Jessica Mace, Ph.D. is an art and architectural historian and Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Art History at the University of Toronto. Recent publications include the books A Medieval Legacy: The Ongoing Life of Forms in the Built Environment. Essays in Honour of Professor Malcolm Thurlby (editor, Patrimonium, 2020); Identity on the Land: Company Towns in Canada (co-authored with Lucie K. Morisset, Patrimonium, 2020); and Notions of Heritage | Notions de patrimoine (co-edited with Yujie Zhu, PUQ, 2021). She is also the Secretariat Officer of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies and the Editor in Chief of the Journal of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada.
Sessions in which Dr Jessica Mace participates
Wednesday 25 May, 2022
We propose a rich and colorful inaugural evening, in a mythical place: Dawson Hall, behind St James United Church (1887-1889, Alexander Francis Dunlop, arch.), known as the "Montreal Methodist Cathedral" - with 2000 seats, it was the largest Methodist church in Canada when it was built. Designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1996, it escaped demolition in 1980 when it was classified as a historic monument, and then escaped extinction thanks to an ambitious restoration project, in...
Friday 27 May, 2022
Architectural history and heritage have historically been defined by superlatives. Vernacular traditions and local histories, on the other hand, have often been pushed to the margins or overlooked. These everyday spaces and places are often relegated to the quotidian, and perceived as unworthy of recognition. The COVID-19 pandemic, however, has changed our daily lives, and in many cases, our values. Now, we have been forced to see the everyday in a new light. What might this n...
Architectural history and heritage have historically been defined by superlatives. Vernacular traditions and local histories, on the other hand, have often been pushed to the margins or overlooked. These everyday spaces and places are often relegated to the quotidian, and perceived as unworthy of recognition. The COVID-19 pandemic, however, has changed our daily lives, and in many cases, our values. Now, we have been forced to see the everyday in a new light. What might this n...
Sessions in which Dr Jessica Mace attends
Saturday 28 May, 2022
We offer a unique experience for the closing dinner of this conference in Montreal, in the former U.S. pavilion of Expo'67 - the most popular of the exhibition, with 5.3 million visitors: the "geodesic dome" designed by architect Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) with the collaboration of Shoji Sadao. The self-supporting steel honeycomb structure, covered with a polymer skin, was burned down in 1976 and redeveloped in the 1990s, according to the plans of architect Éric Gauthier, into an envir...