Feb 1, 2013
Architectural history professor
E.G. Daves Rossell has been helping members of the Pine Gardens Neighborhood Association get their Savannah, Georgia, neighborhood listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The effort, which has spanned more than a decade, will culminate with a review of their application by the national register at the state and national levels, with the goal of permanently adding the World War II-era neighborhood to the register. Read more about their
project in the Savannah Morning News.
Nov 1, 2012
Marisa (Gomez) Norman (B.F.A., architectural history, 2007, Savannah) will pursue an M.A. in architectural history at University of Texas in Austin, Texas.
Aug 7, 2012
Mark Davison (B.F.A., architectural history, 2005) recently moved to Tetouan, Morocco, and will be working with the regional tourism ministry to create English language promotional materials. His long-term goal is to open a heritage tourism/urban marketing firm.
Aug 7, 2012
Bradley Allen (B.F.A., architectural history, 2011) completed an internship with the Historic American Building Survey in Washington, D.C., where he documented the history of WPA-era projects. Allen is seeking a Master's of Architectural History degree at the University of Virginia.
Aug 6, 2012
Claudia Rosa-Lopez (M.F.A., architectural history, 2011) is serving as an architectural history lecturer in the architecture department of the Politechnic University of Puerto Rico in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Aug 6, 2012
Tyler Frazier (B.F.A., architectural history, 1998) earned a Ph.D. in geographical sciences and urban planning from the Zentrum fur Entwicklungsforschung (Center for Development Research) at the University of Bonn in Bonn, Germany.
Nov 18, 2011
Bradley Allen (B.F.A., architectural history, 2011) completed an internship with the Historic American Building Survey in Washington, D.C., where he documented the history of WPA-era projects. Allen is seeking a master's degree in architectural history at the University of Virginia.
Nov 18, 2011
Claudia Rosa-Lopez (M.F.A., architectural history, 2011) is serving as an architectural history lecturer in the architecture department of the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Oct 18, 2011
Patricia Kuhn (B.F.A., architectural history, 2000) published a chapter, "J. W. Marriott and the Development of the Motor Hotel," in Housing Washington: Two Centuries of Residential Development and Planning in the National Capital Area.
Oct 18, 2011
In fall 2010 Evan McWilliams (B.F.A., architectural history, 2008; M.A., architectural history, 2010) began his Ph.D. in art and architectural history at the University of York, where his research focuses on the study of churches of the late 19th and early 20th centuries whose designs were influenced by what are commonly known as the English Use liturgies.
Oct 18, 2011
Nathaniel Walker (M.A., architectural history, 2006) is pursuing his Ph.D. in architectural history at Brown University, and delivered a paper titled "A Slave in His Place: Racial Regulation and Segregation in the Savannah Squares" at the annual meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians in New Orleans on April 15, 2011. He is the first SCAD architectural history alumnus to present at this national conference.
Oct 18, 2011
Claudia Rosa-Lopez (M.F.A., architectural history, 2011) submitted a paper proposal to the 2012 Society of Architectural Historians annual meeting that led to her being invited to submit an essay to a book on sacred precincts.
Oct 18, 2011
Claudia Rosa-Lopez (M.F.A., architectural history, 2011) is serving as an architectural history lecturer in the architecture department at the Polytechnic University in Puerto Rico during fall 2011. She is assisting with the teaching of a survey class called History of Architectural Space.
Oct 18, 2011
Nathaniel Walker (M.A., architectural history, 2006) curated an exhibition, "Building Expectation: Past and Present Visions of the Architectural Future," at the David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University, running from Sept. 3-Nov. 6, 2011. The exhibition draws from Walker's dissertation research. Read the
press release.
Oct 14, 2011
Architectural history professor Celeste Guichard presented a paper, "Hadrian Panhellenios and the Crafting of Monument as Memory," at the Midwest Art History Society Conference in Omaha, Nebraska.
Oct 14, 2011
Architectural history professor Daves Rossell delivered a paper, "Ordinary Distinction: Pine Gardens and Mid-Century Savannah," at the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians (SESAH) 2010 Annual Meeting in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on Oct. 14, 2010.
Oct 14, 2011
Architectural history professor David Gobel presented a paper, "Modern Architecture and Levitation," at the annual meeting of the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians (SESAH) in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on Oct. 15, 2010.
Oct 14, 2011
Architectural history professor Thomas Gensheimer served as judge for the Berkeley Prize, an international essay contest for architecture students on a topic related to the social aspects of architectural design.
Oct 14, 2011
Architectural history professor Daves Rossell was reappointed to a four-year term as the architectural historian of the Georgia National Register Review Board, Historic Preservation Division, Georgia Department of Natural Resources, where he served from 2002-2006.
Oct 14, 2011
M.F.A. architectural history student Kelly Bressler delivered a paper, "Hierarchy of the Harem: Architectural Interpretation of Politics, Culture and Influence at the Harem of Topkapi Saray," at the annual meeting of the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in October 2010.
Oct 6, 2011
Architectural history department chair Robin Williams chaired the "Savannah" session at the annual meeting of the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians (SESAH) in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in October 2010.
Oct 3, 2011
Mark Davison (B.F.A., architectural history, 2005) moved to Tétouan, Morocco, in September 2011 to work with the regional tourism ministry to create English language promotional materials.
Sep 29, 2011
Architectural history professor Daves Rossell delivered a lecture for the Historic Savannah Foundation during its Tour of Homes on Sept. 28, 2010.
Sep 21, 2011
Architectural history professor David Gobel was an invited guest lecturer at the School of Architecture, University of Colorado, Denver, where he delivered a public lecture, "The Architecture of the Savannah Plan," on Sept. 20, 2010.
Sep 2, 2011
B.F.A. architectural history student Erin McMahon completed a month-long gardening internship in England in August 2011, spending three weeks at a private garden near Stratford and one week at the garden of Hampton Court. McMahon wishes to study landscape garden history following the completion of her degree at SCAD.
Sep 1, 2011
Architectural history professor Thomas Gensheimer delivered a paper, "Memory and Eternity: Tomb Architecture and the Medieval Swahili City" at the 2010 Annual Conference of the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians (SESAH) in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in October 2010. In light of the positive feedback he received at that presentation, he submitted an article on Swahili monumental tomb architecture for publication by Building and Landscapes: the Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum.
Sep 1, 2011
M.F.A. architectural history student Kimberly Barnard served as a research intern at the Western Reserve Historical Society in Ohio in summer 2011.
Sep 1, 2011
Bradley Allen (B.F.A., architectural history, 2011) began his Master's of Architectural History degree at the University of Virginia in fall 2011.
Aug 31, 2011
Architectural history professor Celeste Guichard was part of a symposium panel for the Pioneer Valley Romanists Forum in August 2010, held at the Joukowsky Institute of Archaeology at Brown University. The purpose of the symposium was to share and critique new research among a group of 15 Romanists.