Michael McCulloch is Associate Professor of Architecture and Master of Architecture Program Chair at Kendall College of Art and Design of Ferris State University. This interview is based on his new book, Building a Social Contract: Modern Workers’ Houses in Early-Twentieth Century...
Travis McDonald is Director of Architectural Restoration at Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest. This interview is based on his new book, Poplar Forest: Thomas Jefferson’s Villa Retreat (University of Virginia Press, 2023). JF: What led you to write Poplar Forest? TM:...
Marita Sturken is Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University Steinhardt. This interview is based on her new book, Terrorism in American Memory: Memorials, Museums, and Architecture in the Post-9/11 Era (NYU Press, 2022). JF: What led...
In a recent piece at The New York Times, Sam Roberts discusses five New York City buildings that “changed American history.” They are: Federal Hall The Marble Palace The 69th Regiment Armory Bank of the United States The Old Gym Building...
Atlas Obscura is featuring some of the early American architecture of Watervliet, New York, the first Shaker village in the United States. Here is a taste of the accompanying piece: The millenarian Christian sect, fleeing persecution in England and isolating themselves from...
AHA Today, the blog of the American Historical Association, is featuring the work of several history graduate students who will be writing regular posts throughout the summer. I am thrilled to see that one of the students chosen to write...
Tom Carter is Professor of Architectural History at the University of Utah. This interview is based on his new book, Building Zion: The Material World of Mormon Settlement (University of Minnesota Press, March 2015). JF: What led you to write Building Zion: The...
Last summer I had the privilege of speaking at one of the events sponsored by the Newport Historical Society in honor of the 350th anniversary of religious toleration in Rhode Island. You can read about my visit to Newport here....
World Parliament of Religion, Chicago, 1893 I know very little about georeferencing and digital mapping, but I have become fascinated by the whole process through my affiliation with a new digital project we are sponsoring at Messiah College. We call...
Philip Bess teaches in the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture and is the author of Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architecture, Urbanism, and the Sacred. Crisis Magazine is running an excerpt from this book in which Bess reflects...
The National Park Service reported yesterday that the recent earthquake produced a 4-foot crack in the Washington Monumnent. Here is a taste of an article from NBC News: Cracking was found in the stones at the top of the Washington...
I know very little about architecture, but I do like to look at old academic buildings on old campuses. That is why I am looking forward to reading and viewing Bryant Tolles Jr. new book Architecture & Academe: College Buildings […]
Religious architecture buffs might find this interesting. A former church in Brookline, Massachusetts has been converted into three condominium units. See more pics at the Wall Street Journal.
