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Lost Interiors: Interpreting the Ephemeral Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, Albuquerque (NM), 2024 Thursday April 18 from 11am to 1pm Chairs: Anca Lasc and Paula Lupkin Lost Interiors: Interpreting the Ephemeral opened with just a few brief words from Paula Lupkin as chair. After introducing HIG and its program of events to attendees, Lupkin acknowledged the role of Anca Lasc, the organization’s co-president, in shaping the session and selecting the excellent slate of presenters.   Drawing on the CFP, Lupkin introduced the session, which addressed the lifecycle and experience of ephemeral interiors through new methods, theories, archival sources, and innovative technologies. The session participantsRead More →

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Session: New Critical Frameworks for Interior Architecture Session Chairs: Cammie McAtee (Independent) and Karen R. White (Humber Polytechnic)  Following last year’s panel on the challenges of studying interiors, this session seeks presentations exploring new approaches to the interpretation and historiography of interior architecture in Canada. We welcome contributions that bring forward un(der)studied subjects or reconsider well-known ones, examining them through new interpretive lenses. Papers might consider a wide range of interior spaces, the objects that define(d) them, and/or the actors, communities or institutions that created them.  While progress has been made on decolonizing architectural history by expanding and/or recentring its approaches and subjects, the historyRead More →

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Please join HIG for a special curator-led tour of the exhibition The Persistence of Hand Drawing: Interior Rendering Today at the New York School of Interior Design Gallery on Saturday, February 15th, 2025 at 11am. Co-curators Donald Albrecht and Thomas Mellins will guide us through this exhibition that explores the timeless art of hand-drawn interiors and celebrates the creativity and skill of contemporary architects and designers who continue to keep this tradition alive. It focuses on hand drawings by 12 established and emerging New York-based architects and interior designers and features drawings and design portfolios from the New York School of Interior Design Archives thatRead More →

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We are proud to announce that, for the first time, The SAH Historic Interiors Article Award proposed and sponsored by HIG will be offered! Deadline: Dec 15, 2024 This award will be presented by the Society of Architectural Historians for a written work that contributes significantly to our understanding of interiors history. Purpose This award was conceived by the Historic Interiors Affiliate Group of SAH (HIG) in 2022. HIG is a Board-approved SAH affiliate group that is focused on fostering new approaches to the history of interiors as both an independent line of scholarly inquiry and as an important aspect of the expanded study ofRead More →

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Do You Have an Idea For a HIG Event? Let Us Know! HIG is currently accepting submissions for event proposals from its members at large. If you have an idea about a panel or a roundtable that is likely to be of interest to our members, and which you would like to organize, please send a one to two page proposal and a copy of your CV to: alasc@pratt.edu and P.Lara-Betancourt@kingston.ac.uk Deadline: November 15, 2024 Your submission can fall within any one of the following categories: pedagogy, research, curating, theory and practice.Read More →

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Upcoming conference Queer(ing) Space(s), from Antiquity to the Present – organized by Dr Ewan Harrison & Dr Joshua Mardell for the Society of Antiquaries of London on October 30, 2024 – will feature the research of HIG members Alice T Friedman, Timothy M Rohan, Imogen Hart and Olivier Vallerand. With a transnational/transcultural and – no less critically – transtemporal outlook, the aim of the conference is to help fill a lacuna in architectural history, heritage and planning, material culture studies, the history of collections, and aligned disciplines, and capture pluralistic, pioneering work around the theme of queerness in architecture. The conference will tap into themes of sexualityRead More →

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Deadline: July 26, 2024 From information circulated in SAH Opportunities Weekly Roundup (July 12, 2024): HIG members may be interested in submitting a paper for consideration for this paper panel session at the Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting on March 20-22, 2025 in Boston, MA. Session Abstract: Interior spaces emerged in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries as arenas for the curation of identities that aligned with the virtues of humanism, masculinity or femininity, and religious piety. These thoughtfully crafted spaces placed political power, civic pride, and diverse forms of connectivity on display through a variety of visual strategies. Acting as more than sites of self-fashioning, these spacesRead More →

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Interior Spaces of Crime and Coercion To really appreciate architecture,” says Bernard Tschumi in Advertisements for Architecture, “you may even need to commit a murder.” This panel considers the interior spaces that pertain to crimes and other forbidden actions. It calls for scholarship that looks at rooms where “wrong” things are done—spaces of transgression—as well as the more frequently studied spaces of “correction.” The latter are entwined with ideas of modernity, from Piranesi’s Carceri to Foucault on Bentham’s Panopticon. The former—the scenes of the crime—are themselves subjects of study by historians of criminology like Peter Becker and Richard F. Wetzell, and the journal Crime, HistoireRead More →

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Registration is now open for the Society of Architectural Historians Historic Interiors Group’s (SAH-HIG) Emerging Scholars Committee and Chelsea College of Art’s (UAL) collaborative program Confronting the ‘Chamber of Horrors’: Taste in Interiors. Graduate students, postdocs and recent graduates from diverse disciplinary fields of study will present brief 10-minute talks. The presentations will take place virtually via a live Teams webinar on June 7, 2024, 12:00PM – 2:00PM EDT. LINK to Register. AGENDARead More →

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Join us on Wednesday, March 27, 2024, from 12:00 to 1:30pm CDT for a discussion about Queering the Interior: Shame, Masculinity and Twentieth-Century Interior Design. This SAH CONNECTS program concerning interiors will be significant as a collaboration between two professional organizations, the SAH Historic Interiors Group (HIG) and the College Art Association (CAA). Timothy M. Rohan, co-chair of HIG’s Events and Conferences Committee, will organize the event, introduce it, and participate. The editor-in-chief of CAA’s Art Bulletin, Christy Anderson, will moderate the discussion. It will bring together authors who have written about queerness, shame, and interiors for a special March 2024 issue of the Art Bulletin. The program will drawRead More →