Looking Forward to Buffalo
SAH is excited to visit Buffalo, NY in 2013! Buffalo is a community that is engaging its distinguished architectural and planning legacy as a catalyst for development and growth. The SAH conference will feature tours of Buffalo’s architecture and landscapes, 34 paper sessions and 1 graduate student lightning talk focusing on new research, receptions, and awards. The conference will also feature many opportunities to engage with people and organizations shaping Buffalo’s future: architects, urbanists, critics, not-for-profits, foundations, and civic leaders.
Conference Information:
Information about the program and registration will be posted as it becomes available:
Conference Highlights
 | Wednesday, April 10th
Day-long seminar on The Sustainable Post Industrial City—Using Buffalo’s architectural Legacy for New Growth and New Vitality.
Read More |  | Thursday, April 11
Plenary Talk by Paul Goldberger, Pulitzer Prize-winner architecture critic and writer for The New Yorker, on “The Public Role of Architectural History.”
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| Friday, April 12
Round table discussion about the changing focus of the historic preservation movement and its impact on the redevelopment of Buffalo’s historic downtown and neighborhoods. Featuring Paul Goldberger. Read More
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PechaKucha (20 slides x 20 seconds each x 8 speakers) at Asbury Hall, the church turned performance venue by indie Buffalo musician Ani DiFranco. The Buffalo PechaKucha will feature presentations by both SAH members and local designers, architects, and historians. Read More |
| Saturday, April 13
Housing Wright - Columbia University's Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture is excited to co-sponsor an event with the SAH at the Darwin Martin House's Greatbatch Pavilion in recognition of the recent joint acquisition of the Frank Lloyd Wright archives by the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library and the Museum of Modern Art. In addition to featuring a discussion of the acquisition by Carole Ann Fabian, Director of Avery Library, and Barry Bergdoll, the Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the evening will include Reinhold Martin, Director of the Buell Center, with a preview of its related and ongoing research on Wright, his work, and their place in American architectural history. Read More
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