This blog entry is a reproduction of a paper I delivered at the annual SeSAH conference in Athens, Georgia in 2012. INTRODUCTION Over the last two decades, revisionist historians have reassessed Sullivan’s architectural output through his claims as an author, poet, and essayist.[1] A noteworthy example of this is Lauren Weingarden’s Louis H. Sullivan and […]
Note: The following essay was published in the proceedings for the 2012 ACSA International conference. I want to thank ACSA for giving me permission to repost it here on my blog. INTRODUCTION It might seem that very little is controversial about multiculturalism anymore. The notion that institutions of higher education should promote diversity and condemn […]
In this blog entry, I will argue that the design principles of vernacular architecture cannot be reduced to static typological interpretation of physical forms. One must also account for the role of syncretism in the historical development of vernacular forms. According to John Michael Vlach, the historian most responsible for discovering the African roots of […]
