With Kenneth Frampton
While listening to Kenneth Frampton during a roundtable discussion on architecture archives
at the 71st Society of Architectural Historians, Annual and International Conference, Minnesota, 2018.
Established at Harvard University in 1940, the Society of
Architectural Historians (SAH) aim to promote studies on architecture, design,
landscape and urbanism through the lens of history for the benefit of scholarly
communities and all. On this basis, "SAH" deals with public engagement with the
history of the built environment through national, international and local
programs. In 2018, this organization hosted its 71st International
and Annual Conference in St. Paul, Minnesota to discuss contemporary problems,
challenges, and opportunities in architecture history with 226 speakers from
the world (1).
It was very informative, stimulative and perfect mix of topics. In
particular, presentations and discussions on digital architectural records and
archives, essential skills for architectural historians, teaching global, the
audience for architectural history in the 21st century, labor issues
in the academy, religion in architecture history: challenges and opportunities,
and meeting minority scholars have opened up new horizons in my mind. I really
enjoyed scholarly and social gatherings and architectural tours as well. At 48
sessions, speakers presented and discussed their recent academic research and
studies on various topics (2). In addition, this year, the Society of
Architectural Historians awarded four notable architecture historians with “the
2018 class of SAH Fellows”; Kenneth Frampton, Eve Blau, Swati Chattopadhyay,
and Henry H. Keuhn (3).
One of the noteworthy things on this international conference is
budgets to support to discuss architecture history through a wide participation
around the world. In 2018, the 71st Society of Architectural
Historians Annual and International Conference awarded 16 international
speakers, 13 graduate students, 2 independent scholars with its fellowship. As
one of speakers awarded by their independent scholars, I would like to express
my deepest thanks to "SAH", Sandy Isenstadt, Conference Chair, SAH First Vice
President, Kristin Anderson and Katherine Solomonson, Local Co-Chairs.
1.https://www.sah.org/images/default-source/news/2018-saint-paul-stats.jpg?sfvrsn=c46b5f9b_0., accessed on June 10th 2018.
2.https://www.sah.org/docs/default-source/conference/final-program.pdf?sfvrsn=d37c5e9b_24&fbclid=IwAR0w8TeLwUhRrmhx1kDVbrCPz0zWnvFcHfuNZbkOqWTvVKhB0z3KZASHFUc,