The Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) is meeting this week in Pittsburgh, PA, for the organization’s 75th annual international conference, the organization’s first in-person annual meeting after a pandemic hiatus. University of California Press is proud to be the publisher of the SAH’s flagship journal, the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (JSAH). We have worked with the editors of JSAH to curate a list of articles and reviews from the journal that provide insight into the architectural history of Pittsburgh and its influence(s). Whether you are in Pittsburgh for the conference and, thus, able to visit some of the locations discussed in the pieces below or reading this from home and traveling vicariously, we invite you to read these selections for free online.
Deep Space, Thin Walls: Environmental and Material Precursors to the Postwar Skyscraper
Thomas Leslie, Saranya Panchaseelan, Shawn Barron, Paolo Orlando
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2018) 77 (1): 77–96.
Edgar J. Kaufmann, Frank Lloyd Wright and the “Pittsburgh Point Park Coney Island in Automobile Scale”
Richard Cleary
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (1993) 52 (2): 139–158.
“The Utmost Amount of Effectiv [sic] Accommodation”: Andrew Carnegie and the Reform of the American Library
Abigail A. van Slyck
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (1991) 50 (4): 359–383.
Country and City in the American Romantic Suburb
John Archer
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (1983) 42 (2): 139–156.
Book Review: The Buildings of Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania by Lu Donnelly H., David Brumble, IV, Franklin Toker (Buildings of the United States series. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press for the Society of Architectural Historians, 2010)
Reviewed by Albert M. Tannler
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2011) 70 (4): 539–540.
Exhibition Review: HACLab Pittsburgh: Imagining the Modern (Heinz Architectural Center, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh 12 September 2015–2 May 2016)
Reviewed by Mrinalini Rajagopalan
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2016) 75 (2): 239–241