The results of past fieldwork projects from the common course, summer field schools, and related long-term projects including the 2012 Vernacular Architecture Forum's Annual Meeting in Madison are available here. This archive grows every semester so please visit again!

For more on types of fieldwork within BLC click here. 

Resources and Highlighted Projects

Faculty and students associated with BLC produce many different types of projects. Some papers and online projects are highlighted below. Among these projects are bibliographies compiled by BLC grad students preparing for their PhD exams. The Syllabus Exchange offers many different approaches to teaching and learning about buildings, landscapes, and cultures. Check back often!

Bibliographies from Grad Student PhD exams:

Syllabus Exchange
Here, find syllabi from some BLC courses and others from colleagues in related departments. Use this as a teaching resource or a dynamic bibliography.

We also recommend the Bibliography and Syllabus Exchange offered by the Vernacular Architecture Forum. 


Professional Development
Find resources for pursuing careers in BLC's interdisciplinary fields.


Papers and Articles by BLC faculty and students
(reproduced with the author's permission):

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Other Research Projects

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Professional Organizations

How is interdisciplinarity achieved? In Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures foundational depth in areas of knowledge is seen as a precursor to interdisciplinary experimentation. Being well-versed and thorough in disciplinary fields of knowledge and methods ground the Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures scholars as they move to connect across epistemological domains.

At Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures we begin with various disciplinary knowledge, texts, methods, and organizations that exist in the academic area. Our faculty members are housed in their own disciplinary contexts. They also belong to a variety of well established organizations. Below are representative scholarly organizations to which faculty members and students belong and participate via publications and conferences.

(AAA) American Anthropological Association >

(AAG) Association of American Geographers >

(AAS) Association of Asian Studies >

(ACSA) Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture >

(AIA) American Institute of Architects >

(ASLCH) Association for the study of Law, Culture and Humanities >

(AJS) Association of Jewish Studies >

(ARCC) Architectural Research Centers Consortium, Inc. >

(ASA) American Studies Association >

(CAA) College Art Association >

(EDRA) Environmental Design Research Association >

Imagining America >

(ICHC) The International Conferences on the History of Cartography >

(ISSOTL) International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning >

(NTHP) National Trust for Historic Preservation

(NCPH) National Council on Public History >

(PAS:APAL) Pioneer America Society: Association of Preservation of Artifacts and Landscapes >

(SAA) Society for Applied Anthropology >

(SAH) Society of Architectural Historians >

(SACRPH) Society of American City and Regional Planning History >

(UHA) The Urban History Association >

(VAF) Vernacular Architecture Forum >