Explore the history of buildings, landscapes, and curated spaces — as well as their authors and occupants — at the Society's 78th annual international meeting in Atlanta, April 30–May 4.
The High Museum of Art was established in 1926 when Harriet Harwell High donated her Tudor Revival home to the City of Atlanta to be used as the city’s first permanent museum of art. The Atlanta Art Association, founded in 1905, became the High Museum of Art, and has remained on this site ever since. Initially housed in the High residence, in 1955...more
The history of Emory University dates to 1833, when the Georgia Methodist Conference first considered establishing a church-sponsored manual labor school that would combine farm work with a college preparatory academic curriculum. Such a school opened near Covington in Newton County in March 1835, initially...more
The Regency Hyatt House, later yatt House Hyatt Regency Hotel (1967), was the first and most renowned of three major hotels John Portman designed at Peachtree Center in Atlanta. The project not only made the Hyatt name better known, catapulting the hotel chain from...more
As idiosyncratic as the Buckhead Library appears, both history and the contemporary urban world inform the design: the orchestration of its plan and the visitor’s choreographed experience recalls Beaux-Arts sequences of the marché; the building is full of postmodern ideals of complexity and contradiction but without implicit historicism; and its high-tech expression in steel, viewed by some... more
