New England Chapter

Society of Architectural Historians

141 Cambridge Street

Boston,  Massachusetts  02114

 

 

 

Past events

 

 

The Gods of Copley Square

A talk by Douglass Shand-Tucci

Monday, October 27, 2008, 6 pm

Location: The Castle, 225 Bay State Road, Boston

Information: 617-353-5404, or core@bu.edu

 

 

Paul Rudolph and the Perspective Section

A lecture by Timothy Rohan

At the home of Mollie Schaeffer and Jeffrey Wallen, designed by Paul Rudolph

43 Gate House Road, Chestnut Hill MA

Friday, May 9, 2008

 

 

Paris in April: Architectural Transformations

The Richard Saivetz Memorial Architectural Lecture

Pollack Fine Arts Center, Brandeis University

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

 

 

NE/SAH Annual Meeting

Business meeting

 Lecture by Roger Reed: "Gridley J. F. Bryant and Victorian Boston: What's Not in the Book"

Liberty Hotel, Esplanade Meeting Room

Thursday, March 27, 2008

 

 

NE/SAH Student Symposium

Stubbins Room, Harvard GSD

Saturday, March 15, 2008

Symposium Program

 

 

 Directors' Night

Presentations by present and former NE/SAH Board members

Thursday, November 15, 2007

 

 

Is Cram Relevant?

A lecture by Ethan Anthony AIA

President of HDB/Cram & Ferguson, Boston

Sunday, October 28, 2007

 

 

Domestic Architecture in Watertown by Charles E. Brigham (1841-1925)

Saturday, September 22, 2007

 

 

Tour of Shi-ite Mosque, Billerica MA

June 9, 2007

 

 

Tour of MIT and Harvard Campuses

Saturday, May 5, 2007

 

 

Spanish Master Builders in New England:

The Art of Guastavino Tile Vaulting

Lecture and tour of the Guastavino vaults at the Boston Public Library

John Ochsendorf, Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, M. I. T.

Thursday, March 15, 2007

 

 

29th Annual Student Symposium

Saturday, February 10, 2007

Abstracts

 

 

NE/SAH Annual Meeting 2007

Professor Charles B. McClendon, Chair, Brandeis University Department of Fine Arts
"The Transformation of Sacred Architecture in the Early Middle Ages"
Tuesday, January 30, 2007

 

 

 Directors' Night

Presentations by present and former NE/SAH Board members

Thursday, December 7, 2006

 

 

The Art and Architecture of the Polish Wooden Synagogue

An exhibition at the Boston Center for Jewish Heritage at the Vilna Shul, and a lecture by Thomas C. Hubka

Wednesday, November 1, 2006

 

 

H. H. Richardson's Brookline House

Thursday, September 21, 2006

 

 

A Walking Tour of Three Buildings in Hingham, Massachusetts

Saturday, May 20, 2006

Directions

 

Campus Heritage: Three Dimensional Expressions

A lecture by Richard P. Dober, AICP

Tuesday, April 11, 2006

 

 

Architecture for Empire's Sake: Splendors of British India

A lecture by Robert Grant Irving

Tuesday March 14, 2006

 

 

28th Annual Student Symposium

Saturday, February 11, 2006

 

 

NE/SAH Annual Meeting 2006

Mark M. Jarzombek, Department of Architecture, MIT
"Designing the New MIT (1913): The Five Mistakes that Led to Success"
Thursday, February 9, 2006

Directions

 

 

 Directors' Night

Presentations by present and former NE/SAH Board members

Thursday, December 8, 2005

 

 

Werner Hegemann and the Search for Universal Urbanism

A lecture by Christiane Crasemann Collins

Monday November 14,  2005

 

 

Ralph Adams Cram: An Architect's Four Quests

A talk by Douglass Shand-Tucci

Sunday, October 30, 2005

 

 

The Park in the Villa: Development of a New Setting for Court Culture in the Changing Society of Seventeenth Century Rome

A lecture by Mirka Benes

Thursday, September 22, 2005

 

 

Walking Tour of Lowell MA

A walking tour led by Marie Frank

Saturday, June 18, 2005

Directions

 

 

East Side Stories: Race and Representation in the Freeway Metropolis

A lecture by Eric Raymond Avila

Tuesday, June 7, 2005

 

 

"Byrdcliffe: An American Arts & Crafts Colony"

A lecture by Cheryl Robertson

Monday, May 16, 2005

 

 

NE/SAH Annual Meeting 2005

Jeffrey Karl Ochsner, Department of Architecture, University of Washington
"H. H. Richardson and the American West: Seattle as a Case Study"
Friday, February 25, 2005

 

 

27th Annual Student Symposium

Saturday, February 12, 2005

 

 

Directors Night 2004

December 9, 2004

 

 

Copley Square

 

Part I: Boston Public Library and Trinity Church

Tour the Boston Public Library's restored McKim Building,

including "The Triumph of Religion" murals by John Singer Sargent,

and view the restoration projects underway at Trinity Church.

Saturday, November 20, 2004

 

Part II: Traditions in Stained Glass

Dr. Virginia Raguin, Professor of Art History, College of the Holy Cross

"Image, Art, and Community: Traditions in Stained Glass" 

Sunday, November 28, 2004

 

 

Private Tour of Frank Gehry's Stata Center

The Ray and Maria Stata Center for Computer, Information and Intelligence Sciences

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

June 19, 2004

 

 

Architecture and the Arts and Crafts Movement in Boston:
Harvard's H. Langford Warren

A lecture by Maureen Meister

March 11, 2004

 

 

NE/SAH Annual Meeting

A lecture by Dr. Joseph M. Siry:

"The Chicago Auditorium Building:  Adler

and Sullivan's Architecture and the City"

at SPNEA's Lyman Estate, "The Vale"

January 15, 2004

 

 

Directors Night 2003

December 11, 2003

 

 

"The Art of the Engineer: A Historical Perspective"

A lecture by Professor Antoine Picon

November 20, 2003

 

Bus Tour to Nahant

October 18, 2003

 

Streetscapes of Desire:  Linear Panoramas of the 19th-century American Downtown

A lecture by Jeffrey A. Cohen

September 25, 2003

 

 

The Lost Half Mile:  A Boat Tour Of The Charles River

June 7, 2003

 

 

 

25th Annual Student Symposium

April 5, 2003

 

 

 

 

 

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