Authors Series-THOMAS HUBKA with Big House, Little House, Back, House Barn
July 14, 2019 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
“Big house, little house, back house, barn”―this rhythmic cadence was sung by nineteenth-century children as they played. It also portrays the four essential components of the farms where many of them lived. The stately and beautiful connected farm buildings made by nineteenth-century New Englanders stand today as a living expression of a rural culture, offering insights into the people who made them and their agricultural way of life. A visual delight as well as an engaging tribute to our nineteenth-century forebears, this book has become one of the standard works on regional farmsteads in America.
Thomas C. Hubka is a Professor Emeritus from the Department of Architecture, University of Wisconsin−Milwaukee where he taught for over twenty years.
Professor Hubka’s presentation focuses on the historical development of New Hampshire’s farm architecture. Professor Hubka is best known for his book: Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn: The Connected Farm Buildings of New England (The University Press of New England) for which he received the Abbott Lowell Cummings Award for the best book in American vernacular architecture.
Hubka has also received awards for his book about Polish wooden synagogues, titled, Resplendent Synagogue: Architecture andWorship in an Eighteenth Century Polish Community (The University Press of New England).
His recently published latest book about American popular housing is titled: Houses without Names: Architecture Nomenclature and the Classification of America’s Common Houses (University of Tennessee Press).
He is currently living in Portland, Oregon and teaches architectural courses at the University of Oregon, Portland State University, and Portland Community College. He is working on his next book, How Working-Class Homes Became Modern: Housing Improvement in America, 1900-1940 (University of Minnesota Press).
He returns each summer to his brother’s (connected) farm in Bridgton, Maine.
The Authors series is a free lecture presented by the collaboration of Denmark Library, Denmark Historical Society and the Denmark Arts Center and help for our local ANGELS.
“Big house, little house, back house, barn”―this rhythmic cadence was sung by nineteenth-century children as they played. It also portrays the four essential components of the farms where many of them lived. The stately and beautiful connected farm buildings made by nineteenth-century New Englanders stand today as a living expression of a rural culture, offering insights into the people who made them and their agricultural way of life. A visual delight as well as an engaging tribute to our nineteenth-century forebears, this book has become one of the standard works on regional farmsteads in America.
Thomas C. Hubka is a Professor Emeritus from the Department of Architecture, University of Wisconsin−Milwaukee where he taught for over twenty years.
Professor Hubka’s presentation focuses on the historical development of New Hampshire’s farm architecture. Professor Hubka is best known for his book: Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn: The Connected Farm Buildings of New England (The University Press of New England) for which he received the Abbott Lowell Cummings Award for the best book in American vernacular architecture.
Hubka has also received awards for his book about Polish wooden synagogues, titled, Resplendent Synagogue: Architecture and Worship in an Eighteenth Century Polish Community (The University Press of New England).
His recently published latest book about American popular housing is titled: Houses without Names: Architecture Nomenclature and the Classification of America’s Common Houses (University of Tennessee Press).
He is currently living in Portland, Oregon and teaches architectural courses at the University of Oregon, Portland State University, and Portland Community College. He is working on his next book, How Working-Class Homes Became Modern: Housing Improvement in America, 1900-1940 (University of Minnesota Press).
He returns each summer to his brother’s (connected) farm in Bridgton, Maine.
The Authors series is a free lecture presented by the collaboration of Denmark Library, Denmark Historical Society and the Denmark Arts Center and help for our local ANGELS.
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