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Paper Sessions, Business Meeting, Book Exhibits

Saturday, May 22nd

All Saturday daytime events will be held at the Key Bridge Marriott.

A complete set of 2010 Paper Session Abstracts is available for download.

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REGISTRATION

7:00 - 9:00 am
Potomac Ballroom Salons A&B (1st floor)

BREAKFAST

7:00 - 9:00 am

Continental Breakfast for All Registrants

Capital View Ballroom 1 (14th floor)

Speakers' Breakfast

Capital View Ballroom 2 Foyer (14th floor)

Sponsored by Center for American Places and VAF.
7:00 - 8:00 am

EXHIBITS

8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Exhibitors

Potomac Ballroom Salons A&B (1st floor)

Center for American Places
MIT Press
National Endowment for the Humanities
Scholar’s Choice
University of Tennessee Press
University of Virginia Press
W. W. Norton

VAF 30th Anniversary Exhibit

Potomac Ballroom Salons A&B (1st floor)

Features photos and memorabilia from past VAF conferences.

EARLY MORNING PAPER SESSIONS

8:30 - 10:00 am

Session 1: Interpreting Vernacular Architecture of the Early Mid-Atlantic

Georgetown Room (lower level)

CHAIR: Gabrielle M. Lanier

Catharine Dann Roeber
"Big City Dreams in a 'Greene Country Towne': Samuel Carpenter and Management of the Philadelphia Waterfront, 1683-1714"

Janet L. Sheridan
"Colonial Timber Framing in Southwestern New Jersey: The Cultural Implications of Structural Logic"

Ryan K. Smith
"Building Stories: Narrative Prospects for Vernacular Architecture Studies"

Session 2: Making the Modern Home

Francis Scott Key Room (lower level)

CHAIR: Sandy Isenstadt

Anne A. Grady
"Mid-Century Modernism in Lexington, Massachusetts: Four Planned Communities"

Patrick Lee Lucas
"Modernism at Home: Edward Loewenstein + Architectural Innovation in Greensboro, North Carolina, 1946-1970"

Georgia Lindsay
"'Exactly What We Wanted': A Case Study in Consumers as Designers of the Postwar Suburban Home"

Session 3: Tourism and the Interpreted Landscape

Potomac Ballroom Salon D (1st floor)

CHAIR: Joseph Sciorra

Shelley Hornstein
"Wishing You Were Here: Curating Memories of the Holy Land in Picture Postcards"

Adam Mandelman
"Neglected Natives: Resort Landscapes Along Hawai'i's Ala Kahakai National Historic Trail"

Gina Haney
"Consuming the Tibetan Landscape: One-Stop Shopping in the Ganzi Autonomous Tibetan Prefecture"

LATE MORNING PAPER SESSIONS

10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Session 4: Organizing the Landscape

Georgetown Room (lower level)

CHAIR: Daves Rossell

Thomas Carter and Gary Stanton
"Ecumenical America: The Parish Landscape of German Settlements in Indiana's Whitewater River Valley, 1830-1860"

Paula Lupkin
"Beer: A Cultural Landscape"

Christopher Baas
"Concrete in the Steel City: The Initial Experiment to Construct Thomas Edison's Concrete House for the Working Man"

Session 5: Marketing Modernism

Francis Scott Key Room (lower level)

CHAIR: Beth L. Savage

David S. Rotenstein
"'The Greatest Publicity Stunt Available to Developers': Washington's 1939 World's Fair Home"

Christine G. O'Malley
"From Fifth Avenue to the Suburbs: The Creation of the Lord & Taylor Suburban Department Store"

Ioana Teodorescu
"The Home of a 'Three-Bedroom' Family: Transformations in Canadian Postwar Small House Design"

Session 6: The Real and Ideal Home in America

Potomac Ballroom Salon C (1st floor)

CHAIR: Janet W. Foster

Nancy A. Holst
"Mid-Nineteenth-Century House Pattern-Book Ideals and Suburban Reality in Germantown, Pennsylvania"

Jennifer Sale Crane
"Postwar Prefabricated Homes in the Washington, D.C. Suburbs"

Erin Cunningham
"'Design for Living': The Henry Street Settlement and the Development of a Public Housing Vernacular"

Session 7: Children's Space for Work and Play

Potomac Ballroom Salon D (1st floor)

CHAIR: Marvin Brown

Steven Moffson
"The Short Life of Modern Schools in African-American Communities in Georgia, 1952-1970"

Dale Allen Gyure
"'Casual' Schools in the 1950s and the Impact of 'Child-Centered' Culture"

Nina Antonetti
"Cornelia Hahn Oberlander at Play: Six Decades of Playground Design"

LUNCH AND LUNCHTIME MEETINGS

12:00 - 1:30 pm

Box lunch by pre-registration, or lunch on your own.
Pick up reserved box lunches in Potomac Ballroom Salons A&B (1st floor).

Buildings & Landscapes Prospective Author Meeting

Lincoln Room (3rd floor)

12:00 - 12:30 pm

VAF Annual Business Meeting with 2011 Jamaica Preview

Potomac Ballroom Salons C&D (1st floor)

(bring your lunch)
12:30 - 1:15 pm

EARLY AFTERNOON PAPER SESSIONS

1:30 - 3:00 pm

Session 8: Slavery and Freedom

Georgetown Room (lower level)

CHAIR: Clifton Ellis

Jill Baskin
"Race and Space at George Washington's Mount Vernon"

Maurie D. McInnis
"Mapping Richmond's Slave Trade"

Paige Wagoner
"Constructing Free Identity: The Invention and Adaptation of the Charleston Freedman's Cottage"

Session 9: Architecture and Ideology

Francis Scott Key Room (lower level)

CHAIR: Arijit Sen

Steven E. Harris
"The Soviet Union's Path to Minimum Living Space and the Legacy of 19th Century Housing Reform in Europe"

Andrew Friedman
"U. S. Geopolitics as Design Agent: The Global Postcolonial Vernacular in Reston, Virginia"

Andrea Renner
"Good Houses Make Good Neighbors: U.S. Housing Aid in Guatemala During the Cold War"

Session 10: Contested Preservation

Potomac Ballroom Salon C (1st floor)

CHAIR: Lauren Weiss Bricker

Nate Millington
"Envisioning Detroit: The Michigan Central Station and the Politics of Representation"

Timothy Davis
"Mainstreet vs. The Miracle Mile: Competing Visions of Community Identity on U. S. Route 1 in Hyattsville, MD"

James Buckley
"A Modern(ist) Dilemma: Preserving Postwar Libraries in San Francisco"

Session 11: Architects and Work: Design and Redesign

Potomac Ballroom Salon D (1st floor)

CHAIR: Marta Gutman

Sarah J. Boykin
"Southern Homes & Plan Books: The Architectural Legacy of Leila Ross Wilburn"

Timothy T. Orwig
"Building the 'New Old House': The Restoration Architectures of Joseph Everett Chandler"

Katherine Miller
"'Well-Mannered' Renovations in Georgetown: Hugh Newell Jacobsen's Historic Preservation"

LATE AFTERNOON PAPER SESSIONS

3:30 - 5:00 pm

Session 12: Ethnography of the Home

Georgetown Room (lower level)

CHAIR: Kingston Heath

Thomas C. Hubka
"Houses Without Names: Architectural Nomenclature and the Classification of America's Common Houses"

Dorothy Stern
"Looking Inside the Everyday: Canadian Prairie Farmhouse Design and the Meaning of Home"

Wei (Windy) Zhao
"Behind the 'Invariable' Style: The Development of Residential Architecture in Yanxia Village, Zhejiang Province, China"

Session 13: A Case for a Regionalist View of Suburbia

Francis Scott Key Room (lower level)

CHAIR: Katherine Solomonson

Daina Penkiunas
"Madison's University Hill Farms—A Mid-Century Planned Community"

Anna Andrzejewski and Adam Childers
"The Builder's Wright: Marshall Erdman's Understanding of Frank Lloyd Wright's Modernism in Madison, Wisconsin"

Elizabeth Hooper-Lane
"Early American Modernism: Regionalism or Kitsch?"

Session 14: Race, Class, and Neighborhood

Potomac Ballroom Salon D (1st floor)

CHAIR: Anne Krulikowski

Tamsen Anderson
"Developing Elite Housing in the Industrial Suburb of East Chicago, Indiana: A Comparison of Marktown and the Washington Park Subdivision"

Justin Maher
"Rebuilding Chocolate City: The Appropriation of Race in the Stalled Development of Washington, D.C."

Amber N. Wiley
"Loss of Status: Planning and Preservation in LeDroit Park"

LATE AFTERNOON MEETINGS

Buildings & Landscapes Editorial Board Meeting

Lincoln Room (3rd floor)

5:00 pm

30TH ANNIVERSARY AWARDS BANQUET

7:00 - 11:00 pm
Farmers & Fishers
Washington Harbour Complex (fountain level)
3000 K Street, NW, Georgetown

Transportation on your own. Walking encouraged (20 minute walk from hotel through Georgetown), but taxis readily available.