Please send notices, announcements, and queries to Thaisa Way : tway@u.washington.edu

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

LANDSCAPE CHAPTER SYMPOSIUM: LANDSCAPES IN TIME
(click to download program)
18 April 2012, Detroit
Susan Herrington and Sonja Duempelmann, symposium chairs and moderators
Areas of scholarship will feature Representing Time in Landscapes; Historiography's Role, Time Travesl and Mythological Landscapes; Landscapes, Nature, and Design in time; and Landscapes and Perceptions of Time. Speakers include Anita Berrizbeitia, Margot K. Lystra, D. Fairchild Ruggles, Stephen Whiteman, Nurit Lissovsky, Elizabeth Kryder-Reid, Robert E. Grese, Kathleen John-Alder, Nora Wendle (delete the "e" at the end), and Janike Kampevold Larsen. Abstracts available here

The Foundation for Landscape Studies
is pleased to announce two prizes for publications on landscape and garden design for 2012.
Please see: www.foundationforlandscapestudies.com.
The John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize will be awarded to recent books that have made a significant contribution to the study and understanding of garden history and landscape design.
The David R. Coffin Publication Grant will support the research and publication of a book in the field of landscape studies.
The application deadline for each award is December 1, 2011.
Please submit all inquiries to: Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, President Foundation for Landscape Studies 7 West 81st Street New York, NY 10024 rogerseb@aol.com

CONFERENCES/ SYMPOSIA

Second Wave of Modernism II: Landscape Complexity and Transformation

Organized by The Cultural Landscape Foundation At the Museum of Modern Art, New York City
In recent years, there has been an accelerating attitudinal shift: a departure away from the modernist’s tabula rasa exemplified at varying scales by icons such as Philip Johnson’s Beck House in Dallas and the Lincoln Center Campus in New York. Today designers are returning to modernist sites with new motivations, attempting to balance the complex values of natural and cultural systems. To investigate this significant evolution of professional practice, three groups of thematic presentations have been assembled that will collectively explore landscape transformations at residential, urban and metropolitan scales. The conference follows and continues dialogs initiated at the sold-out Wave of Modernism conference convened in Chicago in 2008. http://tclf.org/sites/default/files/microsites/secondwave2/index.html

Food and the City, Annual symposium at Dumbarton Oaks for the 2011-12 academic year will be held at Dumbarton Oaks on Friday and Saturday May 4-5, 2012.

Organized by Senior Fellow Dorothée Imbert (Washington University, St. Louis), it will focus on the intricate interrelationships among landscape, urban context, and food production, which are central to the current debate on sustainability. The symposium will explore the links between culture and cultivation, with particular respect to the modern era and urbanization schemes that engaged the production of food, either as a means to achieve self-sufficiency, or as part of a ruralist perspective. As the city displaced food production further from its center, the relationship between living, working, and eating became more abstract.

Today, this relationship is tested across planning and community design schemes: American suburban developments include agricultural land as a conservation measure and a nostalgic nod to a pre-agribusiness countryside; European designers focus on the suburban-rural interface to develop a new type of productive landscape, one performing simultaneously as an open space system and an agricultural laboratory; and in cities like Kampala, Uganda, or Rosario, Argentina, urban agriculture is part of a participatory design process that integrates housing programs. This symposium will provide a critical historical framework for today’s urban agriculture by discussing the multiple scales, ideologies, and contexts of productive landscapes from allotment gardens to regional plans, with a particular focus on the efforts of modern and early-modern landscape architects, garden designers, and architects/planners to reconcile the demands of food production and urbanization.
For further information, please contact Jane Padelford at Landscape@doaks.org or 202-339-6460

CALL FOR PAPERS and RESEARCH

SAH Annual Meeting 2013 - Session Proposals due Jan 1

Call for Session Proposals: 2013 SAH Annual Meeting At its 2013 annual meeting in Buffalo, New York, the Society of Architectural Historians will offer seven concurrent paper sessions. If you have More>>.

CFP: "Islamic and Renaissance Gardens: A Case for Mutual Influence?"
2012 European Architectural History Network (EAHN)
Brussels, Belgium (May 31, 2012-June 3, 2012)
In the 16th century, political and economic engagements between Renaissance Europe and the Islamic world opened new pathways for cultural exchange. Trade, diplomacy and tourism vastly enhanced Europeans’ knowledge of Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal urban design and architectural practice. As travel narratives from the period attest, Europeans reported on the cities, gardens, and buildings with which they came into contact, often characterizing them as sites of social interaction. Some of the accounts even included drawings and sketches of Islamic cities and gardens, which captured the attention of European cultural elites. Intellectual and artistic exchanges facilitated by merchants, tourists, and missionaries also added to the reciprocal flow of architectural ideas and concepts.

During this period, some simultaneous changes occurred in garden design in Europe and Persia. The role of gardens in cities grew in prominence, with a gradual shift in emphasis from gardens for the private sphere to an increasingly public function. As a natural consequence of this shift, gardens began to serve as the core of new urban plans and designs. This phenomenon not only established a new relationship between the garden and city, but also emphasized the garden pavilion or villa as the focal point. Are such concurrent developments in European and Islamic gardens the result of universal political and social changes in both regions or could these garden design traditions mutually have influenced one another? The papers in this panel can study such potential influences by comparing the meanings and forms of gardens in the Islamic world to those in Europe or by exploring historical documents to validate mutual influence in garden design. The papers can also compare and contrast between the function of the palace or pavilions in relation to the garden in Islamic cultures and the villa in relation to the garden in European cultures.

Please send paper proposals and short CVs by September 30, 2011 to Mohammad Gharipour,mohammad@gatech.edu; and to Stephen Caffey,
scaffey@arch.tamu.edu

Celebrate Cultural Landscapes of Diversity Challenge
You are hereby challenged to complete at least one HALS short format history to increase awareness of the role of various cultural groups in shaping the American landscape. Download a flier, template, instructions, guidelines, and ideas. Sponsored by HALS, cash prizes will be awarded to the top three submissions. Results will be announced at the San Diego, CA October 2011 ASLA Annual Meeting and Expo during the HALS Subcommittee Meeting of the Historic Preservation Professional Practice Network. The deadline for submissions is July 31, 2011.

The International Journal of Islamic Architecture (IJIA)
For information and for guidelines on submission please visit the IJIA website: www.intellectbooks.com/journals/.
Email the editors at ijia@intellectbooks.com for details.

Journal of Design History
Archives, Collections and Curatorship Feature
The Journal of Design History welcomes contributions that introduce and explore aspects of a design archive, collection, or exhibition as a resource for design historical research. These are published in our Archives, Collections, and Curatorship (AC&C) feature. Some authors may wish to take a critical perspective, i.e. not simply describing the strengths, but also analysing weaknesses of an archive or collection or uncovering institutional biases and historical gaps and suggesting ways of resolving these issues. Others may wish to reflect on the practice of collecting, archiving, and doing research in archives or collections. Archives and collections can include those held by museums, libraries, businesses, educational institutions, and other organizations. The resources discussed may be accessed on site or via images on the Web. The feature also welcomes essays on the display of design collections within exhibitions. These might take the form of an exhibition review or reflection on the practice of design display and curatorship. We welcome contributions from archivists, curators, designers, historians, museum professionals, and advanced graduate students. Submissions should be between 2500 and 4500 words in length, with up to eight images in colour or black-and-white, and provide information on how to access the archive, collection, or exhibition. Contributions are subject to a double-blind review process. Further guidance to authors can be found at the Journal’s online portal at http://jdh.oxfordjournals.org/ under Instructions to Authors. Please send questions to Dr Regina Lee Blaszczyk (Reggie.Blaszczyk@gmail.com), editor of the Archives, Collections, and Curatorship feature, Journal of Design History, Oxford University Press.

The Garden History Society : GHS Essay Prize
http://www.gardenhistorysociety.org/
A prize is offered for an essay of 5000 - 6000 words on any aspect of garden history. The competition is intended to encourage vibrant, scholarly writing and new research, especially by those who have not yet had their work published.
Entries are welcomed from Authors with bona fide student status at a university or other recognised institution of further education. Students registered on courses in the academic year, but graduating before the closing date, are still eligible for entry. Applicants do not have to be members of the Garden History Society. There are no restrictions on the subject matter except that it must be relevant to garden history; previous winning essays have been on The Fountain of the Three Rainbows at Wilton House; The Garden of the Masque of Flowers, 1614 and The Role of Landscape in Relation to the Treatment of Mental Illness in the early 19thC Asylum.The prize will consist of a cash sum of £250 plus free membership of the GHS for one year. The winning entry will be considered for publication in Garden History.The judging panel will consists of the Editor of Garden History and members of the Garden History Society’s Education and Publication Committee. The prize will be presented in Summer. Entries must be received by 1 March, and be accompanied by an entry form. More details can be found in the Rules for Submission

EXHIBITS

Environmental Design Library
210 Wurster Hall, University of California, Berkeley
 Information, Hours, Directions: 510-642-4818
www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/hours.html

The National Peace Garden
June 17- Oct 12, 2011
The United States Congress authorized a memorial to peace in 1987 to occupy a 12-acre site on Hanes Point in  Washington, DC --one of the last major monument sites available in the capital. The project was originated by a former Berkeley English teacher who convinced then-President Ronald Reagan to endorse the concept. Her idea was for a visually striking garden complex that would call attention to the need to find peaceful solutions to world and national conflict. A design competition was conducted under a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. 901 architects and planners submitted proposals for the garden, which was intended to rival the visual impact of the Vietnam War Memorial. Construction of the National Peace Garden, financed by private donations, was expected to begin in 1992 at a cost of about $12 million.  Sadly, the funds were never raised and the garden was not constructed. The exhibit will showcase the competition through drawings and documents. In addition, proposals for all 901 entries will be available through rotating digital images.

GRANTS AND AWARDS

The Foundation for Landscape Studies     
The David R. Coffin Publication Grant to independent and university presses and publishers of books specifically related to garden history and landscape studies.
The John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize to be awarded to a book that has made a significant contribution to the study and understanding of garden history and landscape studies.

Applications and books must be sent to each of three jury member (inquire as to annual deadline)
To receive the mailing addresses of the jury members or address inquiries, contact:
Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, President
Foundation for Landscape Studies
7 West 81st Street
New York, NY 10024
For information about eligibility, go to:
www.foundationforlandscapestudies.org=

Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation
The Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation (BWAF) offers funding to individuals and institutions to support innovative projects that advance the study and expand the recognition of women in architecture and related professions, and that lead to the dissemination of this knowledge to professional and public audiences alike. BWAF gives support in particular to research or activities that focus on the contributions of women architects, designers, urban planners, as well as architectural historians and critics, active in the United States during the period 1950-1980. Grant funding is divided into two categories: Fellowships of up to $10,000 for Scholarly Research, Publication, Exhibition, or Documentary in film or other media; and, Grants of up to $3000 for Honoraria to Plenary Session Speakers at professional meetings, conferences, or symposia whose focus matches the mission of the BWAF; and, Travel Grants of up to $1500 for research trips or professional conferences at which the recipient will be making a presentation related to the purpose of the BWAF.
http://www.bwaf.org/grants.html

The Enid A. Haupt Fellowship in Horticulture
This fellowship, made possible by a generous endowment from Enid A. Haupt, is designed to encourage the study of, and professions in, the field of horticulture. Applicants must be enrolled in a graduate program seeking (or have received) their Master's or Ph.D. in horticulture, botany, landscape architecture or a related field. Applicants whose native language is not English are expected to have the ability to write and converse fluently in English. This fellowship is full-time, in residence, and available for 12 to 24 months. The candidate is eligible for stipend and research allowances. Tenure will begin between June 1st and October 1st. Deadline: April 1st (postmark) Contact: Horticulture Services Division Office of Facilities Management and Reliability Smithsonian Institution MRC 420 P.O. Box 37012 A&I Building 2282 Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Tel: 202-633-9239 Fax: 202-786-2026 Application deadline is April 1, and successful applicants will be notified by May
http://www.si.edu/ofg/fell.htm .

Fullbright Scholars Program
Applications continue to be accepted for awards for lecturing or combined lecturing/ research awards during the academic year, including awards in Malaysia (Islamic architecture) or Tunisia. Faculty in landscape architevture may apply not only for awards specifi cally in their field, but also for one of the many “All Discipline” awards open to any field.
Visit our website at http://www.cies.org

Winterthur Research Resources and Academic Programs.
Three categories of fellowships are available: * NEH Fellowships * McNeil Dissertation Fellowships * Winterthur Research Fellowships The NEH and McNeil fellowships are long-term fellowships (4 months to one year). The short-term Winterthur Research Fellowships generally fund one month of study. Winterthur also co-sponsors the Hagley-Winterthur Fellowship for scholars wishing to pursue research at both Winterthur and Hagley Museum & Library. Hagley Museum administers this fellowship; for more information and application materials, please visit www.hagley.org. National Endowment for the Humanties Fellowships Winterthur participates in an NEH funded program, Fellowships at Independent Research Institutions. This fellowship is offered to scholars pursuing advanced research and may not be used in the pursuit of a degree. NEH awards are for four to twelve months, at stipends of up to $40,000 but generally $3,333 per month. NEH applicants must be U.S. citizens or residents for three years prior to application. This fellowship may be used to revise a dissertation for publication, but the doctorate must be in hand at the time the fellowship commences. Lois F. McNeil Dissertation Fellowships Winterthur awards four semesters of McNeil funding each year, at $7,000 per semester. Applicants may apply for one semester or for the academic year. This fellowship is intended to support dissertation research in Winterthur's collections and so is particularly appropriate for candidates in the earier stages of a project. Winterthur Research FellowshipsWe award approximately 15 short-term fellowships each year at $1,500 per month. This is our most general category of fellowship, open to all candidates, including those in pursuit of a graduate degree, who can demonstrate a specific need for research in our collections. Applicants need not apply for a specific named fellowship, but we do designate certain awards as: Faith Andrews Fellowships--for the study of Shaker life and material culture Robert Lee Gill Fellowships--for research on American decorative arts, painting, architecture, or historic preservation Dwight P. Lanmon Fellowships--for the study of glass and ceramics
http://www.winterthur.org/research/fellowship.asp?sub=fellowships_avail

Mid-Career Grant Program
The James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation will award a research grant up to $25,000 to mid­career professionals who have an advanced or professional degree and at least 10 years experience in historic preservation or related fields, including architecture, landscape architecture, architectural conservation, urban design, environmental planning, archaeology, architectural history, and the decorative arts. Additional smaller grants, up to $10,000, are made at the discretion of the Trustees. The grants are intended to support projects of innovative original research or creative design that advance the practice of historic preservation in the U.S. These grants may be partially supported through the generosity of the Kress Foundation.
Please see our web site at www.fitchfoundation.org for details or contact Erin Tobin, Executive Director, at info@fitchfoundation.org.
The application deadline is in September- check the website (postmarked)