The Savannah College of Art and Design will be hosting the Vernacular Architecture Forum 2007, "Savannah and the Lowcountry," March 28-31 at the Hilton Savannah DeSoto Hilton at 15 E. Liberty Street in the Landmark Historic District. Held the same weekend as the always sold out Savannah Tour of Homes, this comprehensive round table forum is for the serious architectural heritage lover. "With 150 buildings open in Savannah from basement to attic, and six different full-day bus tours of the surrounding lowcountry, I cannot imagine a more thorough and engaging way to understand our particular cultural landscape and its history," said SCAD architectural history professor Daves Rossell during a telephone interview.
The forum offers architectural heritage tours spanning Georgia's coast into South Carolina's low country area, paper sessions discussing worldwide aspects of cultural landscapes and roundtable discussions. Participants can also enjoy catered banquets, ceremonies and dancing with music provided by local jazz and blues trombonist Teddy Adams. Conference themes include architectural and social sorting, African-American identity in a variety of areas, coastal landscapes, Creole architecture, German settlement patterns, plantations and a history of the region's faith. For more information call 912.525.6054.or to register online for the Vernacular Architecture Forum, click on the link.
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