VAF Paper Sessions

FIRST MORNING SESSION

Session 1: New York, New York
Chair: Andrew Dolkart, Columbia University

• New York City's Oyster Barges: Architecture's Threshold Role Along the Urban Waterfront
  Michael J. Chiarappa, Washington College
  James B. Kirk, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
• Downtown Sideways: Paper Streetscapes of Nineteenth-Century Lower Manhattan and the Commercial Vernacular
  Jeffrey Cohen, Bryn Mawr College
• Skyscraper Girls: Clerical Workers and City Spaces at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
  Midori Green, University of Minnesota

Session 2: Preservation Methods and Lessons
Chair: Gary Stanton, University of Mary Washington

• Drawing Standards: A Western Approach
  Thomas Carter, Jack Brady, and Collin Tomb, University of Utah
• Improving from the Inside Out and the Outside In: The Historic Chicago Bungalow Initiative
  Anne Stephenson, University of Chicago
• Lessons of History, Questions of Preservation: The Timothy Knapp House, Rye, New York
  Shelley Smith, Fordham University

Session 3: Making and Appropriating Urban Spaces
Chair: Gabrielle Esperdy, New Jersey Institute of Technology

• Leapers, Perverts, and Tramps: Vernacular Appropriation of a Planned Urban Space
  Tim Davis, National Park Service
• Inventar: Struggles and Inventions in the Economics and Aesthetics of Housing in Cuban Cities
  Patricio Del Real, Clemson University
  Anna Cristina Pertierra, University College London
• Protest and Performance in Public Space: Miami, Florida in the 1950s
  Gray Read, Florida International University

Sessions 4: Architecture and Identity
Chair: Elizabeth Cromley, Northeastern University

• Philadelphia's Lazaretto Quarantine Station: The Architecture of Public Health in Early Nineteenth-Century Urban America
  Catherine Lavoie, National Park Service
• Urban Cigar Stores: Where Men Could be Men
  Heather Boyd, University of Delaware
• Behind the Screens: A History of Postwar Architectural Screens, Slipcovers, and Skins
  Chad Randl, National Park Service

Session 5: Reinterpreting the City from the Ground Up
Chair: William Littmann, California College of the Arts

• The Circle and the City: How a Place in Indianapolis Became Its Center
  John Beeler, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis
• Six Tin Cans: Landscape, Golf, and Race in the Midwest
  Stephanie Seawell, Indiana State Museum
• Race Time: The Indianapolis Motor Speedway
  Annie Gilbert Coleman, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis

MID-MORNING SESSION

Session 6: Making a Home
Chair: Susan Kern, College of William and Mary

• Quadrominium 1970: Real-Estate Vernacular in the in the Age of Aquarius
  Matt Lasner, Harvard University
• Apartments in Disguise: Small Multiple Dwellings in the "City of Homes," 1907-1930
  Todd Gish, University of Southern California [cancelled]
• The Duplex and the Small, Multi-Family House: Alternative Strategies for Fulfilling the American Dream 1900-30
  Thomas Hubka, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
• Batey, Stoop and Veranda: Building "Thresholds" Between Realms in Dwellings: The Puerto Rican Example
  Jorge Ortiz-Colom, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriquena

Session 7: The Urban Landscape of the Nineteenth Century
Chair: Richard M. Candee, Boston University

• Libraries in Public before the Age of Public Libraries: Interpreting the Furnishings and Designs of "Social Libraries," 1800-1860
  Adam Arenson, Yale University
• Adaptation and Urbanism in Port City Boardinghouses: Wilmington, NC, 1850-1890
  Glenn Perkins, Historic Hope Foundation
• Promotional Fiction? Late Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia as the "City of Homes"
  James Jacobs, National Park Service
• Civic Order on Beacon Hill, 1800 - 1850
  Jeffrey E. Klee, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Session 8: Making and Unmaking Place
Chair: Alison Isenberg, Rutgers University

• Shack Architecture: Embedded Poetry and The Surrounding Politics
  Reena Tiwari, Curtin University of Technology
• A Landscape of Enclaves: Making of Sarasota, Florida
  Matthew Hyland, GAI Consultants, Inc.
• Deutschland Recreated: Post-World War II Place Making and the Neo-American Vernacular
  Caroline Swope, Seattle Central Community College

Session 9: Ethnic Vernaculars
Chair: Cynthia Falk, Cooperstown Graduate Program, SUNY Oneonta

• "It's More Than Just the Tree": Christmas House Displays and the Celebration of Home Ownership Among Italian Americans in New York City
  Joseph Sciorra, Calandra Institute, Queens College
• Playing Crazy: Dressed Yards and the Performance of Community in an African-American Neighborhood
  Kim Tanzer, University of Florida
• Architectural Expression of Cultural Identity in Tribal Museums and Cultural Centers
  Anne Marshall, University of Idaho/Arizona State University

Session 10: Cultural Symbolism and Civic Identity
Chair: Carla Yanni, Rutgers University

• The Tourist as City Builder
  Phil Gruen, Washington State University, Pullman
• Totems of Modernity: The 1922 Uproar Over the Milwaukee Public Museum's Haida Totem Pole
  Victoria Cain, Columbia University
• Religious Pavilions at the NY World's Fair of 1964-65: Melding the Vernacular and the Modern
  Julie Nicoletta, University of Washington, Tacoma
• Death in the Capital City: Congressional Cemetery's National Landscape
  Julia Sienkewicz, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne

AFTERNOON SESSION

Session 11: Prescriptive Architectures
Chair: Anna Andrzejewski, University of Wisconsin, Madison

• American Grids: Policies of Inclusion/Exclusion in the Southwest
  Karen Rogers, Binghamton University
• Re-tooling the Modern Indian Home: Architectural Pattern Books in Early Twentieth-Century South Asia
  Will Glover, University of Michigan
• Federal Parochialism: Post Office Design Guidelines and the Production of the Local
  Jesse Vogler, Texas Tech University
• Where Nature Meets Culture: The Summerhouse in the Nineteenth-century United States
  Kerry Carso, State University of New York at New Paltz

Session 12: Vernacular Nationalism
Chair: Jyoti Hosagrahar, Columbia University

• Understanding Chinese Modernity through Lilong Housing Typology
  Bing Wang, Harvard University
• Bodies and Buildings: Framing Heritage in Colonial Delhi
  Mrinalini Rajagopalan, University of California, Berkeley
• The Mediterranean Architectural Formula: Building Block for the Colonial City
  Eliana Perotti, ETH Zürich, Institut für Geschichte und Theorie der Architektur
• ID: Identity -- Inclusive Diversity in African Architecture
  Lawson Katiza, Sydney, Australia

Session 13: Transportation and the 20th Century Urban Landscape
Chair: Zach Schrag, George Mason University

• Building a Modern Vernacular: Bush Terminal and the Evolution of an Urban Industrial Landscape
  Malka Simon, New York University
• De-constructing the Big Dig: A Modernist Story in Images
  Amy Finstein, University of Virginia
• Would Jesus Drive a Peterbilt? Encountering Contemporary Christianity at the Truck Stop Chapel
  Ethel Goodstein-Murphree, University of Arkansas
• Automobile at Rest and Its Interactions with the Twentieth-Century American City
  Shannon McDonald, Shannon Sanders McDonald, Principal/Designer

Session 14: Urban Design and the Working Class
Chair: Will Moore, University of North Carolina, Wilmington

• A Nation that Bathes Together: Structuring Morality and Class in New York City's Progressive-Era Public Baths
  Andrea Renner, Columbia University
• The Other Side of the Tracks: The Laboring Class Landscape of Cooperstown, NY, 1900-10
  Kiernan Lannon, Cooperstown Graduate Program
• The Boston Cooperative Building Company and Tenement Reform in the Late Nineteenth Century
  Amy Johnson, Otterbein College
• Designing for Race and Class in Company Towns: Worthland Village and Hickman Row in Claymont, DE
  Robin Bodo, Delaware Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs
  Rebecca J. Sheppard, Center for Historic Architecture and Design, University of Delaware

Session 15: Preservation Roundtable
Topic: The Designation of Cultural Properties

• Laura Hansen, Program Officer, J. M. Kaplan, Fund
• Kathy Howe, Historic Preservation Specialist, New York State Historic Preservation Office
• And other government representatives

Session 16: Education Roundtable
Topic: to be announced