Statues of the Late Antique Roman Forum: Historical Memory and Digital Reconstruction

Recipient: Favro, Diane G (Los Angeles, CA 90095-1467 USA) in affiliation with University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA 90024 USA)

Description: The proposed digital project explores the issues of representing late antique memory practices by supplementing the ongoing projects at UCLA's Experiential Technologies Center, chiefly the "Digital Roman Forum." In its current form, UCLA's computer model of the Forum applies stringent archeological criteria to architectural representation. Statues and other monuments do not yet appear in the digital reconstruction, because no data indicates either the scale or the orientation of the original works. The first phase of the project will be to map the late antique statue plinths into their original display spots so as to reveal the topographical significance of their inscriptions. The second phase will be to create animated videos that focus on the location of monuments, their site lines, and their proximity to processional routes to explore how the monuments framed perceptions of architecture and topography and enriched the meanings of downtown Rome's open-air displays.

Grant: 194790 / RF-50008-09,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Fellowships at Digital Humanities Centers,   Year Awarded: 2009

Identities in Brick and Stone: Society and the Built Environment on the Mississippi

Recipient: Peterson, Mark (Winona, MN 55987-3434 USA) in affiliation with Winona County Historical Society, Inc. (Winona, MN 55987 USA)

Goal: Planning for a long-term exhibition, audio walking tours, and a website on the built environment in Winona County, Minnesota.

Description: The Winona County Historical Society will use NEH funding to plan and develop the content and interpretive approach of an exhibit on the built environment of Winona County which will anchor its expanded exhibit space. The exhibit will include ???soundseeing??? tours and a wiki site capturing user generated memories of specific places. By focusing on the creation of the built environment in the decades after the Civil War, it will illustrate major themes in the history of American expansion. Drawing on scholarship which explores how social relations are imbedded in the built environment, the exhibit will examine how diverse citizens expressed their individual and collective identities through the creation of the urban landscape of the city of Winona and the rural farmsteads of the county. The exhibit will also survey the ways in which attitudes towards buildings change, leading to contemporary conflicts about whether they should be preserved or destroyed.

Grant: 194599 / GE-50086-09,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: America's Historical and Cultural Organizations Planning,   Year Awarded: 2009

Preserving the Edward L. Daugherty Architectural Drawings Collection

Recipient: Crater, Paul (Atlanta, GA 30305 USA) in affiliation with Atlanta Historical Society

Goal: The purchase of storage equipment and preservation supplies for the drawings and project documentation produced by landscape architect Edward Daugherty, designer of over 1,200 commercial and residential landscapes in the southeastern United States as well as Germany. The project would address the society's most urgent rehousing need and would lay the foundation for processing and digitizing selected drawings.

Description: The Atlanta Historical Society, Inc. proposes a Preservation Assistance Grant of $6,000 to support the purchase, delivery, and installation of four sets of five-drawer flat files to house landscape architectural jobs produced by celebrated landscape architect Edward L. Daugherty. In addition, grant funds will be used to purchase 300 oversized folders to preserve drawings in the collection. So the collection may be entirely re-housed, the Kenan Research Center will provide a $7,500 match to purchase four additional sets of five-drawer flat files and 900 oversized folders.

Grant: 193981 / PG-50617-09,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Preservation Assistance Grants,   Year Awarded: 2009

Vaulting Ambition: The Guastavino Family and America's Great Public Spaces

Recipient: Glover, Susan L (Boston, MA 02116 USA) in affiliation with Boston Public Library (Boston, MA 02117 USA)

Goal: Planning of a gallery exhibition and a traveling panel exhibition with related public programs about how a family of first-generation immigrants created a business that helped to design and construct many of America's iconic public buildings between 1895 and 1962.

Description: This Planning Project will plan an exhibition about the Guastavino Family, Spanish immigrants to America in 1881, who introduced cohesive construction and fireproof tile vaulting to the United States. Until 1960, the company was the creator of decorative and immensely effective domes and vaults in over 1,000 major buildings in the USA. The grant will fund curatorial meetings and design of an exhibition to be mounted at the Boston Public Library which will travel to the National Building Museum, and will then be converted into a traveling panel exhibition.

Grant: 184967 / LP-50013-07,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Libraries Planning,   Year Awarded: 2007

Creating Digital Access to the William Brumfield Russian Architecture Collection

Recipient: Biggins, Michael E (Seattle, WA 98195-2900 USA) in affiliation with University of Washington (Seattle, WA 98195 USA)

Goal: The creation of an image and text database of 30,000 photographs made by William Brumfield, which represent 2,400 examples of Russian architecture of all types and periods.

Description: Funding is sought for the completion of the William Brumfield Russian Architecture Digital Collection, to consist of 30,000 digitized photographs of notable Russian buildings from the middle ages to the present day, taken by Professor William Brumfield of Tulane University, the leading American authority on Russian architecture. The project will create an image and text database that will be the primary encyclopedic resource for the study of Russian architecture, preserving the wealth of visual information contained in this definitive collection of color slides and prints. The pilot site, developed in 2003 with access to c.1,200 photographs via a prototype interface, is available for viewing at http://depts.washington.edu/ceir/brumfield/.

Grant: 179506 / PA-51981-06,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Preservation/Access Projects,   Year Awarded: 2006

The Miami Beach Art Deco District: Using Buildings to Tell Stories

Recipient: Rawlinson, Kate (Miami Beach, FL 33139 USA) in affiliation with Florida International University (Miami, FL 33199 USA)

Goal: Two one-week workshops for 100 art and history teachers to explore the Miami Beach Art Deco District and its significance to the history of 20th-century art and design.

Description: Located in Miami Beach, The Wolfsonian-Florida International University (a museum of art and design) and the Miami Design Preservation League, have created a workshop designed to immerse teachers in the surrounding Miami Beach Architectural District, and utilize the both organization's collections, facilities and expertise. This living cultural and architectural environment will serve not only as an historical resource for the workshop, but also as a pedagogical laboratory, a kind of "reader" to anchor the teaching of specific topics in American history, design history, and civic responsibility. The workshop's content will reinforce the connection between public history and effective teaching, as it also addresses two social science content areas : the history of the people and events of the United States during the Great Depression and World War II, and how art and design shaped and reflected the technological, social, political, and economic changes of the time.

Grant: 179659 / BH-50103-06,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Landmarks of American History,   Year Awarded: 2006

The Architect and the Painter: The Creative Lives of Charles and Ray Eames

Recipient: Jersey, Bill (Berkeley, CA 94710-2599 USA) in affiliation with Catticus Corporation (Berkeley, CA 94710 USA)

Goal: Scripting of a 90-minute documentary film on designers Charles and Ray Eames and their impact on visual vernacular culture in 20th-century America.

Description: Working together from 1941 to 1978, the husband and wife design team of Charles & Ray Eames helped shape the 20th century. They are best remembered for their midcentury Modern furniture and the Eames House, a landmark of Modern architecture. But they created a dazzling variety of other work, including pioneering films and multimedia exhibitions. Their democratic design philosophy aimed to get “the most of the best to the greatest number for the least." For the Eameses, design was less a career than a mission to reinvent the way people lived, worked, played and communicated. Our 90-minute film will tell the story of this fascinating couple in the context of the rapidly shifting consumer, artistic, and intellectual culture of postwar America.

Grant: 181414 / TS-50027-06,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Media TV Scripting,   Year Awarded: 2006

Intersections along the Grand Concourse

Recipient: Bessa, Sergio (Bronx, NY 10456 USA) in affiliation with Bronx Museum of the Arts

Goal: Consultation with scholars, a curator, and public program specialists to develop exhibitions, walking tours, panel discussions, oral history collections, and other public programs that interpret the history of the Grand Concourse, Bronx, New York.

Description: Intersections along the Grand Concourse, a multi-year, interdisciplinary series of events and programs—exhibitions, walking tours, panel discussions, collection of oral histories, and commissioned art projects — that will interpret the history of one of the nation’s premiere thoroughfares. The Grand Concourse was designed by French engineer, Louis Risse, at the end of the nineteenth century, inspired by the Champs Elyssees in Paris.

Grant: 179983 / MC-50047-06,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Museums Consultation,   Year Awarded: 2006

Winona's Architectural Legacy: The Search for an American Style 1880-1930

Recipient: Peterson, Mark F (Winona, MN 55987 USA) in affiliation with Winona County Historical Society, Inc.

Goal: Consultation with scholars and museum professionals to plan a permanent exhibition, walking tours, and other public programs about the emergence of a unique American architectural style in Winona, Minnesota.

Grant: 179925 / MC-50019-06,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Museums Consultation,   Year Awarded: 2006

Storage Furniture and Supplies to Rehouse Photography Collection

Recipient: Twersky, Dana (Washington, DC 20001 USA) in affiliation with National Building Museum (Washington, DC 20016 USA)

Goal: The purchase of archival supplies to rehouse a collection of 20,000 architectural prints and negatives produced from 1895 to 1979 that document building projects throughout the United States, Canada, and Bermuda.

Grant: 179289 / PA-51844-06,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Preservation/Access Projects,   Year Awarded: 2006

Preservation Assessment, Plan, and Workshop

Recipient: Reeves, Sally K (New Orleans, LA 70115 USA) in affiliation with West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana Clerk of Court (St. Francisville, LA 70775 USA)

Goal: A preservation assessment of court records that document the public history of West Feliciana Parish in Louisiana since 1811.

Grant: 179248 / PA-51806-06,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Preservation/Access Projects,   Year Awarded: 2006

Bronx Architecture: A Multimedia Guide for Teachers

Recipient: Hoeltzel, Susan (New York, NY 10468-1589 USA) in affiliation with Lehman College Art Gallery (Bronx, NY 10468-1589 USA)

Goal: A three-year project to develop a website documenting fifty historically and architecturally significant buildings in the Bronx, which would include photographs and written commentaries, biographies of architects, neighborhood histories, lesson plans, virtual walking tours, and resources for further learning.

Grant: 175810 / EE-50229-05,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development,   Year Awarded: 2005

Documentary Film Daniel Burnham

Recipient: McBrien, Judith P (Chicago, IL 60605 USA) in affiliation with Archimedia Workshop NFP

Goal: Consultation with scholars on a two-hour television documentary on the life and work of American architect Daniel Burnham (1846-1912).

Description: American cities in the late 19c were chaotic, exploding with growth and change as the economy shifted from an agrarian to an industrial basis. In the midst of these forces was architect and urbanist Daniel Burnham whose powerful vision of what a civilized American city could be in a democratic society would transform Chicago and cities across our country. His ideas provided a model for Americans to make sense of the world around them at a critical point in our nation's history. Burnham's legacy is fascinating and complex.We seek the NEH's support to develop key humanities issues for a two-part PBS documentary about the life and work of an enormously influential but often misunderstood American cultural leader, architect Daniel Burnham.

Grant: 177101 / GN-50674-05,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Media, Humanities Projects in,   Year Awarded: 2005

EarthWorks: Virtual Explorations of the Ancient Ohio Valley

Recipient: Hancock, John E (Cincinnati, OH 45221-0016 USA) in affiliation with University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, OH 45221 USA)

Goal: Implementation of a traveling exhibition, DVD, and website that would digitally recreate prehistoric earthworks of the Ohio River valley and explore their cultural context and meaning.

Grant: 171719 / GM-50299-04,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Museums and Historical Organizations, Humanities Projects in,   Year Awarded: 2004

Alaska's Built Environment: The Enduring Impact of World War II Quonset Huts

Recipient: Chiei, Christopher M (Anchorage, AK 99501 USA) in affiliation with Anchorage Museum Association

Goal: Implementation of an exhibition, publication, and website interpreting the impact of Quonset huts on the built environment and culture of post-World War II Alaska.

Grant: 171660 / GM-50256-04,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Museums and Historical Organizations, Humanities Projects in,   Year Awarded: 2004

The Hartford Connection

Recipient: Sanko, Anna M (New Haven, CT 06511 USA) in affiliation with Connecticut Architecture Foundation

Goal: A three-year project to develop an interdisciplinary middle school curriculum, with related print- and web-based materials, on Hartford's history as preserved in its built environment.

Description: The Hartford Connection is an interdisciplinary, cultural heritage education program focusing on the humanities and the arts. HC will be designed as a companion to the American history program in Connecticut's middle school classrooms. HC will serve as a standards-based, national model for the collaboration of scholars, designers, and teachers, for integrated education programs based on architecture, and for reconnecting the publication (with student and teacher editions) that pulls together lessons from multiple disciplines and multiple sources and anchors them securely in the concrete, built environment of the local landscape. Through generous illustration; carefully-selected primary sources; context minded prosel and tested, hands-on activities, HC aims to offer students an understanding of Hartford, both as a city and as a metropolitan region, both as it functions locally and as it relates to the state, the nation, and the world.

Grant: 164146 / ED-50037-03,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Education Development and Demonstration,   Year Awarded: 2003

EarthWorks: Virtual Explorations of the Ancient Ohio Valley

Recipient: Hancock, John E (Cincinnati, OH 45221-0016 USA) in affiliation with University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, OH 45221 USA)

Goal: Planning for a traveling multimedia exhibition, a companion DVD, and a website on the Adena, Hopewell, and Fort Ancient earthworks of native peoples in the Ohio River Valley.

Grant: 165231 / GM-50103-03,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Museums and Historical Organizations, Humanities Projects in,   Year Awarded: 2003

Creating a Digital Model of the Historic District of Savannah

Recipient: Williams, Robin B (Savannah, GA 31402-3146 USA) in affiliation with Savannah College of Art and Design (Savannah, GA 31401 USA)

Goal: To create a web-accessible database containing information about the built environment of historic Savannah.

Grant: 158343 / PA-24144-02,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Preservation/Access Projects,   Year Awarded: 2002

Crafting a Regional Modernism: The Architecture of Antonin and Noemi Raymond

Recipient: Helfrich, Kurt (Santa Barbara, CA 93106-7130 USA) in affiliation with University of California, Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA)

Goal: Planning for an international traveling exhibition and accompanying programs examining the artistic careers and impact of architect Antonin Raymond and interior designer Noemi Raymond.

Grant: 115745 / GM-30144-02,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Museums and Historical Organizations, Humanities Projects in,   Year Awarded: 2002

Discovery and Recovery-Documenting the Historic Treasures of the Capille del Cristo

Recipient: Rigau, Jorge (Hato Ray, PR 00916 USA) in affiliation with Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico (San Juan, PR 00919 USA)

Goal: To support the development of undergraduate curricula in art history and architecture based on Capille del Cristo, a historic church in Puerto Rico.

Grant: 157733 / HI-20977-02,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Presidentially Designated Institutions,   Year Awarded: 2002