JSAH Virtual Issue: Architectural History of Atlanta and the Southern United States
in conjunction with the 78th annual conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, which is being held in Atlanta, Georgia from April 30-May 4, 2025, the editors of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians are pleased to make available this special online-only virtual issue of archival articles and reviews from JSAH that explore the architectural history of Atlanta and the southern United States. We trust that the essays in this virtual issue will interest conference attendees, as well as those who have a general interest in the architecture of the region, and invite you to read them for free online for a limited time.
Articles
Paul Rudolph and the Psychology of Space: The Tuskegee and Emory University Chapels
Karla Cavarra Britton, Daniel Ledford
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2019) 78 (3): 327–346.
The 1960s Antebellum Plantation at Stone Mountain, Georgia
Lydia Mattice Brandt, Philip Mills Herrington
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2022) 81 (1): 63–84.
Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America
Walter D. Greason
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2022) 81 (1): 119–121.
Black Community Building: New Deal Programmatic Advocacy at Atlanta’s University Homes
Christina E. Crawford
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2022) 81 (2): 213–234.
Deconstructing Power: W. E. B. Du Bois at the 1900 World’s Fair
Malcolm Rio
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2024) 83 (1): 123–127.
Reviews
Review: Architecture of Neel Reid in Georgia by James Grady
Samuel Wilson, Jr.
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (1974) 33 (3): 260.
Review: Beaux Arts to Bauhaus and beyond: An Architect's Perspective by Harold Bush-Brown
Stanley Abercrombie
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (1978) 37 (1): 45.
Review: The First One Hundred Years of Town Planning in Georgia by Joan Niles Sears; The Georgia Catalog, Historic American Buildings Survey: A Guide to the Architecture of the State, Athens by John Linley; Landmark Homes of Georgia 1733-1983: Two Hundred and Fifty Years of Architecture, Interiors, and Gardens by Van Jones Martin, William Robert Mitchell, Jr.
Catherine M. Howett
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (1983) 42 (3): 308–309.
Review: American Classicist: The Architecture of Philip Trammell Shutze by Elizabeth Meredith Dowling
Keith Morgan
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (1990) 49 (2): 226–227.
Review: Atlanta Architecture: Art Deco to Modern Classic, 1929-1959 by Robert M. Craig
Timothy J. Crimmins
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (1996) 55 (4): 464–465.
If you have enjoyed this virtual issue and would like to secure ongoing access to JSAH, please ask your library to subscribe and/or become a member of the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) to receive access to JSAH, as well as member grants and fellowships, annual conference opportunities, and online academic resources.
For those of you in Atlanta, we encourage you to consider joining one or more of the excellent architectural tours that SAH is offering during the conference. Tours are open to the general public, as well as to conference attendees. For more information and to sign up, please visit https://www.ticketleap.events/events/society-of-architectural-historians.
We also invite conference attendees to meet JSAH’s editorial team in a session to discuss the journal's evolution over time and its newest efforts to develop a multi-modal spectrum of architectural historical publishing formats:
The JSAH Today
Friday May 2 from 1:30-2:30 PM
Room 210