ICMA session at CAA: Buildings in Bloom: Foliage and Architecture in the Global Middle Ages, 13 February 2020

Please join us at the ICMA sponsored session at the Annual CAA Conference:

Buildings in Bloom: Foliage and Architecture in the Global Middle Ages
Thursday, February 13, 2020
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Hilton Chicago - 3rd Floor - Williford A

CHAIRS
Meg Bernstein, University of California, Los Angeles
Emogene Cataldo, Columbia University

Introduction: Thinking Globally about Foliage in Architecture
Meg Bernstein, University of California, Los Angeles

The Natural World in Early Islamic Architecture
Ann T. Shafer, Harvard AKPIA 

Underground Blossom: Peony, Spatiality, and Entanglement in Tombs of the Liao Dynasty (916-1125 CE)
Fan Zhang, Tulane University

Sociality and Botanical Form in Early Christian Architecture
Andrew Griebeler

The Case for Studying Foliage: Notre-Dame of Amiens and Beyond
Emogene Cataldo, Columbia University