Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians Offers Free Content for SAH's 2026 Virtual Conference
The Society of Architectural Historians is hosting its sixth annual virtual conference from September 24-26, 2026. In tandem with the conference, we are pleased to make the current issue of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians free to read online through October 26, 2026.

JSAH
Volume 85, Issue 3
September 2026
Table of Contents
Editorial
Discuss, Debate, Disputate
Claire Zimmerman
Roundtable
Energy and “Green Building” Since the 1970s
Joseph M. Siry, editor, Daniel A. Barber, Andrew R. Tripp, Anna Renken, Alissa De Wit-Paul ...
Articles
Prayer Hall Under the Imperial Gaze: The Qianlong Emperor (1711–99) and the Huiziying Mosque
Jin Xu
Diyuxing: Resistance and Regionalism in Modern Chinese Architecture, 1940s–2020s
Delin Lai
From Mexico to the Soviet Peripheries: Third World Architectural Agency
Da Hyung Jeong
Reclaiming Authorship, Envisioning Alternatives: Postreform Chinese Architects’ Engagement in Japanese Architectural Competitions
Dijia Chen
Field Notes
What Kind of Interpretation? Contested Heritage Interpretation at China’s Tianfei Temple in Nanyang
Wei Wang
Books
Retrospective Columns: Ionic Capitals and Perceptions of the Past in Greek Architecture, by Samuel Holzman
Fikret Yegül
Goa’s Bom Jesus as Visual Culture: The Basilica’s Architecture, Image, History and Identity, by Vishvesh Prabhakar Kandolkar
Sidh Losa Mendiratta
Architectures of Slavery: Ruins and Reconstructions, edited by Nathaniel Robert Walker and Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann
Ana Gisele Ozaki
Rebuilding St. Paul’s Outside the Walls: Architecture and the Catholic Revival in the Nineteenth Century, by Richard Wittman
Victor Deupi
Kurvierte Barockarchitektur in Böhmen, Franken und Schlesien, by Bernhard Schütz
Michael Young
Spaces of Immigration: American Ports, Railways, and Settlements, by Catherine Boland Erkkila
Alec R. Stewart
Malayan Classicism: From the Architecture of Empire to Asian Vernacular, by Soon-Tzu Speechley
Jiat-Hwee Chang
Restoring America: Historic Preservation and the New Deal, by Stephanie Gray
Barry L. Stiefel
Women and Architectural History: The Monstrous Regiment Then and Now, edited by Dana Arnold
Anne Hultzsch
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