Portland, Maine 04101 United States
Hear Professor Thomas Hubka, author of Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn, describe how Portland builders creatively adapted Maine’s traditional types of rural houses to an increasingly dense and crowded urban environment. Hubka traces the continuous development of these houses as they merged into modern duplexes and Three-Deckers in the early 20th century.
About the presenter: Thomas Hubka is a Professor Emeritus from the Department of Architecture, University of Wisconsin−Milwaukee. Through almost forty years of scholarship and teaching, he has attempted to link the practice and teaching of architecture to historical and cultural context. He has published widely on topics of popular, vernacular architecture including theoretical works and detailed studies of common buildings such as New England farms, bungalows, ranch houses, and workers’ cottages
His latest books explore America’s most common housing such as workers’ cottages, bungalows, and duplexes: How the Working-Class Home Became Modern, 1900-1940. (University of Minnesota Press, 2021, and Houses without Names: Architecture Nomenclature and the Classification of America’s Common Houses (University of Tennessee Press, 2013).
Event Details:
Thursday, October 24 at 1 p.m. ET
Free & open to the public
Registration is requested