Program
“The Whiteness of 19th Century American Architecture” is a one-day symposium in architectural history organized by the School of Architecture and Planning at the University at Buffalo. This symposium is an outgrowth of the Race + Modern Architecture Project, an interdisciplinary workshop on the racial discourses of western architectural history from the Enlightenment to the present.
12 pm - 4 pm
Opening keynote/ presentations (403 Hayes Hall, UB South Campus)
6 pm
Closing keynote (Greatbatch Pavilion, Martin House, 143 Jewett Parkway, Buffalo)
Introduction - 12:00pm
Opening Keynote Lecture - 12:15pm
Building Race and Nation: Slavery and Antebellum American Civic Architecture
Mabel O. Wilson - Professor of Architecture, Columbia GSAPP
Paper Presentations - 1:30 - 4:00 pm
"Envy of the Rich": Labor, Race, and Architecture in Leopold Eidlitz's New York
Kathryn Holliday - Associate Professor of Art History, University of Texas at Arlington
Frank Lloyd Wright, White Labor and the Art and Craft of the Machine
Joanna Merwood-Salisbury - Associate Dean and Professor of Architecture, Victoria University of Wellington
An Aesthetic Imperialism: Race, Politics, and the Visual Economy of Maybeck’s East Bay Style
Charles L. Davis II - Assistant Professor of Architecture History, University at Buffalo, SUNY
Closed Workshop for Presenters - 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Closing Keynote Lecture - 6:00 pm
Eleanor and Wilson Greatbatch Pavilion
Martin House
143 Jewett Parkway
Buffalo, NY 14214
Where Was Jim Crow? Living in Wright’s America
Dianne Harris - Senior Program Officer, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation