University of Virginia Library

Architectural Historians
Hold Talk, Demonstration

A lecture and a demonstration
will be held this week in the School
of Architecture, sponsored by the
University Chapter of the Society
of Architectural Historians.

Perry E. Borchers, Professor of
Architecture at Ohio State University
will give a lecture on Architectural
photogrammetry, the study of
photographic measurement of architectural
forms. The lecture will be
delivered in the Bayly Museum,
Thursday at 8:00 pm.

Mr. Borchers has degrees in
architecture from The Ohio State
University, Columbia University,
and the Royal Academy of Art in
Stockholm, Sweden. Since 1957 he
has been the research supervisor for
projects of architectural photogrammetry
at Ohio State, many in
the recording of historic architecture
for the Historic American
Buildings Survey.

He has been McKim Fellow of
Columbia University for preparation
of a three-dimensional record
of Byzantine and Baroque Architecture
and Science Faculty Fellow
of the National Science Foundation
for research at the Royal Institute
of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden,
in the photogrammetric measurement
of movements in Engineering
and Architectural Structure.
He is the author of articles
published internationally in his
field.

The demonstration will be of a
stereoscopic projection which explains
the "binocular perception of
architecture and space." The demonstration
will be held in the School
of Architecture pool room at 2 p.m
on Friday.