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**Events and News**

Upcoming Events

 

December 2, 2009

Conference: Construction History, a One-Day Exploration

Pension Commissioner's Suite, National Building Museum. Click here for program information, and here for a registration form.

 

Exhibition: "Drawing Toward Home; Designs for Domestic Architecture from Historic New England"

Dates: November 18, 2009 - January 17, 2010

Boston University Art Gallery, 855 Commonwealth Avenue at the Stone Gallery inside the College of Fine Arts building on the Boston University campus (BU West T stop on the "B" Green Line). Gallery hours are Tuesday-Friday 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, Saturday & Sunday 1:00 - 5:00 PM (closed Mondays and holidays). For more information, please visit www.bu.edu/art.

* Wednesday, December 2, 2009, at 4:00 PM Boston University Art History and Architecture professor Keith Morgan will lead a gallery talk. (Location: BUAG at the Stone Gallery)

* Tuesday, December 15, 2009, at 4:00 PM Historic New England Library and Archives curator Lorna Condon will lead a gallery talk. (Location: BUAG at the Stone Gallery)

* Saturday, January 16, 2010, 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM "Drawing Toward Home: A Symposium on Designs for Domestic Architecture from Historic New England" (Location: Conference Auditorium, 2nd floor of the George Sherman Union, 775 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston). Speakers will include: James F. O'Gorman, professor emeritus, Wellesley College; Christopher Monkhouse, Eloise W. Martin curator of European Decorative Arts, Art Institute of Chicago; Lorna Condon, curator, Library and Archives, Historic New England; Debora Mayer, Helen Glaser senior paper conservator, Harvard University; Keith N. Morgan, professor, American and European architecture, Boston University; Carl Nold, president, Historic New England Historic New England will take reservations at 617-227-3957, ext. 254

Please contact Christina An, BU Art Gallery graduate assistant, education/community outreach initiatives, with any questions at can@bu.edu

The Boston University Art Gallery (BUAG) and Historic New England present Drawing Toward Home: Designs for Domestic Architecture from Historic New England. The exhibition features 100 drawings of houses selected from the rich collections of Historic New England. The drawings range in date from the late eighteenth through the twentieth centuries, depicting an array of domestic building types, from estates and modest single-family houses to summer cottages and typical Boston multi-family dwellings. The drawings document the development of the architectural profession in America. Drawing Toward Home illustrates changes in taste and technology and presents many of the drawings as works of art. The exhibition includes pieces by both famous and little-known architects as well as houses designed in the Federal, Victorian, Arts and Crafts, and International styles. It features exterior elevations, plans, sketches, details, and highly finished, beautifully rendered drawings. In addition, there are drawings for landscape designs, outbuildings, fences and even a proposal for an elaborate birdhouse. The BUAG showing and symposium are sponsored by the Boston University Humanities Foundation (www.bu.edu/hf/).

EXHIBITION AND GALLERY EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC THE BUAG SHOWING AND SYMPOSIUM ARE SPONSORED BY THE BOSTON UNIVERSITY HUMANITIES FOUNDATION

 

Feb. 15, 2010

Call for papers, "History of Construction in the Americas"

Construction Society of America Second Meeting, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, May 20-22, 2010

Papers are welcome to be submitted to consideration; papers can be on any topic related to construction history in the Americas. Abstracts will be reviewed by the Program Committee and authors will be notified by February 15, 2010. Presentation materials will be required by April 30, 2010. Click here for more information.

 

March 20 - 21, 2010

Glass and Glazing in the 21st Century; Design and Preservation of Contemporary and Historic Architecture

Sponsored by Technology & Conservation, MIT Department of Architecture's Building Technology Program, and Boston Society of Architects' Historic Resources Committee

The conference will treat glass and glazing of the building envelope. It's not too soon to be thinking of poster presentations for this major conference. If you would like to propose a poster, please see this link for more information. The deadline is December 1, 2009. Special registration rate for previous attendees of T&C/MIT/BSA conference, valid until September 15th for this 2010 conference.

Click here for the final (as of September 2009) conference schedule, a listing of conference speakers, and the registration form.

The conference, once again, will be held on the MIT campus. Continuing education credits will be available (16 units for the March 20-21 program; 5 additional units for the optional stained glass program on March 22). For those who require a hotel room, a block of rooms have been reserved at the Cambridge Marriott Hotel at the special rate of $139 (plus tax) per night - booking code is: tnctnca.

If you have any questions on the conference, please contact Susan E. Schur, Hon. AIA, FAPT, Conference Organizer/Chair, Tel: 617-623-4488; Fax: 617-623-2253; e-mail: ses_tec_con@msn.com

 

May 20 - 22, 2010

Construction Society of America Second Meeting, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia