Project

October 18 At 7 am the Building on Dana folks took to the streets for a photographic project inspired by Los-Angeles based artist Ed Ruscha. In 1966, Ruscha photographed a 2-mile stretch of the Sunset Strip and used the photographs,…

October 11 In just two weeks, Building on Dana will be part of the annual conference for the Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC) in Atlanta (October 23-25). It will be part of our presentation, "Is Visual Practices the Future of…

October 10 Several of us (co-curators and collaborators) attended a webinar with Aaron Anderson of The Xerces Society, which certifies BeeCities and BeeCampuses, introducing their IPM toolkit to support their communities: the process of certification involves drafting and revising integrated…

Building on Dana is pleased to support the theme of our annual conference, inclusive health equity. Using the strategies from John Portman, who designed the Dana Fine Arts Building (1965) and believed his architecture to be dynamic and responsive to…

September 30-October 7 Students are working on the campus context for the Dana Fine Arts Building, looking at how it was represented by students in The Profile (newspaper) and The Silhouette (yearbook) between 1959 and 1971. We are also tracking…

October 7 Scott Anglin, EPA/AHERA/ASHARA Licensed Asbestos Inspector & Designer, George Pineda, MPH, CIH, CHMM National Environmental Solutions, Inc. Scott Anglin discussed the history of asbestos and considerations for responsible removal - and opportunities in responsible preservation. George Pineda covered…

October 5 Co-curators and students in the Building on Dana project hosted visiting scholars for our first public tour. As part the annual conference for SESAH (Marietta, GA, October 3-5), they spent time with us in Dalton Gallery and the…

September 30 Lindsey Walsworth ’05, architectural historian and cultural resources specialist Lindsey Walsworth ’05 delivered an engaging talk on the history of historic preservation in the US, with emphases on contributions from women and developments in the South. This introduction…

September 23 Students in Building on Dana are studying 19 areas in and around the Dana Fine Arts Building. They selected areas and made sculptural prototypes to try on the floorplan. We are aiming for a spatial models of areas…

Heather Ligler, PhD, AIA, Assistant Professor and Foundations Coordinator of the School of Architecture, Florida Atlantic University September 23 Heather Ligler, who has worked with Mr. Portman and studied his architecture as an historian, introduced the shape grammar of Entelechy…

September 16 Students in 3D Thinking made a 1in:1ft scale floorplan of the first floor to try in the space, with a few practice forms. Great start; we'll likely have reduce the size a bit.

Christina Crawford, MArch, PhD, Art History, Emory University September 16 Christina Crawford, our first guest speaker, provided an outstanding introduction to our class in an overview of John Portman’s career in the context of postwar urban development in Atlanta. Her…

September 15: opening celebration A generous grant from Jeanne ’55 and Carroll Berry, which includes their library of books on The Irascibles and mid-century abstraction, has allowed us to recreate the reading area that was original to the building, on…

September 13 With Prof. Tina Pippin, Religious Studies, and Rachel Cochran, Director of Development & Program Evaluation and Co-Founder, Trellis Horticultural Therapy Alliance, we planted seeds for winter sowing, with the goal of including them in our gardens in the…