The Slave Dwelling Project, like so many museums, historic sites, and institutions of higher learning, entered 2020 with robust and ambitious plans. We were well on our way to celebrating our 10th anniversary by organizing a fall conference on the theme “Ten Years of Changing Narratives.” But the outbreak of COVID-19 dictated the postponement of those conference plans and the adjustment of our work to the realities of social distancing and remote communication.
The Society of Architectural Historians is pleased to announce that it will hold its 75th Annual International Conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 27–May 1, 2022. Pittsburgh is home to 90 unique neighborhoods, 165 parks, and miles of hiking and biking trails. Once an industrial hub, Pittsburgh is now a leader in the green building movement and a top-10 city for certified green building space. The city boasts an impressive range of buildings by architects such as H.H. Richardson, Pittsburgh’s first woman architect Elise Mercur, Pittsburgh’s first African American architect Louis Arnett Stuart Bellinger, Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Richard Neutra, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Robert Venturi, and Philip Johnson. Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater is just 60 minutes away in the Laurel Highlands.