Five people sitting on chairs and ready for the panel questions
And that’s a wrap for the Society of Architectural Historians conference in Mexico City. It has been very lovely to see friends and colleagues and meet new ones.
Thank you Maryluna Santos for the photo and to everyone who attended and engaged with our panel yesterday. #SAH2026
Five people sitting on chairs and ready for the panel questions
And that’s a wrap for the Society of Architectural Historians conference in Mexico City. It has been very lovely to see friends and colleagues and meet new ones.
Thank you Maryluna Santos for the photo and to everyone who attended and engaged with our panel yesterday. #SAH2026
PS54 The Colonial Building Industry in the Americas Session Chair: Alexander Wood, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, USA Room: Doña Socorro, 2nd Floor 10:30 AM Introduction 10:35 AM Building Colonial Lima: Indigenous, African and European Architects and Builders., Laura Fernández-González, University of Lincoln, United Kingdom 10:50 AM Mastering the System: Regulating Labor in colonial America c. 1720, Erik Carver, USC, USA 11:05 AM Constructing a Royal Mint: State Building and Labor in the Andes, Lucia Galaretto, Columbia University, USA 11:20 AM Two Hundred Years of Construction: Fortifying Old Point Comfort and the Emergence of the Building Industry, Michael Osman, UCLA, USA 11:35 AM Knowledge-Making and the Rise of the Building Industry: The Evolution of Early Timber-Construction Education in New England and Its Role in Shaping the Timber Building Sector (17th-18th Centuries), Sky Ming Li, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China; Jieyi Wu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China; and Jie Liu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China 11:50 AM Q&A/Discussion 웃 D PM Closure of Session
I am speaking today at the wonderful Society of Architectural Historians conference in Mexico City #SAH2026
Please join us in the panel PS54: The Colonial Building Industry in the Americas
Chair: Alexander Wood
Doña Socorro, 2nd Floor 10:30 -12.40 pm
Hilton Reforma
#SAH2026 Please join our meetup for those interested in the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain. Meet affiliates incl. editor of @thesahgb.bsky.social journal Architectural History, EDI/ECR Lead and Trustee @laurafg.bsky.social Saturday 18 April, 17:45, Hilton ground floor lobby.
Thank you!
If you're teaching the treasures of Mexico City, Smarthistory has your back:
• Olmec Colossal Heads smarthistory.org/olmec-coloss...
• Aztec Sun Stone smarthistory.org/the-sun-ston...
• Virgin of Guadalupe smarthistory.org/virgin-of-gu...
The Mayas not on the pics btw (I had selected one initially) but the very famous Aztec Sun Stone!
A room packed with architectural historians
Olme giant head
The Aztec Sun Stone
Our Lady of Guadalupe
What a thrilling conference and what a city.
Olmecs, Mayas, and our Lady of Guadalupe among the many treasures Mexico City keeps.
I’m enjoying enormously the panels on Latin American architecture
Mexico City conference Society of Architectural Historians, 2026 #SAH2026
Explore the architectural history of Mexico—with a focus on Central Mexico, especially Tenochtitlan/Mexico City—in advance of the @sah1365.bsky.social conference in Mexico City. www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/j...
Skulls relief Aztec
Statue polychrome Templo Mayor
Remains of the pyramidal structure in Templo Mayor
Aztec carvings polychrome
Templo Mayor, Aztec Tenochtitlan-Mexico City
Astonishing
Altar de los Reyes. Mexico City Cathedral
The pyramid of the Moon in Teotihuacán
The Pyramid of the Moon, Teotihuacán
Cover slide for the presentation that includes name, afiliation, logos of funding bodies and the title (white letters over black blanground): 'Building Colonial Lima: Indigenous, African and European Architects and Builders'.
Interior of the office space in the colonial Casa de Aliaga in Lima. The room with tiles and yellow walls and wooden ceiling has a fireplace and a large mahogany table in the centre, the walls are covered with colonial paintings of religious scenes and from the Cusco and Lima schools as well as portraits.
Slide showing an etching of the Basilica and Convent of St Francis in Lima (Peru) by Juan de Benavides in 1675.
Floor plan and façade of the Church of Our Lady of Copacabana, Rímac, Lima
Paper and presentation ready for the Society of Architectural Historians conference in Mexico City next week.
'Building Colonial Lima' explores architectural design & anti-seismic technologies developed by multiethnic teams of builders.
Looking forward to seeing friends and colleagues next week.
Cover slide for the presentation that includes name, afiliation, logos of funding bodies and the title (white letters over black blanground): 'Building Colonial Lima: Indigenous, African and European Architects and Builders'.
Interior of the office space in the colonial Casa de Aliaga in Lima. The room with tiles and yellow walls and wooden ceiling has a fireplace and a large mahogany table in the centre, the walls are covered with colonial paintings of religious scenes and from the Cusco and Lima schools as well as portraits.
Slide showing an etching of the Basilica and Convent of St Francis in Lima (Peru) by Juan de Benavides in 1675.
Floor plan and façade of the Church of Our Lady of Copacabana, Rímac, Lima
Paper and presentation ready for the Society of Architectural Historians conference in Mexico City next week.
'Building Colonial Lima' explores architectural design & anti-seismic technologies developed by multiethnic teams of builders.
Looking forward to seeing friends and colleagues next week.
Very kind words from Dave and a lovely discussion of the book!
Wow, the first time I see children as 'costaleros'. In Andalucía most of the processional floats are carried by people, mostly men, but there are famous processions with costaleras in Arcos de la Frontera (a town in Cádiz full of very steep hills).
Tremendous footage from the interior of The Great Mosque of Córdoba-Cathedral of Córdoba during Easter.
A processional float from the Confraternity of the Remedios passes through the forest of columns of the Great Mosque.
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Getting excited about the papers I am giving this spring.
I will discuss colonial Lima; Goan builders (Manchester); El Escorial in the 17th C. (Cambridge)& the SAHGB architectural history futures conversation.
Next stop is Mexico City, for the Society of Architectural Historians conference
Getting excited about the papers I am giving this spring.
I will discuss colonial Lima; Goan builders (Manchester); El Escorial in the 17th C. (Cambridge)& the SAHGB architectural history futures conversation.
Next stop is Mexico City, for the Society of Architectural Historians conference
MA Scholarship Award for scholars of colour. In 2026, we plan to offer two scholarships of £4,000 each, to contribute to the costs of postgraduate study. This scholarship is open to candidates studying on either a full time or a part time basis. Apply by 15 July 2026
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Exemplification of charity: Image of a 19th-century man, standing on the left, holding out a pie to a small barefooted boy, standing on the right. Behind them is a cake and pie shop. How equitably can cake and pie be accessed?
For strategic thinking purposes, would be useful to know from UK HEI-based researchers: does your HEI place restrictions on applications to charitable funders? If so, which funders, which schemes, since when & with what rationale? DM and email (m.finn@ucl.ac.uk) replies also welcome if you prefer.
Next week!!
Announcement! 🎺 🎺 🎺
Our MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN WEEK 2026 will be running from 23 March.
Several free online and in-person events will be taking place. For more info and to sign up please visit:
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It’s a phenomenal programme with a stellar team of researchers and teachers contributing to it.
And it’s taught only only on Wednesdays.
I will post below some funding opportunities too
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It’s a phenomenal programme with a stellar team of researchers and teachers contributing to it.
And it’s taught only only on Wednesdays.
I will post below some funding opportunities too
I’m honoured to be Visiting Professor of Medieval Studies @unilincoln. Spring is coming it’s time to make choices. If one of them is following your passion for #Medieval Studies & Heritage then join us! Our MA has got a new Humanities and #Heritage Placement module starting 2026.
View of a large square plaza with a Cathedral with plenty of people, carriages and sellers of produce on the plaza. There is a central main fountain with four smaller ones encircling it. Bordering the plaza, there are colonial buildings including the Cathedral of Lima
Polishing my paper about La Ciudad de Los Reyes
Lima 🍋 for the SAH Mexico City conference in April @sah1365.bsky.social
This painting of the Plaza Mayor de Lima from the Museo de América in Madrid, encapsulates some of the themes I will discuss, architecture (naurally) and its social histories.
Thank you!
View of a large square plaza with a Cathedral with plenty of people, carriages and sellers of produce on the plaza. There is a central main fountain with four smaller ones encircling it. Bordering the plaza, there are colonial buildings including the Cathedral of Lima
Polishing my paper about La Ciudad de Los Reyes
Lima 🍋 for the SAH Mexico City conference in April @sah1365.bsky.social
This painting of the Plaza Mayor de Lima from the Museo de América in Madrid, encapsulates some of the themes I will discuss, architecture (naurally) and its social histories.
