From SHERA-SAH Liaison: Society of Architectural Historians Announces 2016 SAH-Getty International Program Participants

The Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2016 SAH-Getty International Program, generously funded by a grant from the Getty Foundation. Support is provided to professionals from countries that have traditionally been underrepresented at SAH conferences to attend the SAH 2016 Annual International Conference <http://www.sah.org/2016>  in Pasadena/Los Angeles, Calif., April 6–10. The SAH-Getty International Program covers conference registration, travel expenses, hotel accommodations, and a two-year electronic SAH membership. In addition to participating in the conference proceedings, recipients will also give a short presentation of their current research to conference attendees. The purpose of the SAH-Getty International Program is to enable international academics, museum professionals and heritage conservationists and architects to participate in the conference, to help them build their international professional networks, and to diversify and internationalize SAH membership. In addition to this program, SAH offers annual conference fellowships to speakers presenting papers in the 42 sessions, to graduate students, scholars and independent scholars. A committee appointed by SAH President Kenneth Breisch selected the International Program participants, and SAH looks forward to welcoming them at the 2016 Pasadena/Los Angeles conference.

Selected References to 2016 SAH-Getty International Program participants:


Ivan Strelbitsky (Russia)
Chief Engineer, Center of Traditional Russian Culture “Preobrazhenskoe.” Ivan Strelbitsky graduated from the Moscow Institute for Land Reclamation in 1975 with a degree in hydrotechnical structures. After working on several dams and canals in the southern USSR, he decided his vocation was more to conserve nature then to change it. In 1980 he took part in a restoration workshop in which he could implement his background as a structural engineer in conservation and restoration of historic structures throughout Russia, including monasteries, fortresses, mansions and churches. Strelbitsky has taken conservation courses in Moscow and has participated in ICCROM programs in Norway and Rome. For over 10 years, he has worked as a freelance conservation consultant and has taken part in various projects throughout Russia as well as India. He lectures at the Institute of Art Restoration.


 

Sahar Basil Al-Qaisi (Iraq)
Lecturer, Department of Architectural Engineering, Koya University. Sahar Basil Al-Qaisi has been a lecturer in the Department of Architectural Engineering at Koya University, Kurdistan of Iraq since 2008. She received her BSc in architectural engineering (1997) and MSc in urban design (2005) from the University of Technology, Iraq, and her PhD in urban conservation (2011) from the University of Baghdad, Iraq. In 2009 she had a scholarship at the Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany, by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), to participate in a 3-month workshop about the “Urban Development of Baghdad and Further Cities in Iraq.” Her participation in conferences and publications reflects her research interests in conservation, urban design, and architectural history. In her design and conservation classes, she works with her undergraduate students to study and document the neglected cultural features of Koya city and other old Kurdish cities.


 


Fadila Kettaf (Algeria)
Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, University of Sciences and Technology of Mohamed Boudiaf (USTO-MB). Fadila Kettaf is a lecturer in the Department of Architecture at the University of Sciences and Technology of Mohamed Boudiaf (USTO-MB) (Oran, Algeria) and head of its master’s program in architecture and urban design. She is an associate member of the research unit UMR GRED-IRD of the University of Montpellier 3 (France). Her teaching and research focus on a multidisciplinary approach that crosses public space, urban form and architecture in a global vision of urban space. They address reflections on inherited city, with a critical and prospective view. Kettaf received a BA in architecture from the University of Sciences and Technology Mohamed Boudiaf (USTO-MB)  in 1979, an MPhil in architecture and building engineering from Bath University (England) in 1986 and a PhD in geography and town planning from the University Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 (France) in 2013. She is qualified from CNU France section 24: urbanism and town planning.


 


Yifei Liu (China)
Assistant Professor, School of Landscape, Beijing Forestry University. After earning her bachelor’s degree in architecture at Tsinghua University, Yifei Liu went on to pursue a PhD degree in cultural heritage conservation. She has participated in various conservation and research projects at the THU-National Heritage Center, studied as a visiting scholar at Cardiff University in UK, and in 2014 she completed her thesis on “Historic Urban Landscape.” Liu is an assistant professor in the City Planning Department at the School of Landscape, Beijing Forestry University, where she teaches urban geography, urban landscape planning and design, urban planning theories, and an urban design studio. Her current research interests include cultural heritage conservation, historic city studies, cultural landscape, historic urban landscape, urban planning and design. She has published more than 10 papers and has led an ongoing research project entitled "Strategy Study on the Management of Change in Historic Cities Based on the Theory of Historic Urban Landscape."


 


Fernando Martínez Nespral (Argentina)
Professor, University of Buenos Aires. Fernando Martínez Nespral is an architect and specialist in the history and criticism of architecture and urbanism. He graduated from the School of Architecture, Design and Urbanism, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and holds a PhD in history from the University Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires. He completed his post-doc studies at the National University of Córdoba, Argentina.Nespral teaches courses in Islamic and Mudejar architecture, contemporary architecture and architectural history at the University of Buenos Aires, and teaches postgraduate courses at the National University of Tres de Febrero, Buenos Aires. His research focus is Islamic architecture and its connections with the Hispanic American World from the Middle Ages to the present.


 


Changxue Shu (China)
Research Fellow, Needham Research Institute, Cambridge. Changxue Shu is a research fellow in the Needham Research Institute, Cambridge, UK. She holds a PhD in conservation of architectural heritage from the Polytechnic of Milan. Her research focuses on the multicultural interactions between materiality, practicality, and representation in the making of architecture based on three dependent frameworks: history of science and technology, architectural heritage and historical urban landscapes. As an architect and urbanist she has indulged her love of architecture through travelling, surveying, designing and planning. Her present focus is the changes in brickmaking technology in modern China, in collaboration with the lab of CNR-ICVBC (Institute for the Conservation and Valorization of Cultural Heritage) in Florence.


 

About the Society of Architectural Historians

Founded in 1940, the Society of Architectural Historians is a nonprofit membership organization that promotes the study, interpretation and conservation of architecture, design, landscapes and urbanism worldwide. SAH serves a network of local, national and international institutions and individuals who, by vocation or avocation, focus on the built environment and its role in shaping contemporary life. SAH promotes meaningful public engagement with the history of the built environment through advocacy efforts, print and online publications, and local, national and international programs. Learn more at sah.org <http://www.sah.org/> .

About the Getty Foundation

The Getty Foundation fulfills the philanthropic mission of the Getty Trust by supporting individuals and institutions committed to advancing the greater understanding and preservation of the visual arts in Los Angeles and throughout the world. Through strategic grant initiatives, it strengthens art history as a global discipline, promotes the interdisciplinary practice of conservation, increases access to museum and archival collections, and develops current and future leaders in the visual arts. It carries out its work in collaboration with the other Getty Programs to ensure that they individually and collectively achieve maximum effect.

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