ENG 885: The Nonhuman Turn
This seminar takes up the “nonhuman turn” that has been emerging in the arts, humanities, and social sciences over the past few decades. Intensifying in the 21st century, this nonhuman turn can be traced to a variety of different intellectual and theoretical developments from the last decades of the 20th century: actor-network theory, particularly Bruno Latour’s career-long project to articulate technical mediation, nonhuman agency, and the politics of things; affect theory, both in its philosophical and psychological manifestations and as it has been mobilized by queer theory; animal studies as developed in the work of Donna Haraway, projects for animal rights, and a more general critique of speciesism; the assemblage theory of Gilles Deleuze, Manuel DeLanda, Latour, and others; new brain sciences like neuroscience, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence; new media theory, especially as it has paid close attention to technical networks, material interfaces, and computational analysis; the new materialism in feminism, philosophy, and marxism; varieties of speculative realism like object-oriented philosophy, vitalism, and panpsychism; or systems theory in its social, technical, and ecological manifestations. Such varied analytical and theoretical formations obviously diverge and disagree in many of their aims, objects, and methodologies. But they are all of a piece in taking up aspects of the nonhuman as critical to the future of 21st century studies in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
Running roughly parallel to this nonhuman turn in the past few decades has been the “posthuman turn” articulated by such important theoretical works as Katherine Hayles’s How We Became Posthuman and Cary Wolfe’s What Is Posthumanism? Thinking beyond the human, as posthumanism is sometimes characterized, clearly provides one compelling model for 21st century studies. But the relation between posthumanism and humanism, like that of postmodernism to modernism, can sometimes seem as much like a repetition of the same as the emergence of something different. Thus one of the questions that this seminar will take up is the relation between posthumanism and the nonhuman turn, especially the ways in which taking the nonhuman as a matter of critical, artistic, and scholarly concern might differ from, as well as overlap with, the aims of posthumanism.
The seminar will operate as well as preparation for the C21 spring conference on “The Nonhuman Turn in 21st Century Studies.” Several of the readings will be from scholars who have been invited to speak at the conference, which will provide an excellent opportunity for seminarians to engage with many of the issues that will be debated at the conference in May. In addition to smaller writing assignments throughout the semester, students will each write a seminar paper relating some elements of the nonhuman turn to their own areas of interest in their graduate research.
Richard Grusin
Director
Center for 21st Century Studies
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Curtin Hall 929
P.O. Box 413
Milwaukee, WI 53211
grusin@uwm.edu
www.C21.uwm.edu
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Friday, July 22, 2011
New BLC Course
City, Environment, and Nature
Geography 905
Fall 2011
Instructor: Ryan Holifield
Brief course description:
The purpose of this seminar is to introduce graduate students to different ways of conceptualizing, theorizing, and researching urban environments and urban natures. Through close, intensive readings of a series of books and articles, we will examine several different approaches to urban ecology, including approaches grounded in systems theory, environmental history, radical urban political ecology, and actor-network theory. In the process, we'll consider a wide range of substantive themes: urban ecosystems, natural resources, environmental justice, sustainable cities, health risks and hazards, and urban infrastructures, just to name a few. This seminar will be of potential interest to students in geography, urban studies, urban planning, architecture, anthropology, history, sociology, urban education, biological sciences, and others interested in the relationships between cities and nature or the environment.
Most of our readings will be available via D2L, but we will also read all or most of three required books, all available as inexpensive paperbacks at the UWM Bookstore or through online vendors:
Cronon, William. Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West.
Gandy, Matthew. Concrete and Clay: Reworking Nature in New York City.
Robbins, Paul. Lawn People: How Grasses, Weeds, and Chemicals Make Us Who We Are.
The syllabus and full reading list for this new seminar is under construction. For more information, please contact the instructor at the following email address: holifiel@uwm.edu.
Geography 905
Fall 2011
Instructor: Ryan Holifield
Brief course description:
The purpose of this seminar is to introduce graduate students to different ways of conceptualizing, theorizing, and researching urban environments and urban natures. Through close, intensive readings of a series of books and articles, we will examine several different approaches to urban ecology, including approaches grounded in systems theory, environmental history, radical urban political ecology, and actor-network theory. In the process, we'll consider a wide range of substantive themes: urban ecosystems, natural resources, environmental justice, sustainable cities, health risks and hazards, and urban infrastructures, just to name a few. This seminar will be of potential interest to students in geography, urban studies, urban planning, architecture, anthropology, history, sociology, urban education, biological sciences, and others interested in the relationships between cities and nature or the environment.
Most of our readings will be available via D2L, but we will also read all or most of three required books, all available as inexpensive paperbacks at the UWM Bookstore or through online vendors:
Cronon, William. Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West.
Gandy, Matthew. Concrete and Clay: Reworking Nature in New York City.
Robbins, Paul. Lawn People: How Grasses, Weeds, and Chemicals Make Us Who We Are.
The syllabus and full reading list for this new seminar is under construction. For more information, please contact the instructor at the following email address: holifiel@uwm.edu.
Monday, July 18, 2011
CFP VAF 2012 IN MADISON
Call for Papers for VAF 2012 Annual Meeting in Madison, Wisconsin
The Vernacular Architecture Forum invites paper proposals for its Annual Meeting in Madison, Wisconsin, June 6-10, 2012. Papers may address vernacular and everyday buildings, sites, or cultural landscapes worldwide. Submissions on all vernacular topics are welcome, but we encourage papers that explore topics related to the following conference themes: the relationship between rural landscapes and regional urban centers; placemaking as it pertains to the relationship between work and home; regional trends in modernism (particularly in the Upper Midwest); ethnicity and heritage preservation; and evolution of Midwestern rural buildings and landscapes. We particularly welcome papers that explore the relationship of environmental history and cultural landscapes around these themes. Papers should be twenty minutes in length, although proposals for complete sessions, roundtable discussions, or other innovative means that facilitate scholarly discourse are also welcome.
Proposals must be one page, fewer than 400 words, and include paper title, author's name, and email address. You may include up to two images with your submission. Please state clearly the argument of the paper and explain the methodology and content. Attach a one-page CV to your proposal submission. The deadline for proposals is September 12, 2011.
Presenters must deliver their papers in person and be VAF members at the time of the conference. Speakers who do not register for the conference by April 1, 2012 will be withdrawn. Please do not submit an abstract if you are not committed to attending the papers session on Saturday June 9. There may be limited financial assistance, in the form of Presenter’s Fellowships, to offset registration costs to students and recent graduates.
Electronic submissions of proposals and CVs in Word format are preferred. Please send email proposals to Andrew Dolkart at asd3@columbia.edu or hard copies to:
Andrew Dolkart:
Columbia University School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
413 Avery Hall
New York, NY 10027
For general information about the Madison conference, please contact:
Anna Vemer Andrzejewski
Department of Art History & the Buildings-Landscapes Cultures Program
University of Wisconsin-Madison
avandrzejews@wisc.edu
The Vernacular Architecture Forum invites paper proposals for its Annual Meeting in Madison, Wisconsin, June 6-10, 2012. Papers may address vernacular and everyday buildings, sites, or cultural landscapes worldwide. Submissions on all vernacular topics are welcome, but we encourage papers that explore topics related to the following conference themes: the relationship between rural landscapes and regional urban centers; placemaking as it pertains to the relationship between work and home; regional trends in modernism (particularly in the Upper Midwest); ethnicity and heritage preservation; and evolution of Midwestern rural buildings and landscapes. We particularly welcome papers that explore the relationship of environmental history and cultural landscapes around these themes. Papers should be twenty minutes in length, although proposals for complete sessions, roundtable discussions, or other innovative means that facilitate scholarly discourse are also welcome.
Proposals must be one page, fewer than 400 words, and include paper title, author's name, and email address. You may include up to two images with your submission. Please state clearly the argument of the paper and explain the methodology and content. Attach a one-page CV to your proposal submission. The deadline for proposals is September 12, 2011.
Presenters must deliver their papers in person and be VAF members at the time of the conference. Speakers who do not register for the conference by April 1, 2012 will be withdrawn. Please do not submit an abstract if you are not committed to attending the papers session on Saturday June 9. There may be limited financial assistance, in the form of Presenter’s Fellowships, to offset registration costs to students and recent graduates.
Electronic submissions of proposals and CVs in Word format are preferred. Please send email proposals to Andrew Dolkart at asd3@columbia.edu or hard copies to:
Andrew Dolkart:
Columbia University School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
413 Avery Hall
New York, NY 10027
For general information about the Madison conference, please contact:
Anna Vemer Andrzejewski
Department of Art History & the Buildings-Landscapes Cultures Program
University of Wisconsin-Madison
avandrzejews@wisc.edu
Saturday, July 16, 2011
Harry Van Oudenallen, 1944- 2011
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
On Saturday morning June 18, 2011-Harry, aged 67, slipped peacefully away at home, after a short battle with cancer, surrounded by his family. Harry was a senior professor and scholar associated with the Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures area. The faculty and students at BLC remember him for his steadfast support and leadership. He led the urban rebuilding and New Orleans effort as part of the BLC curriculum.
Born in Den Hague, Netherlands in 1944, he moved two years later to Singapore, spent the next four years in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and finally moved to Long Island, New York where he graduated from Bethpage HS in 1962. Harry received his BA from Harvard College in 1966, and a Masters Equivalent in Architecture from the University of Oregon in 1971. Unique, absolutely-while at Harvard he played football, and was the first left footed soccer style punter.
His career, service and projects would keep Harry smiling and traveling for the rest of his life. He joined the faculty at the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at UWM in 1979, and from the very start excelled as a teacher. There are hundreds of students who were profoundly influenced and mentored by Harry. Among the awards he won in his career, perhaps the ones he was most proud of were, the UWM Undergraduate Teaching Award and the ACSA Distinguished Professor Award. He was, this year, elected by his peers at the ACSA to serve as the Vice Chancellor of this distinguished group of scholars and teachers.
Harry was a contagiously likable person and will be remembered for his enormous smile, and rich laughter. He was, though, a talented and skilled professional with a substantial career. He was a founding member, with Nick Cascarano, in 1996 of Architectura, Inc., an award winning firm that produced outstanding architectural designs. He won many awards-winning or placing in design competitions which included the: Milwaukee Lakefront National Competition, Milwaukee Performing Arts Center Master Plan Competition, Merit Hall Competition, Timber Holdings Competition, Pier Wisconsin Competition, Newark Visitor Center Competition, Denver Public Market Competition, and the Atlantic City Holocaust Memorial.
We will remember you Harry and we will strive at BLC to reach the standards that you expected of us.
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
NEW UWM COURSES FOR FALL 2011
Title: Hist 700 Intro to Public History
Professor: Jasmine Alinder, Associate Professor and Co-Coordinator of Public History
Seminar on community history, relations between academic history and public history, and uses of material culture and oral history.
Title: Art History 370 Trends in Contemporary Architecture TR 11:00-12:15 MIT 195
Professor: Jennifer Johung, Assistant Professor, Art History
This course examines current trends in architectural practice, focusing on the materiality and temporality of organic, animate, portable, interactive, sustainable and bio-mimetic structures within performative, digital, and virtual architectures. Today, buildings are no longer only conceived as objects, but are designed and constructed according to what they do on site or how they perform in response to their users’ needs. Through a selection of contemporary case studies, we will explore a building’s flexible relationship to its physical or digital environment while analyzing its bodily-like movement and responsiveness to both real and virtual users.
Title: Geography 905: City, Environment, and Nature
Professor: Ryan Holifield, Assistant Professor, Geography
The purpose of this seminar is to introduce graduate students to different ways of conceptualizing, theorizing, and researching urban environments and urban natures. Through close, intensive readings of a series of books and articles, we will examine several different approaches to urban ecology, including approaches grounded in systems theory, environmental history, radical urban political ecology, and actor-network theory. In the process, we'll consider a wide range of substantive themes: urban ecosystems, natural resources, environmental justice, sustainable cities, health risks and hazards, and urban infrastructures, just to name a few. This seminar will be of potential interest to students in geography, urban studies, urban planning, architecture, anthropology, history, sociology, urban education, biological sciences, and others interested in the relationships between cities and nature or the environment.
Professor: Jasmine Alinder, Associate Professor and Co-Coordinator of Public History
Seminar on community history, relations between academic history and public history, and uses of material culture and oral history.
Title: Art History 370 Trends in Contemporary Architecture TR 11:00-12:15 MIT 195
Professor: Jennifer Johung, Assistant Professor, Art History
This course examines current trends in architectural practice, focusing on the materiality and temporality of organic, animate, portable, interactive, sustainable and bio-mimetic structures within performative, digital, and virtual architectures. Today, buildings are no longer only conceived as objects, but are designed and constructed according to what they do on site or how they perform in response to their users’ needs. Through a selection of contemporary case studies, we will explore a building’s flexible relationship to its physical or digital environment while analyzing its bodily-like movement and responsiveness to both real and virtual users.
Title: Geography 905: City, Environment, and Nature
Professor: Ryan Holifield, Assistant Professor, Geography
The purpose of this seminar is to introduce graduate students to different ways of conceptualizing, theorizing, and researching urban environments and urban natures. Through close, intensive readings of a series of books and articles, we will examine several different approaches to urban ecology, including approaches grounded in systems theory, environmental history, radical urban political ecology, and actor-network theory. In the process, we'll consider a wide range of substantive themes: urban ecosystems, natural resources, environmental justice, sustainable cities, health risks and hazards, and urban infrastructures, just to name a few. This seminar will be of potential interest to students in geography, urban studies, urban planning, architecture, anthropology, history, sociology, urban education, biological sciences, and others interested in the relationships between cities and nature or the environment.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
UW Madison Fall 2011 Courses
Fall 2011 Material Culture Classes
AH/CLAS 330/700: The Art and Archaeology of Ancient Greece (Cahill)
TR 8:25-9:40am, L140 Conrad A. Elvehjem Building
Explores the art and archaeology of ancient Greece from the Bronze Age through the Hellenistic period.
AH/LCA 379: Cities of Asia (Chopra)
TR 1:00-2:15pm, 104 Van Hise Hall
Historical overview of the built environment of cities of Asia from antiquity to the present; architectural and urban legacy in its social and historical context; exploration of common themes that thread through the diverse geographical regions and cultures of Asia.
AH 463: American Suburbs (Andrezejewski)
MWF 12:05-12:55pm, L150 Conrad A. Elvehjem Building
This course examines the landscape and material culture of American suburbs, particularly of the twentieth century, for what it can tell us about suburban cultures in the United States. The class will include a historical examination of suburban architecture and landscapes from the nineteenth century through the present, but will also focus on topics related to suburbia that include considerations of race, class, gender and region, as well as how suburban life has been represented in print and visual culture. Students will work on research projects related to Madison area suburbs as well.
AH/DS/HIST 464: Dimensions of Material Culture (Andrzejewski and Gordon)
W 2:25-4:55pm, 1310 Sterling Hall
Approaches to the interdisciplinary study of the material world in order to analyze broader social and cultural issues. Guest speakers explore private and public objects and spaces from historic, ethnographic, and aesthetic perspectives.
AH 479: Art and History in Africa (Drewal)
MW 1:05-2:20pm, L150 Conrad A. Elvehjem Building
Selected African art traditions in their historical and cultural settings.
AH 563: Art, Craft & Industry: Arts & Crafts to Present (Lasser)
R 2:00-4:00pm, L166 Conrad A. Elvehjem Building
Interdisciplinary study of the way people use objects and environments to express identities and relationships in households, communities, and larger social/economic systems.
AH 579: Exhibiting Africa in a Museum (Drewal; Honors Seminar!)
M 6:00-8:00pm, L170 Conrad A. Elvehjem Building
AH 805: Seminar-Ancient Art and Architecture (Cahill)
R 400-6:00pm, L166 Conrad A. Elvehjem Building
AH865: US Modernism and the Culture of Things (Kroiz)
M 4:00-6:00pm, L166 Conrad A. Elvehjem Building
This seminar will introduce students to the burgeoning interdisciplinary field of “thing” theory to examine the relationships of objects, subjects and things. We will consider the materiality and agency of inanimate objects themselves, as well as the role of objects in establishing and mediating social relationships. In addition to our theoretical focus on things, we will also focus historically to consider U.S. modernism as a phenomenon formulated within a culture of proliferating consumer goods. We will draw on methodologies from art history and material culture studies, as well as literature studies, anthropology, and political science. We will also examine primary source materials from the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth century.
ANTH 354: Archaeology of Wisconsin. (Schroeder; fulfills ethnic studies req.)
T 6:00-8:30pm, 6102 Sewell Social Sciences
Introduces students to the archaeological evidence for the diverse Native American cultures of Wisconsin over the past 12,000 years.
CLAS 430: Troy: Myth and Reality (Aylward)
TR 8:25-9:40am, 114 Van Hise Hall
Explores topics in the archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome, such as the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the archaeology of Greek and Roman religion, or Late Antique Palaces.
DS 430: History of Textiles (Gordon)
TR 2:30-3:45pm, 1335 Sterling Hall
Designs and meanings and interrelationships of textiles in selected cultures and time periods.
DS 642: Taste (Chopra)
T 4:00-6:30pm, 399 Van Hise Hall
Exploration of the idea of taste - both "good" and "bad", in "popular" and "high" culture. Cross-cultural readings from theoretical and historical perspectives, relating to architecture, landscape, public space, art, and clothing.
Note: Janet Gilmore on sabbatical next year. Julie Allen on leave next year.
AH/CLAS 330/700: The Art and Archaeology of Ancient Greece (Cahill)
TR 8:25-9:40am, L140 Conrad A. Elvehjem Building
Explores the art and archaeology of ancient Greece from the Bronze Age through the Hellenistic period.
AH/LCA 379: Cities of Asia (Chopra)
TR 1:00-2:15pm, 104 Van Hise Hall
Historical overview of the built environment of cities of Asia from antiquity to the present; architectural and urban legacy in its social and historical context; exploration of common themes that thread through the diverse geographical regions and cultures of Asia.
AH 463: American Suburbs (Andrezejewski)
MWF 12:05-12:55pm, L150 Conrad A. Elvehjem Building
This course examines the landscape and material culture of American suburbs, particularly of the twentieth century, for what it can tell us about suburban cultures in the United States. The class will include a historical examination of suburban architecture and landscapes from the nineteenth century through the present, but will also focus on topics related to suburbia that include considerations of race, class, gender and region, as well as how suburban life has been represented in print and visual culture. Students will work on research projects related to Madison area suburbs as well.
AH/DS/HIST 464: Dimensions of Material Culture (Andrzejewski and Gordon)
W 2:25-4:55pm, 1310 Sterling Hall
Approaches to the interdisciplinary study of the material world in order to analyze broader social and cultural issues. Guest speakers explore private and public objects and spaces from historic, ethnographic, and aesthetic perspectives.
AH 479: Art and History in Africa (Drewal)
MW 1:05-2:20pm, L150 Conrad A. Elvehjem Building
Selected African art traditions in their historical and cultural settings.
AH 563: Art, Craft & Industry: Arts & Crafts to Present (Lasser)
R 2:00-4:00pm, L166 Conrad A. Elvehjem Building
Interdisciplinary study of the way people use objects and environments to express identities and relationships in households, communities, and larger social/economic systems.
AH 579: Exhibiting Africa in a Museum (Drewal; Honors Seminar!)
M 6:00-8:00pm, L170 Conrad A. Elvehjem Building
AH 805: Seminar-Ancient Art and Architecture (Cahill)
R 400-6:00pm, L166 Conrad A. Elvehjem Building
AH865: US Modernism and the Culture of Things (Kroiz)
M 4:00-6:00pm, L166 Conrad A. Elvehjem Building
This seminar will introduce students to the burgeoning interdisciplinary field of “thing” theory to examine the relationships of objects, subjects and things. We will consider the materiality and agency of inanimate objects themselves, as well as the role of objects in establishing and mediating social relationships. In addition to our theoretical focus on things, we will also focus historically to consider U.S. modernism as a phenomenon formulated within a culture of proliferating consumer goods. We will draw on methodologies from art history and material culture studies, as well as literature studies, anthropology, and political science. We will also examine primary source materials from the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth century.
ANTH 354: Archaeology of Wisconsin. (Schroeder; fulfills ethnic studies req.)
T 6:00-8:30pm, 6102 Sewell Social Sciences
Introduces students to the archaeological evidence for the diverse Native American cultures of Wisconsin over the past 12,000 years.
CLAS 430: Troy: Myth and Reality (Aylward)
TR 8:25-9:40am, 114 Van Hise Hall
Explores topics in the archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome, such as the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the archaeology of Greek and Roman religion, or Late Antique Palaces.
DS 430: History of Textiles (Gordon)
TR 2:30-3:45pm, 1335 Sterling Hall
Designs and meanings and interrelationships of textiles in selected cultures and time periods.
DS 642: Taste (Chopra)
T 4:00-6:30pm, 399 Van Hise Hall
Exploration of the idea of taste - both "good" and "bad", in "popular" and "high" culture. Cross-cultural readings from theoretical and historical perspectives, relating to architecture, landscape, public space, art, and clothing.
Note: Janet Gilmore on sabbatical next year. Julie Allen on leave next year.
Friday, January 14, 2011
FIELD SCHOOL 2011
Field School in Vernacular Architecture
University of Wisconsin-Madison & Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures Program (UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee)
Art History 449
Summer 2011 (June 13 – July 8)
This course gives students an immersion experience in the field recording of historic buildings and an opportunity to learn how to write history literally “from the ground up.” Students will receive training in site documentation (including photography and measured drawings), historic building interpretation (focusing on how to “read” buildings), and primary source research (including oral history). They will create site reports on historic buildings that will become part of the historical record of Madison, Wisconsin. This research will also be put towards a conference to be held in the region in 2012, hosting national members of the VAF (Vernacular Architecture Forum).
This summer, our focus will be on the domestic landscape of the 3rd Lake Ridge Neighborhood in Madison, Wisconsin. The neighborhood was the site of some of the earliest pioneer settlement in Madison. Located on the northern shores of Lake Monona (or the surveyor’s “3rd Lake”), the neighborhood contains a sizable collection of antebellum houses as well as an excellent assortment of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century dwellings, commercial structures, and industrial buildings. Our focus will be on documenting the dominant vernacular housing types, including the upright and wing, Italianate, vernacular prairie houses, and an assortment of other Victorian types (including multi-family Queen Anne flats). Oral history research will also be done to document the shirting occupants of these buildings and how they moved through these neighborhoods. This is in keeping with the dominant theme of the 2012 Madison VAF tour, which explores the relationship of domestic life to workspaces. The class will work in partnership with the 3rd Lake Ridge Neighborhood Association and the Madison Trust for Historic Preservation; our findings will be made available to these organizations for dissemination on their webpages.
The hands-on workshop format includes an initial week working on background research and introducing recording techniques and methods for interpreting building fabric. The second week will be spent in gathering data in the field (with the assistance of Prof. Tom Carter from the University of Utah, School of Architecture). The third and final weeks will focus on consolidating and interpreting the data gathered in the field. Equipment and some supplies will be provided, but students must be able to find their own lodging in Madison and purchase some supplies and books. Some expenses for this course have been offset courtesy of the Chipstone Foundation of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. UW-Madison will allow students from outside the University to register under special status.
For more information, please contact Prof. Anna Andrzejewski at avandrzejews@wisc.edu.
University of Wisconsin-Madison & Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures Program (UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee)
Art History 449
Summer 2011 (June 13 – July 8)
This course gives students an immersion experience in the field recording of historic buildings and an opportunity to learn how to write history literally “from the ground up.” Students will receive training in site documentation (including photography and measured drawings), historic building interpretation (focusing on how to “read” buildings), and primary source research (including oral history). They will create site reports on historic buildings that will become part of the historical record of Madison, Wisconsin. This research will also be put towards a conference to be held in the region in 2012, hosting national members of the VAF (Vernacular Architecture Forum).
This summer, our focus will be on the domestic landscape of the 3rd Lake Ridge Neighborhood in Madison, Wisconsin. The neighborhood was the site of some of the earliest pioneer settlement in Madison. Located on the northern shores of Lake Monona (or the surveyor’s “3rd Lake”), the neighborhood contains a sizable collection of antebellum houses as well as an excellent assortment of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century dwellings, commercial structures, and industrial buildings. Our focus will be on documenting the dominant vernacular housing types, including the upright and wing, Italianate, vernacular prairie houses, and an assortment of other Victorian types (including multi-family Queen Anne flats). Oral history research will also be done to document the shirting occupants of these buildings and how they moved through these neighborhoods. This is in keeping with the dominant theme of the 2012 Madison VAF tour, which explores the relationship of domestic life to workspaces. The class will work in partnership with the 3rd Lake Ridge Neighborhood Association and the Madison Trust for Historic Preservation; our findings will be made available to these organizations for dissemination on their webpages.
The hands-on workshop format includes an initial week working on background research and introducing recording techniques and methods for interpreting building fabric. The second week will be spent in gathering data in the field (with the assistance of Prof. Tom Carter from the University of Utah, School of Architecture). The third and final weeks will focus on consolidating and interpreting the data gathered in the field. Equipment and some supplies will be provided, but students must be able to find their own lodging in Madison and purchase some supplies and books. Some expenses for this course have been offset courtesy of the Chipstone Foundation of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. UW-Madison will allow students from outside the University to register under special status.
For more information, please contact Prof. Anna Andrzejewski at avandrzejews@wisc.edu.
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