Summer 2025 Workshops

Schedule

The Costs of Architecture Network is a new forum for scholars to discuss works in progress that address questions related to costs in the history of architecture and the built environment. For more on the workshops in general, please see the call for abstracts (now closed).

All workshops will take place via Zoom, 12–2pm ET, unless otherwise indicated. The events are free, but participants must register in advance. Registration will open a month before each workshop, and Zoom links and draft papers will be sent to registered participants about two weeks in advance.

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Workshop 1
Thursday, June 12
11am–1pm ET

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Bryan Norwood, “Speculation and Operation: Quantifying Building Work in the Early American Republic”
Abstract

Maryia Rusak, “Architecture, Classified”
Abstract

Respondent: Timothy Hyde

Workshop 2
Thursday, July 3
12–2pm ET

Rebekka Hirschberg, “100 Years of Cost Rent: Designing the Everyday in Vienna’s Periphery”

Eva Schreiner, “Debt, Development, and Deutsche Bank: Constantinople’s Bank Street around 1900”

Respondent: Claire Zimmerman

Workshop 3
Thursday, July 24
12–2pm ET

Vyta Pivo, “Of Sun and Sugar: Synthetic Lumber in Florida’s Everglades”

Anna Luise Schubert, “Steel and Oranges: Material Itineraries between Nazi Germany and Mandatory Palestine, 1933–1939”

Respondent: Elliott Sturtevant

Workshop 4
Thursday, August 14
12–2pm ET

Jesse Honsa, “Time Is Money: The Peabody Trust’s Accounting for Maintenance”

Joy Knoblauch and Sara Stevens, “Speculative Sustainability: Histories of the Empire State Building”

Respondent: Dara Orenstein

Workshop 5
Thursday, August 28
12–2pm ET

Erik Carver, “Built by Chance: Construction Lotteries in Early Republican America”

Yara Saqfalhait, “The Hereafter and the Future: Architecture and the Temporal Horizons of God’s Property”

Respondent: Daniel Abramson