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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
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