THE 37TH ANNUAL
NESAH STUDENT SYMPOSIUM
Portico Rooms 121-123
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
February 28, 2015
9:00 am – 1:30 pm
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
9:00 am Coffee and refreshments
9:15 am Welcome and Introductions
SESSION 1: Growth and Decay
9:25 am Paternalism Inscribed on the Industrial City: The Case of Lawrence, Massachusetts
P.J. Carlino, Boston University
9:45 am John Ruskin and the Passage of Time
Peter Romains, Roger Williams University
10:05 am Discussion
SESSION 2: National Ambitions
10:20 am Corn Cob, Magnolia, Tobacco: The Ambitions of Benjamin Henry Latrobe’s American Orders
Jennifer Chuong, Harvard University
10:40 am Making Assisi Medieval: Constructing St. Francis in the Fascist Period
Peter Levins, Brown University
11:00 am Defining the Elusive Cubanidad
Katherine Anderson, Norwich University
11:20 am Discussion
11:35 am Break
SESSION 3: Industrious Lands
12:05 pm Intuition, Empiricism, and Technical Drawing in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers before 1871
John Davis, Harvard University
12:25 pm Architecture of the Unknown: The Globes and Towers of Patrick Geddes
Andrew Ruff, Yale University
12:45 pm ‘Small’ in Translation: The American Small Industries Exhibition, Ceylon 1961
Nushelle de Silva, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1:05 pm Discussion