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For the upcoming Conference, May 8-11, 2008, AVISTA will be offering sessions on the following topics:
  • Session 219, Friday, May 9, 10:00 am, Schneider 1220
    Villard de Honnecourt I: 150 Years of Facsimiles


    Organizer: Carl Barnes, Jr., Oakland University
    Presider: Richard A. Sundt, University of Oregon

    "The 1858 Lassus Facsimile: the Start of It All," Carl F. Barnes, Jr., Oakland University
    "Villard Bound and Unbound(ed): The 1935 Hahnloser Facsimile and the Bauhüttenbuch Style," Katherine Morris, Columbia University
    "The Portfolio of Villard de Honnecourt by Carl Barnes," Nancy Wu, The Cloisters, New York

  • Session 275, Friday, May 9, 1:30 pm, Schneider 1220
    Villard de Honnecourt II: Artistic Matters

    Organizer: Carl Barnes, Jr., Oakland University
    Presider: Carl Barnes, Jr., Oakland University

    "Taking Villard’s Lion at Face Value," Jean Givens, Univ. of Connecticut
    "Architectural Style and Villard's Drawings," Ellen M. Shortell, Massachusetts College of Art & Design
    "Villard de Honnecourt: Master Carpenter of the Gothic Era," George Brooks, Valencia Community College

  • Session 328, Friday, May 9, 3:30 pm, Schneider 1220
    Villard de Honnecourt III: Architecture and Mechanics

    Organizer: Carl Barnes, Jr., Oakland University
    Presider: Carl Barnes, Jr., Oakland University

    "Villard de Honnecourt and His Cistercian Plan of Squares," Nigel Hiscock, Oxford Brookes University
    "Villard’s Perpetuum Mobile," Steven A. Walton, Pennsylvania State University
    "Tracing Tracery and Related Details: Villard's Architectural Drawings and Their Graphic Sources," Katherine Baker, Emory University

  • Session 525, Sunday, May 11, 8:30 am, Fetzer 1010
    New Methods in the Study of Medieval Architecture I

    Organizer: William W. Clark, Queens College and Graduate Center, CUNY, and Robert Bork, University of Iowa
    Presider: William W. Clark

    "Old Wine in New Bottles: The Interrelation of Ritual and Architecture in Byzantium," Vasileios Marinis, Queen's College, NY
    "The Sculpted Capitals of Wells Cathedral," Matthew M. Reeve, Carleton University
    "Rethinking medieval structure," Andrew J Tallon, Vassar College

  • Session 575, Sunday, May 11, 10:30 am, Fetzer 1010
    New Methods in the Study of Medieval Architecture II

    Organizer: William W. Clark, Queens College and Graduate Center, CUNY, and Robert Bork, University of Iowa
    Presider: William W. Clark

    "Thinking and Building the Early-Gothic Chevet: Applied Science in the Twelfth Century," Stefaan Van Liefferinge, University of Georgia
    "New Methods, New Insights at Auxerre Cathedral," Harry Titus, Wake Forest University
    "Narrating Gothic," Stephen Murray, Columbia University

  • AVISTA Business Meeting - Friday, May 9, 12:00 pm, Schneider 1220

  • AVISTA Reception - Friday, May 9, 5:30 pm, Bernhard Faculty Lounge

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