied
domestic architects and commentators alike, while house designs appeared
in an ever more diverse range of publications including stock-plan
books, magazines, newspapers, CD-ROMs, and websites. Architectural
history and other disciplines meanwhile produced a secondary literature
examining the practical and symbolic uses of domestic spaces as the
homes or haunts of various individuals and social groups (including
architects and their families).
Papers in this session might examine particular writings (such as
autobiographies or post-occupancy evaluations); studies of the domestic
clientele of specific architects; the portrayal or conceptualization of
house clients in certain publications; or records of their "ghostly"
traces in specific designs. Whatever their focus, the papers should shed
new light on the concept of "home" in the architectural discourse of
Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, or the United States.
Send proposals to: Alfred Willis (Harvey Library, Hampton University),
527-C Waters Edge Drive, Newport News, VA 23606 USA; home tel.: (757)
595-3296; work tel.: (757) 728-6767; work fax: (757) 727-5952; e-mail
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