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Paper abstracts are invited for the panel "Factory-Made: Historic Intersections of Architecture and Industry" at the 60th Annual Society of Architectural Historians Conference, April 11-15, 2007 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. www.sah.org <http://www.sah.org/> CFP: Factory-Made: Historic Intersections of Architecture and Industry Architectural historians frequently refer to the methodological and material importance of industrialization to the history of architecture. Yet the mechanisms - technical, conceptual and formal - through which architects have interacted with industry and industrial modes of production have been less fully examined. Books such as Margaret Crawford's _Building the Workingman's Paradise_ (1995) and Reinhold Martin's _The Organizational Complex_ (2003) show the potential for such studies to expand the boundaries of architectural research, both empirically and theoretically. This panel seeks papers that consider the intersection of architecture and industry from diverse points of view including industrialization as an architectural process and method of making; industry as a generator of architectural forms, components and new materials; architects as the designers of industrial sites; and the long-standing tension between handicraft and manufacturing within the profession. Research in this area is by definition interdisciplinary, since it requires investment in the history of industry and its organizational structures, as well as a desire to explore how architecture is made. We welcome proposals that contribute to and build on work in fields such as anthropology, business history, the history of science and technology, media studies and urban planning. Topics could include the architect as engineer, company town or factory design, corporate architecture, the environmental impact of industrial sites, the history of prefabrication, industrialists as patrons, the use of industrial materials in design, and theoretical and professional debates on architecture and industry. Send proposals by mail or email to: Thomas Leslie, Dept. of Architecture, Iowa State University, 156 College of Design, Ames, IA 50011, tel: 515-294-8460, fax: 515-294-1440, email: tleslie@iastate.edu and Kimberly Elman Zarecor, Dept. of Architecture, Iowa State University, 156 College of Design, Ames, IA 50011, tel: 515-294-5026, fax: 515-294-1440, email: zarecor@iastate.edu. Abstracts of no more than 300 words are due August 18, 2006; please include your name, professional affiliation [graduate students in brackets] and paper title. A short resume, home and work addresses, fax number and email address should also be included. More information about the conference, additional panels and submission guidelines is available at: <http://sah.org/sandbox/sitemedia/PittsburghCall4Papers.pdf>
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