University of MichiganA. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning
doctoral program in architecture
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Architectural history + theory
Phd Student Publications, Papers, and Projects
2007-08    
SACRPH, the Society of American City and Regional Planning History biennial conference; Portland, ME "From Protesters to Planners: Housing and the Local Engagement of Students in Ann Arbor, 1968-1975" Dale Winling
36th Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison "Otto Koenigsberger in Princely Mysore: Battles Over Architectural Taste" Vandana Baweja
Journal of Architectural Education 61:2 (November 2007), 25-34 "The Surfaces of Memory in Berlin: Rebuilding the Schloss" Didem Ekici
"Rethinking German Modernities" conference, University of Cincinnati Invited participant Didem Ekici
     
2006–07    
ACSA (Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture) Annual Meeting Session moderator: "The Monument Today" Didem Ekici
ACSA (Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture), Annual Meeting "The Beginning of a Green Architecture: Otto Koenigsberger at the Department of Tropical Architecture at the Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture, London, UK" Vandana Baweja
College Art Association, Annual Conference "Turning Backward and Inward: Appropriations of the vernacular in the neighborhoods of Ina-Casa" Stephanie Pilat
German Studies Association, Annual Conference "Architecture and Kulturarbeit: The 1914 Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft Architectural Competition" Itohan Osayimwese
"Grazie America" symposium, Rome, Italy "Coming Full Circle: Ina-Casa and America" Stephanie Pilat
IASTE (International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments), conference "Hyper-Traditions," Bangkok "The Surfaces of Memory in Berlin: Rebuilding the Hohenzollern City Palace" Didem Ekici
Society of Architectural Historians, Annual Meeting "Otto Koenigsberger and the Tropicalization of the British Architectural Culture" Vandana Baweja
Society of Architectural Historians, Annual Meeting "From the Light-and-Air Hut to the Modern House: The Impact of the Lifestyle Reform upon German Architectural Discourse" Didem Ekici
Society of Architectural Historians, Annual Meeting "Between Perspective and Section" Kristina Luce
Society of Architectural Historians, Annual Meeting "Colonialism and the Avant-Garde: The Quest for a German Colonial Architecture at the Deutscher Werkbund Exhibition, Cologne, 1914" Itohan Osayimwese
Society of Architectural Historians, Marion Dean Ross Chapter, Annual Meeting "'That new buildings in the colonies, more than previously, suit the character of the country': The 1914 German Colonial Society Architectural Competition" Itohan Osayimwese
Encyclopedia of American Urban History, Sage, 2006 "Harland Bartholomew" Itohan Osayimwese
     
2005–06    
Journal of Social History, Winter 2006 "Review of Downtown America: A History of the Place and the People Who Made It by Alison Isenberg" Dale Winling
Cranbrook Art Museum Exhibit:  Building Connections: Architectural Dialogues with the Collection of Cranbrook Art Museum Deirdre Hennebury (assistant curator)
"Culture Space and Power," workshop, University of Warwick(UK) Selected participant Kristina Luce
Rackham Graduate School, UM "Building Islam in Detroit: An Interdisciplinary Study of Muslim Institutions and Collective Spaces" Omar Baghdady (team member)
International Visual Sociologists Association Conference, Urbino, Italy "Re-imaging Italy: The Use of History in the Postwar Neighborhoods of Ina-Casa" Stephanie Pilat
Michigan Museum Association, Detroit/Bloomfield Hills/Dearborn, conference "An Exploration of the Spatial and Ideological Character of the Art Museum: A Comparative Study of the Tate Britain and the Tate Modern" Deirdre Hennebury
Social Science Research Council-IDRF, Fellows Workshop, Montreal Invited participant Itohan Osayimwese
Thresholds, no. 30, pp. 74-79, Summer 2005 "Pietist space in Germany and the Gold Coast: pietism, colonialism, and the search for Utopia" Itohan Osayimwese
     
2004–05    
College Art Association, Annual Conference "The Pedagogical Facets of Missionary Architecture and Urbanism in Colonial Ghana and Togo" Itohan Osayimwese
Great Asian Streets Symposium "Ratchadamnoen Avenue: Design and Rituals of Hybrid Urbanism in Bangkok, 1900-1910" Pirasri Povatong
"Homeland(s) in Question: Relocating 'Europe’ in the Spaces of Cultural Negotiation," Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, TCAUP "Ex Oriente Lux: Expressionist Architects’ Reception of the Orient" Didem Ekici
"Homeland(s) in Question: Relocating 'Europe’ in the Spaces of Cultural Negotiation," Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, TCAUP "Pietism, Colonialism, and the Search for Utopia: Pietist Space in Germany and the Gold Coast" Itohan Osayimwese
Medieval and Early Modern Spatial Epistemologies, Early Modern Colloquium, UM "Perspective's Praxis: Vermeer's Floors and the Triple Horizon" Kristina Luce
Society of Architectural Historians, Annual Meeting "La Parola al Piccone: Demolition and Reconstruction at the Roman Fora and the Piazzale Augusto Imperatore" Stephanie Pilat
Urban Studies, 41/11, October 2004 Review of Garth Andrew Myers, Verandahs of Power: Colonialism and Space in Urban Africa, Syracuse University Press, 2003 Itohan Osayimwese
     
2003–04    
International Studies in Philosophy, 36/2, Spring 2004 "Looking at Potsdamer Platz through Modern and Postmodern Narratives" Didem Ekici
     
2002–03    
"The Planned City?" ISUF (International Seminar on Urban Form), Trani, Italy "The Laws of the Indies Versus Town Typology in Eighteenth–Century Brazil: Settlement Patterns in Vila Rica and Mariana" June Komisar
Savannah Symposium: Commemoration and the City "Kalanga Muzenga, Slavery, and Heritage in Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil" June Komisar
     
2001–02    
Association of Art Historians Conference "The Indian Post-Colonial Bourgeois House" Vandana Baweja
ISUF (International Seminar for Urban Form) Conference, Cincinnati, OH "From the Traditional to Le Corbusier's 'Machine for Living in’: a Prolegomena" Ela Cil (with I. Mechkunov and A. Senkevitch)
ISUF (International Seminar for Urban Form), Conference, Cincinnati, OH "Raj Rewal: Negotiating the Center and the Periphery" Vandana Baweja
Transcultural Architecture in Latin America conference,
The University of London
"The African Influence on Colonial Architecture in Minas Gerais, Brazil" June Komisar
"Bollywood and Beyond," Film Festival, Center for South Asian Studies, UM Panelist in discussion "The Masala Fim Genre" Vandana Baweja
     
2000–01    
International Making Cities Livable Conference, Charleston, SC "Heritage and Development: Implications for the Planning and Management of Historic Cities" June Komisar
Invented Nations / Invented Traditions: Identity and Space, Berkeley, Center for Environmental Design Research, 2000 "A Case for Modernity and Tradition: Sedad Hakki Eldem and Istanbul" Ela Cil
Latin American Studies Association Conference, Miami, FL "Balancing Preservation and Modernity in the Post-Colonial City: Aspects of Preservation in Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil" June Komisar
"The Long Run: long-term developments in the Arts and Cultural Industries," conference, Erasmus University, Rotterdam "Identity, status and power through art museum architecture: the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles" Victoria Behner Turkel
ACSA (Association for Collegiate Schools of Architecture) Annual Meeting, International Poster Session, "Initiative for Architectural Research" "The Architecture of Colonial Ouro Preto, Brazil" June Komisar