Historic Resources Committee

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Call for Papers

University of Pennsylvania's Change Over Time Issue:

Design + History, Spring 2018

Change is essential to sustaining heritage sites, enabling them to meet new uses and evolving expectations, goals and requirements.  Historic settings gain deeper meaning through thoughtful contemporary design, and contemporary design is enriched by rigorous dialogue with historic environs.  These premises are fundamental to contemporary heritage planning, yet remain highly controversial within the realms of both cons ervation and design.

Can preservation guidelines establish clear expectations without predicting design outcomes?  How abstract can design references to the building or context be before they disrupt the integrity of the setting or meaning? And just as important, how should we train designers and regulators to ensure the best possible outcomes?

This issue of PennDesign's scholarly journal will explore strategies for design in historic contexts.  We welcome submissions on a range of topics:  analyzing and documenting character-defining features of heritage settings, particularly those beyond the visual and two dimensional;  regulations that promote sensitive yet organic growth and development of conservation areas;  and critical analysis of design solutions for landscapes, buildings, neighborhoods and archeological sites.  Papers may include theoretical explorations, historical examples or critiques of case studies. 

Articles are generally restricted to 7,500 or fewer words (the approximate equivalent of thirty pages of double-spaced, twelve-point type) and may include up to ten images. Shorter case studies emphasizing initial design responses and intent will also be considered to explore how designers approach the problem of historical context.  Please submit an abstract by 1 April 2016;  authors will be notified by 1 June 2016, and papers due early May 2017.  Author guidelines will be provided, or email Kecia Fong at cot@design.upenn.edu or Guest Editor Pamela Hawkes FAIA (pwh@scattergooddesign.com) for further information.

Thank you!