Held September 15 from 3 -4 p.m. (CVPA – Room 156) Public Welcome

Part of the Art History Lecture Series organized by Dr. Pamela Karimi and part of her  Reinventing the Post-Industrial City (Architecture, Preservation and Sustainability) An Open Undergraduate Art History Course

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Thursday, May 2
4:30–6:00pm at
UMass Dartmouth Claire T. Carney Library
285 Old Westport Road
North Dartmouth, MA

Timothy Rohan – Bay State Renaissance: Paul Rudolph’s 1960s Projects for Boston and Southeastern Massachusetts

In the early 1960s, the famed and controversial American modernist architect Paul Rudolph (1918–97) designed two related projects for Boston and Southeastern Massachusetts that helped redefine monumentality for the post World War II era. Though often maligned as ‘Brutalist,’ Rudolph’s Boston Government Service Center (1962–71) and campus for the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth (1963–72) were attempts to bring citizens together to form community, provide them with better social services, and educate them in order to spark a ‘renaissance’ for the Commonwealth.

Timothy M. Rohan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art, Architecture and Art History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He holds a doctorate from Harvard and is completing a monograph about Paul Rudolph.

Jennifer McGrory – UMass Dartmouth Claire T. Carney Renovation Project

A brief presentation on the architectural renovation of the Claire T. Carney Library at University of Massachusetts in Dartmouth. The library, opened in 1972 and designed by Paul Rudolph underwent a $32m renovation to modernize the facility, including the accessibility, mechanical systems, envelope improvements, and interior finishes. In addition to these changes, the building layout was reorganized to accommodate contemporary library functions and technology. The project hopes to be a model for how to renovate and modernize the existing campus of Brutalist buildings to serve the next 40 years and more.

Jennifer McGrory received her Bachelor of Architecture from the Boston Architectural College in 2002. She has over 15 years of experience in architecture, with a focus on educational and commercial environments. Jennifer has worked with Austin Architects since 2004, as Project Manager and Project Designer. At Austin Architects, she has overseen projects at multiple colleges and universities, including Umass Dartmouth, Cape Cod Community College, Mass College of Art and Harvard Law School. Most recently, Jennifer was responsible for the Project Management of the Umass Dartmouth Claire T. Carney Renovation. In addition, Jennifer has taught at the Boston Architectural College since 2005. She is currently teaching ‘Topics in Sustainability: Sustainability on Campus’ at Umass Dartmouth. In 2008, Jennifer was named one of the ‘Top Ten Architects/Designers’ by the Boston Women’s Business Journal.

with discussant Anna Dempsey
Anna Dempsey, an Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, studied architecture and civil engineering at MIT. After graduation, she worked as a project and construction engineer before returning to graduate school to receive her PhD. She now teaches contemporary and modern design, art and new media classes. Her current research is concerned with gender and the development of modernism.

Urban Renewal and Creative Economy in Massachusetts Gateway Cities, Creative Economy Lecture Series (2012–2013) sponsored by UMass President’s Creative Economy Initiatives Fund, granted to College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Lecture - Science & Art

Professor, Robert Fisher
Physics Department
Monday, April 8, 2013
5:00 p.m.
CVPA, RM 156

Thursday, April 11
6:30–8:00pm at
Buzzards Bay Coalition
Wheeler Learning Center
114 Front Street
New Bedford, MA

Many attempts to re-invent abandoned urban landscapes rely on temporary initiatives. While these offer the benefits of flexibility and fast realization, they can too often fail because they cannot be maintained socially, ecologically or economically. It is precisely these landscapes that are later co-opted, with their potential as productive landscapes disregarded. Presenting projects and initiatives to develop abandoned land and cope with disinvestment in a variety of European and American contexts from the 1970s to the present, we will discuss the temporality of revitalization, and argue for the benefits of longer-term landscape strategies that can restructure the urban condition.

Jill Desimini is an Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Prior to joining the full-time faculty, she was a Senior Associate at Stoss Landscape Urbanism in Boston. She holds Master of Landscape Architecture and Master of Architecture degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Arts in Urban Studies from Brown University. Her research focuses on productive landscape strategies for abandoned urban lands.

Meredith TenHoor is Associate Professor of Architectural History and Theory at the Pratt Institute School of Architecture. Her research examines how architecture, urbanism and landscape design participate in the distribution of resources. She is the co-author of ‘Street Value: Shopping, Planning and Politics at Fulton Mall,’ a dissertation about the design of food markets in Postwar France, as well as articles and book chapters about markets, biopolitics, and urbanism, and is the chair of the Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative.

Urban Renewal and Creative Economy in Massachusetts Gateway Cities, Creative Economy Lecture Series (2012–2013) sponsored by UMass President’s Creative Economy Initiatives Fund, granted to College of Visual and Performing Arts.