2012 SAH, 65th Annual Conference, Detroit

SAH 2012, 65th Annual Conference, Detroit, 18-22 April

The IAS did not sponsor a session at the 2012 conference, but papers on Italian topics included:

PS12 Medieval Structures in Early Modern Palaces
Thursday, April 19, 2:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Chair: Max Grossman, University of Texas, El Paso, D3-22, Cobo Center
Pope Pius II and Siena: Architecture of Power, Old and New, A. Lawrence Jenkens, University of North Carolina-Greensboro
Todi’s Palazzo dei Priori: Recurring Reminder of the Communal Age, Samuel Gruber, Syracuse University
Medieval Fabric in Roman Palaces: Reuse and Referentiality, Guendalina Ajello Mahler, New York University

PS14 Rethinking Architecture in the Age of Printing
Thursday, April 19, 2:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Kathryn Blair Moore, New York University, and Michael Waters, New York University, Co-Chairs D3-26, Cobo Center
The informational economies of San Paolo fuori le mura in 19th-century Rome, Richard Wittman, University of California at Santa Barbara

PS15 The Architectures of Austerity: Between Crisis and Possibility
Friday, April 20, 9:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Chair: C. Greig Crysler, University of California, Berkeley, D2-09, Cobo Center
Dopoguerra durante la guerra: Gio Ponti’s New Italian house, 1944-1945, Emily Morash, Brown University

PS18 Not the Jesuits: “Other” Counter-Reformational architecture
Friday, April 20, 9:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m., D3-20, Cobo Center
Chairs: Susan Klaiber, Winterthur, Switzerland, and Denise Tamborrino, Bologna, Italy
Before the Jesuits: The Lateran Canons in Italy, Elisabeth Wünsche-Werdehausen, Munich, Germany
A “Venetian” Discalced Carmelite Church in Habsburg Lands, Helena Seražin, Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts

PS21 Landscape Architecture and Economics
Friday, April 20, 9:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Chairs: Sonja Duempelmann, University of Maryland, College Park, and Marc Treib, University of California, Berkeley,  D3-26, Cobo Center
Oranges & Lemons: The Giardino dei Semplici in 18th C Florence, Anatole Tchikine, Trinity College Dublin

PS22 Contested Modernisms: Politics, Theory, and Design
Friday, April 20, 2:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m., D2-09, Cobo Center
Chair: Hans Morgenthaler, University of Colorado at Boulder
Castlebuilders and Political Puppets: Postwar Italy Reconstructed, Anne Toxey, University of Texas, San Antonio

PS24 Architecture’s Nocturnes
Friday, April 20, 2:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Thomas Mical, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Chair, D2-13, Cobo Center
Evocations of a Historical Night in Venice, Anne Marie Fisker, Aalborg University, Marie Frier Hvejsel, Aalborg University

PS25 Drawing in the Design Professions, 1500 to 1900
Friday, April 20, 2:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Chairs: Ann C. Huppert, University of Washington, and Thaïsa Way, University of Washington, D3-20, Cobo Center
Conception & Construction: The Architectural Drawings of Galeazzo Alessi, Rebecca Gill, University of Reading

Graduate Student Lightning Rounds
Friday, April 20, 2:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Chairs: Katherine L. Carroll, Boston University, M. Jordan Love, Columbia University, and Michael P. McCulloch, University of Michigan, D3-28, Cobo Center
Palazzo Datini between the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Lorenzo Vigotti, Columbia University
The Topographies of Palladio’s Villa Pisani, Montagnana, Johanna D. Heinrichs, Princeton University