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From: Dell Upton <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:      CFP: Architecture as Sign in Ethnic American Communities (fwd)
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Call for Papers:
 
The following session on the relationship of the architectural signing to
ethnic-American communities will be held at the Society of Architectural
Historians 51st Annual Meeting in Los Angeles, April 15-19, 1998.  Paper
proposals should be submitted in the form of 250-word abstracts by September
3, 1997.  A full range of methodologies and theoretical approaches will be
welcome.
 
Architecture as Sign in Ethnic-American Communities
Ethnic-American communities have often been under pressure to assimilate into
their surrounding environment in order to survive, yet they may also be
expected to look exotic or to identify themselves through their architecture.
 In some communities, there is an interplay between identities generated for
tourism or advertisement and community identity.   The resulting tension has
produced unique architectural works and contexts that provide a complex
interplay between ethnic-American communities and their identities.  For
example, some communities are expected to look exotic; Chinese American
communities are supposed to look Chinese, although their architectural
ethnicity may have been designed by Anglo-Americans.  Conversely, can we
identify the buildings designed by Chinese or Chinese Americans on the basis
of ethnicity?  Other communities may have a name but not an identifiable look
or locus to those who do not live in the community.  Some communities have
urban commercial centers that are identifiable, while the members of the
community reside in other areas.  The built environment of rural
ethnic-American communities may have unique features.  Some communities have
transformed the built environment into which they have moved by their
adaptations, rennovations, and use of space.  The complexity of who designed,
commissioned, built or occupies buildings in these communities and how the
built environment was produced is often not readily apparent or easily
decoded.  The session papers should raise and generate questions about
identity, sign, and community as they relate to the built environment.
Lynne Horiuchi, 370 Wurster Hall, University of California; Berkeley,
California, 94720; fax & tel: (510) 547 7638; email: [log in to unmask]
 
My apologies for cross-posting, if you receive this call through several
avenues.
 
Lynne Horiuchi