Symposium & Tours

Teaching and Learning with Our Campus Modernist Architecture (October 25, 2024)

The Windows on UMass symposium led by UMassBRUT founding board members Timothy M. Rohan, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of the History of Art & Architecture, UMass Amherst and Ludmilla Pavlova-Gillham, Senior Campus Planner and Architect, UMass Amherst.

We thank our Sponsors: UMass Amherst College of Humanities and Fine Arts Research Council Grant and Conference Grant; UMass Amherst History of Art and Architecture; UMass Amherst Libraries; UMass Amherst Campus Planning; UMass Dartmouth College of Visual and Performing Arts; and Docomomo New England.

Symposium - Teaching and Learning with Our Campus Modernist Architecture

Date & Time: October 25th, 2024. 12:30 - 5:30pm

Location: John Olver Design Building,  UMass Amherst, 551 N Pleasant St, Amherst, MA 01003

Parking: Campus Center Parking Garage rate is $1.85/hr. and it is open 24/7.


Session Program:

12:30 pm - Welcome by Timothy Rohan, Assoc. Prof. & Chair, History of Art & Architecture, UMass Amherst

1:30 pm - Student Presentations

2:00 pm - Researching and Mounting an Exhibition of Campus Buildings by Prof. Kristina Wilson, Art History, Clark University 

2:30 pm - UMass Dartmouth: Working with Students in the Archive to Research Campus Buildings by Prof. Anna Dempsey, Art History, UMass Dartmouth and Allison Cywin, Librarian, UMass Dartmouth and TBA.

3:15 pm - UMass Dartmouth LARTS Building Renovation Project by Rebecca L. Berry, AIA, LEED AP - Principal, Finegold Alexander Architects and Carla Ceruzzi, AIA, LEED AP BD+C - Associate Principal, Sasaki (1 AIA HSW credit available with prior registration).

Architectural Tours - "Windows on UMass"  


Date & Time: October 25th, 2024. 4:30 - 5:30pm

Location: John Olver Design Building,  UMass Amherst, 551 N Pleasant St, Amherst, MA 01003

Parking: Campus Center Parking Garage rate is $1.85/hr. and it is open 24/7.

Tour Schedule:

4:30 pm - Architectural Tour  of W.E.B. Du Bois Library 6th and 7th Floor Renovations: by Liv Wyatt, Designer/Construction Administrator, and Kuhn Riddle Architects & Designers (1 AIA HSW credit available with prior registration)

4:30 pm- DOCOMOMO Windows on UMass Campus Walking Tour  by Prof. Timothy Rohan (1 hour, free and open to the public). RSVP  recommended but not required to umassbrut@umass.edu

Please join us for a walking tour which will concentrate upon the windows of the Brutalist buildings of UMass Amherst. Studying their fenestration provides us a focused way to examine these large-scale structures, such as the Murray D. Lincoln Campus Center by Marcel Breuer.  The tour will be led by UMassBRUT founding member Timothy M. Rohan, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of the History of Art & Architecture and student docents.


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