Fall 2020

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Best of Intentions: The Historical Development of Education in Architectural Conservation

This thesis traces the origins, development and international spread of postgraduate architectural conservation education. Highlighting fundamental questions about the architect’s role in heritage conservation it also carefully considers the relationship between new design and the protection and care of historic buildings. It analyses the evolution of specific courses and the role of leading individual figures in light of intensifying discussion about principles and education at postwar conservation conferences. Based on historical archival material and interviews with participants, the thesis documents the educational backgrounds and roles of a series of key promoters of conservation education and underlines their subsequent influence on the field. The analysis of individual influence and the links between these actors constitutes a prosopography, or collective biography, for architectural conservation education. This collective biography crosses national borders and explains the common elements of postgraduate courses around the world. The network of relationships between key educators was particularly strong between those from Anglophone nations, facilitated by a common language and shared histories. By attending to conservation education the thesis documents the breadth and intensity of efforts to define the boundary between architectural education in the general sense and conservation specialisation. In doing so, it highlights the unstable boundary between architectural design and architectural conservation. Finally, taking this difficulty into consideration, the thesis examines the opportunities and the difficulties involved in establishing an accredited heritage conservation/historic environment profession

...Of Cabbages and Kings, Spring 2021

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The Elizabeths: Gender, Modernism, and Winnipeg’s Built Environment, 1945-1975

This thesis examines the careers of Elizabeth M. Lord (born Crawford, 1918-1994) and Elizabeth M. Pilcher (later Causwell, 1920-1991?), two women architects who worked in Winnipeg, Manitoba during the post-war period. Lord received her Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Manitoba in 1939 and, in 1944, became the first woman to register with the Manitoba Association of Architects. For the majority of her career, Lord ran her own architectural practice in Winnipeg, taking on small-scale, often domestic, projects. Pilcher received her Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Sydney in 1945. She went on to complete studies at Harvard University and the Edinburgh College of Art. In December 1958, Pilcher arrived in Winnipeg to accept a position with the prominent architectural firm Green Blankstein Russell as chief of their planning department. Given the differences between Lord and Pilcher, the thesis asks: what can be learned about Winnipeg’s built environment during the post-war period by looking at the lives and work of these two women architects? Grounded in empirical evidence, the thesis uses biography as a method to build a picture of Lord and Pilcher’s contributions to post-war construction in Winnipeg. The thesis positions Lord and Pilcher within the history of women architects in Canada and within the climate of the architectural profession in Winnipeg. Fundamentally recuperative in nature, the thesis takes a feminist approach to the history of Winnipeg’s built environment and demonstrates how Lord and Pilcher were active agents who created a lasting mark on the built landscape of their city

Newsletter no. 45

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