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Sep 21 2026

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.


Cover of JSAH 85.3

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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