Vernacular Architecture Forum : Tucson 2005

Session I: 8:30-10:00 a.m.

I A. VAF Origins and Future 25th Anniversary Session**

Catherine C. Lavoie, HABS: " [Architectural] Plans & Visions: The Objectives of the Early HABS Program in the Study and Documentation of Vernacular Architecture"

Travis McDonald, Jefferson's Poplar Forest: "Can You See It From the Field: The Impact of Vernacular Architecture Studies on Public History in Virginia, 1980-2005"

Anna V. Andrzejewski, University of Wisconsin-Madison: "Changing 'Perspectives': PVA and Vernacular Architecture Studies in North America"

I B. The Housing of Business and the Business of Housing

AnnMarie Adams, McGill University and Stacie Burke, University of Manitoba: "A Doctor in the House: The Architecture of Combined Home-Clinics for Physicians in Toronto"

Howard Davis, University of Oregon: "Living Over the Store: The Commercial/Residential Building from New York to Bangkok"

Elihu Rubin, University of California, Berkeley: "From Motel to Dingbat: Developing the 960s California Garden Apartment"

I C. Compartmentalizing Time and Ethnicity

Andrew Johnston, Wentworth Institute of Technology: "Ethnicity Underground: Nineteenth Century California Mining Landscapes"

Charles Parrott, Lowell National Historical Park: "Mining Tradition: Shelter and Segregation in the Company Towns of the Sonoran Highlands, 1897-1918"

Alexis McCrossen, Southern Methodist University: "The Unveiling of the Jeweler's Clock: The Clock as a Modern Motif in American Architecture, 1870-1930"

I D. Native and Colonial Urbanisms

Stella Nair, University of Michigan: "What¹s in a name? In search of Inca Vernacular Architecture built during the Spanish Occupation"

Johnathan A. Farris, Washington University: "Thirteen Factories of Canton: An Architecture of Sino-Western Collaboration and Confrontation"

Preeti Chopra, University of Wisconsin, Madison: "Refiguring the Colonial City: Recovering the Role of Local Inhabitants in the Construction of Colonial Bombay, 1854-1918"

Session II: 10:15-11:45 a.m.

II A. Hybrids and Revivals in a Colonial Southwest

Morgan Rieder, William Self Associates: "Cultural Fusion or Imposition: The Territorial Style in New Mexico and Arizona"

Kathleen Corbett, University of California, Berkeley: "The Stones of Purgatory: Rural Hispanic and Anglo-American Vernacular Architecture in Colorado's Purgatoire Canyon"

Rachel Leibowitz, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: "Building “The Center of the Navajo World”: Regionalism and Revival in Window Rock, Arizona"

II B. Evolving North American Landscapes

Kingston William Heath, University of Oregon: "Crossing the Vernacular Threshold: An Interpretive Theory for Assessing Regional Identity"**

Ian Doull, Parks Canada Agency: "The Evolved Cultural Landscape of Grand-Pre, Nova Scotia"

Ekaterini Vlahos, University of Colorado: "The Vernacular Landscape of Colorado's Medano-Zapata Ranch"

II C. Gendered Images and Actions

Ann McCleary, State University of West Georgia: "'Buzzing Centers in Action': Farm Women's Curb Markets in the 1930s"

Claire Tichi, University of California, Berkeley: "Home Alone: Single Women and Urban Domesticity in Postwar Magazines"

II D. Vernacular Globalization

Alison B. Snyder, University of Oregon: "The Next Vernacular: How Globalization has Affected the Turkish Village House and Household"

Swati Chattopadhyay, University of California, Santa Barbara: "Bourgeois Utopias': The rhetoric of globality in the "new suburban landscape of Calcutta"

Marcel Vellinga, Oxford Brookes University: "The Future of Vernacular Architecture Studies: A Dynamic and Dialectic Approach"*

Session III: 1:15-2:45 p.m.

III A. From Fieldwork to Theory 25th Anniversary Session**

Thomas Reinhart, Maryland Historical Trust: "Fieldwork: Scholarly Foundation or Quaint Tradition"

Gary Stanton, University of Mary Washington: "Cultural Landscapes and Folklore Studies: From Material Culture to Public Memory"

Susan Garfinkel, Library of Congress: "Toward a Renewed Performance Theory of Vernacular Architecture"

III B. Roadside America

William Littmann, University of California, Berkeley: "A Drive-Through Eden: Preservation and Tourism Along California's El Camino Real"

Eric Gollannek and David Ames, University of Delaware, Center for Historic Architecture and Design: "Changing Lanes on the Vernacular Strip: A Taxonomy of Commercial Properties Along the American Highway"

Peter Dedek, Texas State University, San Marcos: "Home Away from Home or Haven of Sin? The Evolution of the Motel Room in the West: 1920-1960" (10-minute work-in-progress)

James S. Griffith, University of Arizona, Southwest Folklore Center and Francisco Javier Manzo T.: "Roadside Chapels in Sonora"

III C. Mid-American Vernaculars in the Nineteenth Century

Ted Cavanagh, Dalhousie University: "The Franco-American and Multiethnic Roots of the Balloon Frame"

Kenneth Hafertepe, Baylor University: "German Rooms in Texas Houses: Room Usage and House Type in Fredericksburg, Texas"

Fred W. Peterson, University of Minnesota, Morris: "Standing Firm and Fitting In: A Comparison of Vernacular and Gothic Revival Houses"

III D. Multi-Cultural Urban Landscapes

Susan D.Bronson, Université de Montréal: "Moving On and Enhancing the Meaning of Place: Places of worship in multicultural Montréal"

Jason Alexander Hayter, University of California, Berkeley: "Santa Fe Nowhere: The Pop Culture Sense of Place and the City Different"

Arijit Sen, Ball State University: "Chaat Cafes: An Emerging Typology of Cosmopolitan American Public Spaces"

**These authors responded to the statement in the call for papers for presentations devoted to the history, theory, and practice of the VAF and vernacular architecture studies as part of the 25th-anniversary celebrations of the organization.