Save the Date! Latrobe Chapter Symposium
Fifteenth Biennial Symposium, Architecture & National Identity, March 21-22, 2026
Mihran Mesrobian and the Late Ottoman Empire
Latrobe Chapter Lecture by Caroline Mesrobian Hickman
Georgetown University: An Architectural History
Latrobe Chapter Lecture by Stephanie J. Rufino
Complicating the Canon: Modern Architecture and the Black Middle Class
Latrobe Chapter Lecture by Jacqueline Taylor, Ph.D.
POSTPONED due to inclement weather! See new date.
Book Talk: The Edith Farnsworth House
Partner event hosted by the National Building Museum
Consuming Landscapes: What We See When We Drive and Why It Matters
Latrobe Chapter Lecture by Thomas Zeller
Life in the Clouds: The Forgotten Victorian Obsession with Roof Gardens
Latrobe Chapter Lecture by Nathaniel Robert Walker, PhD
Black Agency in the City: Post-Urban Renewal Landscapes in the American Rust Belt
Latrobe Chapter Lecture by Elizabeth Keslacy
Colonial, Ranch, Flat Roof: the Mid-Century Modern House in America
Latrobe Chapter Lecture by Richard Guy Wilson
Historic Alleyways of Washington, DC: A Continuum of Uses
Latrobe Chapter Lecture by Kim Prothro Williams
General Casey and Superintendent Green: Two Influential Engineers Who Helped Build Washington, DC
Latrobe Chapter Lecture by Connie Lai
“They Have Decided What Houses Will Be Built”: Indigenous Peoples, Architecture, and the Settler-Colonial State, 1920–1970s
Latrobe Chapter Lecture by Magdelena Milosz, 2023 Fellow Recipient
The DC Row House and Its Shifting Reputation
Latrobe Chapter Lecture and Annual Meeting by Alison K. Hoagland
Unlocking the Secrets of the Bulfinch Gatehouses and Gateposts
Join us for a walking tour and lecture!
Re-Discovering an Art Deco Master: Edgard Sforzina’s Designs for a Modern America
Latrobe Chapter Lecture by Steve Knight, President, The Art Deco Society of Washington
How to Succeed as a Woman: Chloethiel Woodard Smith and the Journalists who Promoted Her
Latrobe Chapter Lecture by Kathleen James-Chakraborty
Telephone City: Architecture, Urbanism, and the Rise and Fall of the Bell Monopoly
Latrobe Chapter Lecture by Kathryn Holliday, PhD
Charles Warren Callister and the Architecture of Aging in the Postwar United States
Latrobe Chapter Lecture by Matthew Lasner, PhD
From Mills to Museums, Plantations to Planned Communities: Highlights from Buildings of Maryland
Latrobe Chapter Lecture by Lisa Davidson and Catherine Lavoie
Sixteenth Street NW: Washington, DC's Avenue of Ambitions
Latrobe Chapter Lecture by John DeFerrari and Peter Sefton
Howard University Architecture and Landscape Tour
Co-hosted with Howard University and Docomomo DC
Barry Farm: Community, Land & Justice in Washington, DC
A Film Screening and Conversation Hosted by the DC Legacy Project
Summer Picnic and Hard Hat Tour at Menokin Plantation
Co-hosted by the Latrobe Chapter SAH and APT DC
