Paul Hardin Kapp
Biographic Data
| ID | 3065900 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Hardin Kapp |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul Hardin |
| FAMILY NAME | Kapp |
| SIGNATURE | KAPP P H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7203-8388 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Educating Civic Architects Through Historic Preservation
Architecture has and should continue to define the built manifestation of civitas, the community of citizens. Beginning with Leon Battista Alberti, architects have used their talents, knowledge, and skills in collaboration with others to contribute to the common good. Throughout its history, historic preservation has always worked in the civic and political realm to carefully manage change in the historic built environment. This is often entails …
Creating and Managing a Radically Edited Cultural Landscape: The Blue Ridge Parkway in the United States
This article explores how a contrived heritage tourism landscape was created, how its identity was marketed, and how it has influenced the culture of the contiguous region in which it resides in. During the Great Depression, the designers from the U.S. National Park Service manipulated the authenticity of the indigenous architecture and radically edited the mountain landscape in Virginia and North Carolina to create an institutionalized super-sce…
A Reluctance Acceptance: The USA and the Hague Convention of 1954
Fifty-five years and after waging wars in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq, to name only a few, the United States ratified the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict of 1954 (the 1954 Hague Convention) in 2009. Although the U.S. has promoted itself as a strong proponent for world peace and human rights, the treaty ran counter to American military doctrine— ‘that it is necessary to destroy a city or t…
From Pax America to American exceptionalism, American security and beyond: U.S. Legation building in Brazil
Architecture’s ability to not only define a city’s identity but also to convey the values and aspirations of its builders continues to be its most lasting legacy. Great civic architecture, which has endured throughout the ages, becomes cultural property, which is codified for protection as “World Heritage Sites.” This article presents the challenges and the opportunities of designing a new U.S. Embassy in Brasilia, the capital of Brazil and a Wor…
Preserving the past or past preserving: Sustaining the legacy of postmodern museum architecture
The publication of Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture in 1964 signaled the end of Modernism. The reality was that the modern movement had already jettisoned its ideological underpinnings and had become merely another ‘style.’ The avant garde architects in Europe and in North America were ready to move on and saw Postmodernism as a liberating antidote to the strictures of high Modernism. Historic architectural styles, which had been vili…
“Conservation, Tradition and Popular Iconoclasm in North America”
Throughout North America, contentious debates and protests are occurring over the existence of historic monuments that represent racial hatred. As post-colonial countries, the United States and Canada, are only now grappling with managing historic statues, buildings, and landscapes associated with African American racism and cultural genocide among aboriginal people. The “negative heritage” embedded in these monuments was created by acts of tradi…
The University Campus in the United States—As a Designed Work to Produce Knowledge; and as an Artefact of Cultural Heritage
The university campus in the United States is a unique architectural and landscape architecture typology. Nothing like it existed until Harvard University was established in 1638. Invented during in the 17th century by the American colonists and later developed during the American Industrial Revolution, the American campus is a community devoted to teaching and generating knowledge. It can be urban, suburban, and/or rural in form and its planning…
The artisan economy and post-industrial regeneration in the US
Paul Hardin Kappa*a School of Architecture University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA
Losing site: Architecture, memory and place
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Losing site: Architecture, memory and place
The artisan economy and post-industrial regeneration in the US
Paul Hardin Kappa*a School of Architecture University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA
The University Campus in the United States—As a Designed Work to Produce Knowledge; and as an Artefact of Cultural Heritage
The university campus in the United States is a unique architectural and landscape architecture typology. Nothing like it existed until Harvard University was established in 1638. Invented during in the 17th century by the American colonists and later developed during the American Industrial Revolution, the American campus is a community devoted to teaching and generating knowledge. It can be urban, suburban, and/or rural in form and its planning…
“Conservation, Tradition and Popular Iconoclasm in North America”
Throughout North America, contentious debates and protests are occurring over the existence of historic monuments that represent racial hatred. As post-colonial countries, the United States and Canada, are only now grappling with managing historic statues, buildings, and landscapes associated with African American racism and cultural genocide among aboriginal people. The “negative heritage” embedded in these monuments was created by acts of tradi…
Preserving the past or past preserving: Sustaining the legacy of postmodern museum architecture
The publication of Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture in 1964 signaled the end of Modernism. The reality was that the modern movement had already jettisoned its ideological underpinnings and had become merely another ‘style.’ The avant garde architects in Europe and in North America were ready to move on and saw Postmodernism as a liberating antidote to the strictures of high Modernism. Historic architectural styles, which had been vili…
Creating and Managing a Radically Edited Cultural Landscape: The Blue Ridge Parkway in the United States
This article explores how a contrived heritage tourism landscape was created, how its identity was marketed, and how it has influenced the culture of the contiguous region in which it resides in. During the Great Depression, the designers from the U.S. National Park Service manipulated the authenticity of the indigenous architecture and radically edited the mountain landscape in Virginia and North Carolina to create an institutionalized super-sce…
A Reluctance Acceptance: The USA and the Hague Convention of 1954
Fifty-five years and after waging wars in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq, to name only a few, the United States ratified the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict of 1954 (the 1954 Hague Convention) in 2009. Although the U.S. has promoted itself as a strong proponent for world peace and human rights, the treaty ran counter to American military doctrine— ‘that it is necessary to destroy a city or t…
From Pax America to American exceptionalism, American security and beyond: U.S. Legation building in Brazil
Architecture’s ability to not only define a city’s identity but also to convey the values and aspirations of its builders continues to be its most lasting legacy. Great civic architecture, which has endured throughout the ages, becomes cultural property, which is codified for protection as “World Heritage Sites.” This article presents the challenges and the opportunities of designing a new U.S. Embassy in Brasilia, the capital of Brazil and a Wor…
Educating Civic Architects Through Historic Preservation
Architecture has and should continue to define the built manifestation of civitas, the community of citizens. Beginning with Leon Battista Alberti, architects have used their talents, knowledge, and skills in collaboration with others to contribute to the common good. Throughout its history, historic preservation has always worked in the civic and political realm to carefully manage change in the historic built environment. This is often entails …
Art (5 works) · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Architecture (4 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Architecture, Modernity, and Design (3 works)