Architecture & National Identity
Fifteenth Biennial Symposium
Hosted by The Catholic University of America, School of Architecture and Allied Arts and the National Building Museum
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Program
SATURDAY, March 21
Koubek Hall, Edward M. Crough Center for Architectural Studies, The Catholic University of America
7:30 am - 5:30 pm
Includes breakfast & lunch
Session 1: Palimpsests for the People: Post-Colonial Reflections on the Former Eastern Bloc (Chair: John Sandor, Latrobe Chapter of SAH)
Session 2: Tracing the Fault Lines: Design and Division within the Fabric of Nations (Chair: Sun-Young Park, George Mason University)
Session 3: Building an Audience: Performing National Identity in Architecture and Urbanism (Chair: Elizabeth Milnarik, U.S. National Park Service)
Session 4: Excavating the Foundations: Recovering and Reinventing National Traditions (Chair: Diane Rhyu Taylor, National Building Museum)
Keynote Address: Lawrence Vale, Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Design-Politics of ‘National Identity’ in Capital Cities: Paris / Beijing / Mexico City
SUNDAY, March 22
Auditorium, National Building Museum
1:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Includes final reception
Session 5: Modernities in Crisis: Projecting National Futures on Uncertain Horizons (Chair: Adnan Morshed, The Catholic University of America)
Session 6: Peripheries and Erasures: Outlining the Lost, Forgotten, and Marginalized (Chair: Jason Montgomery, The Catholic University of America)
Special Book Talk: Kay Fanning and Thomas E. Luebke, U.S. Commission of Fine Arts American Shrines: The Architecture of Presidential Commemoration
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About the Latrobe Chapter
Named after Benjamin Henry Latrobe (1764–1820), America's first professional architect, the Latrobe Chapter is the metropolitan Washington affiliate of the Society of Architectural Historians. Since its founding in 1967, the Latrobe Chapter has served as a forum for the local academic and professional community of architectural historians and architects interested in history. Membership is open to anyone interested in architecture and the built environment. www.latrobechaptersah.org
About the Biennial Symposium
Over the past two decades, the Latrobe Chapter has hosted over a dozen biennial symposia, typically with one day of paper sessions and day of related tours centered on a specific theme in the historic development of metropolitan Washington, DC. Past symposia have welcomed scholars from across the country to deliver papers on such diverse themes as John Joseph Earley, Mid-Century Modernism, and Wartime Washington.
For more information on prior symposium themes, click the link below: