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The Allegheny County Courthouse in Context
Public Symposium 
Friday, April 18, 2008
9:00 am – 6:00 pm
Frick Fine Arts Auditorium
University of Pittsburgh
Themes
On the occasion of the 120th anniversary of the opening of the Allegheny County Courthouse, the Architectural Studies program presents an international symposium on the architect Henry Hobson Richardson (1838-1886) and the place of
his Pittsburgh masterpiece in the context of American architecture. This day-long event
features speakers from across the continent who will address aspects of Richardson’s work and the impact of the Allegheny County Courthouse as a model for civic architecture throughout North America.
Chair
Drew Armstrong, University of Pittsburgh
Speakers
MARTIN AURAND, Carnegie Mellon University. Publications: The Spectator and the Topographical City (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006), and The Progressive Architecture of Frederick G. Scheibler, Jr. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994).
KENNETH BREISCH, University of Southern California. Publications: Henry Hobson Richardson and the Small Public Library in America (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1997).
MICHAEL CARY, Seton Hill University. Publications: This American Courthouse. One Hundred Years of Service to the People of Westmoreland County (Ann Arbor: Sheridan Books, 2007).
JEFFREY COHEN, Bryn Mawr College. Publications: Frank Furness: The Complete Works (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1991).
KATE HOLLIDAY, University of Texas at Arlington. Publications: Leopold Eidlitz: Architecture and Idealism in the Gilded Age (New York: W. W. Norton, 2008).
TIMOTHY KELLY, Saint Vincent College. Publications: This American Courthouse. One Hundred Years of Service to the People of Westmoreland County (Ann Arbor: Sheridan Books, 2007).
HOPE MAYO, Harvard University. Publications: One Hundred Books Famous in Medicine (New York: The Grolier Club, 1995), and Marbled and Paste Papers: Rosamond Loring’s Recipe Book: A Facsimile of Her Manuscript Notebook (Cambridge, Mass.: Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, 2007).
MAUREEN MEISTER, Boston. Publications: Architecture and the Arts and Crafts Movement in Boston: Harvard’s H. Langford Warren (Hanover: University Press of New England, 2003), and editor of H.H. Richardson: The Architect, his Peers, and their Era (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999).
MARY ALICE MOLLOY, Chicago. Publications: “Richardson’s Web: A Client’s Assessment of the Architect’s Home and Studio,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 54 (March 1995), 8-23.
JEFFREY OCHSNER, University of Washington. Publications: Distant Corner: Seattle Architects and the Legacy of H.H. Richardson (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003), Shaping Seattle Architecture: A Historical Guide to the Architects (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1994), and H.H. Richardson, Complete Architectural Works (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1982).
DOUGLAS RICHARDSON, University of Toronto. Publications: Canadian Churches: An Architectural History (Richmond Hill, Ont.: Firefly Books, 2007) and A Not Unsightly Building: University College and its History (Oakville, Ont.: Mosaic Press, 1990).
FRANKLIN TOKER, University of Pittsburgh: Publications: Buildings of Pittsburgh (Chicago: Society of Architectural Historians, 2007), Fallingwater Rising: Frank Lloyd Wright, E. J. Kaufmann, and America’s Most Extraordinary House (New York: Knopf, 2003), Pittsburgh: An Urban Portrait (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1986), The Church of Notre-Dame in Montreal: An Architectural History (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1970; 1991).
ARTHUR ZIEGLER, President of the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation and Chair of the Allegheny County Historic Properties Committee. Publications: Landmark Architecture of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation, 1967).