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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 [log in to unmask] .