Feb. 26
Intro: Assignment 3: Print, Multi-media Archives
Month: February 2025
Feb. 19.
Due: Building Study Readings: Sara Safransky Detroit, The City After Property: Chapters 3, 6, and 7 (prioritize 6 and 7) Zachary Violette’s book, The Decorated Tenement Intro, 1, 2, and 6 (all priorities)
Feb. 12
Seminar Meeting, 220 York Street, Rm. 100 Adrienne Brown, The Residential is Racial, Ch. 4 + 6
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…
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: …