Readings and Screenings

Mar. 5

Discuss readings, emerging projects, documentation methods Intro:  Field Exercise I – Dérive Readings: Allan B. Jacobs, Looking at Cities (Harvard University Press, 1985). Jahn Gehl and Birgitte Svarre, How to Study Public Life (Island Press, 2013). Arjijit Sen, “Making a Case for Serendipity in Architectural Fieldwork,” Buildings and Landscapes:  Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum, Vol. 29, No. 2, Fall 2022. Elaine B Stiles, “Fieldwork Futures:  Historic Preservation,” Buildings and…

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Field Notes

New Haven Rising Solidarity Summit

Tomorrow at Trinity Temple, 6:00 pm New Haven Rising, a community organization of residents dedicated to “winning economic, racial, and social justice through collective action”, is having a Solidarity Summit tomorrow evening that I think will be really interesting in context with last week’s readings and discussion on community action and resistance. I’ll be going to listen to the current voices of New Haven activism, and I thought other people…

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Reading Responses

Feb. 5

A guide to researching a local building that focuses on digital resources and a Word Doc that is the form that we will essentially follow to record our building research are also on Canvas to peruse. Reading responses for this week are below. Readings: Jessica Larson, “The Black Building Environment of Benevolence in New York’s Tenderloin District” Robert W. Craig, “Fire Insurance Records and the Architectural Historian,” Buildings and Landscapes: …

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Field Images, Field Notes

Death and Ceremony in New Haven

Allie Douma and Hadley Tallackson   Gravestones from the New Haven Green: Map of New Haven Green and its uses in 1775. See building 5: “Burying Ground.”  Buildings, grounds and landmarks in New Haven photographs. 100s. Box 1. Folder 6. Yale University Archives, Pictorial Records and Collections. 22 Oct 2024. Rubbings of Grove Street Cemetery created by Robert Greenberg in 2012 and displayed in Lost in New Haven Museum. Photo…

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Beer, Beverages and Prohibition: The Life and Death of Regional Bottlers

Benjamin Johnson   The anchor object I chose is a collection of historic paraphernalia from Hulls Brewing Company. Specifically, I focused on the 3 yellow Hulls cans in the zoomed-in image. Each can present a different type of beer. These are export, cream ale, and Bock beer.   Narrative 1 At Lost in New Haven, a collection of paraphernalia from the Hulls Brewery is on display. I was immediately drawn…

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Bagel Time: Nostalgia, Narrative and Idealism in New Haven’s Historical Branding

Natalie Fox and Calder Birdsey Anchor Object Our anchor object (Fig. 1) is an image from a 1977 advertising booklet produced by Lender and Sons for its 50th anniversary. Lender and Sons was a prominent New Haven bakery that eventually grew into a national business before being acquired by Kraft Foods in 1984. The image, reproduced at Lost in New Haven, shows a quaint yet bustling New Haven street in…

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