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keynote speaker
Our keynote speaker this year will be
Dell Upton, Professor of Architectural History and Anthropology at the University of Virginia.Dell Upton's research focuses on the history of American architecture and urbanism in its global context. He teaches courses on aspects of American and world architecture and urbanism, architectural history theories and methods, material culture, theories of everyday life, public space, and issues of cross-cultural spatial formation in the post-colonial world. Upton's research and teaching focus on architecture as an expressive system, as one of many material media through which human beings form and express their senses of personal and social being.
In this context, he is interested in the ways that cultural, social, aesthetic, and cognitive theories can enrich the study of architectural history. Upton's five books and many articles range from a study of colonial Virginia churches to critiques of New Urbanism and heritage tourism to, most recently, ?Architecture in the United States,? a volume in the Oxford History of Art series. His books have won the Society of Architectural Historians' Alice Davis Hitchcock Award, the American Studies Association's John Hope Franklin Award, the Vernacular Architecture Forum's Abbott Lowell Cummings Award, and the Louisiana Literary Award. In recent years, Upton's scholarly work has focused on urban life and culture. He was a consultant and principal catalogue essayist for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibition ?Art and the Empire City: New York, 1825-1861? (2000) and he edited ?Madaline,? the diary of a young woman in antebellum New Orleans. Upton is currently completing one book on urban life and landscape in the antebellum United States and beginning another on African-American public spaces in the early twentieth century. He is also editor-in-chief of the forthcoming ?Chicago Companion to American Architecture.?
Time and Location: Marine Sciences Auditorium, 8:00AM - 4:00PM, Friday, May 5, 2006,
University of California, Santa Barbara
