Awards & Honors
Prof. Gutman Wins the Bishir Prize
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City Wide Committee for Integrated Schools, School Boycott! flier. Credit: Queens Museum Civil Rights Archives.
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I.S. 201 from 125th Street Metro North Station, 2014. Credit: Marta Gutman
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Curtis and Davis, I.S. 201 3rd floor plan, construction documents, 1964-66. Credit: Municipal Archives.
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Herman Jacoby, View Of Junior High School 201, 1962, in Office of Civil Defense, Department Of Defense, New Buildings with Fallout Protection, Washington DC, 1963. A copy is in the National Archives.
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Educating Harlem (book cover)
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Curtis and Davis, "How You Can See the World” illustration in to the Pupils and Parents, Arthur A. Schomburg Junior High School, from the architects Curtis and Davis, 1967. A copy is in the Municipal Archives.
The Vernacular Architecture Forum has awarded the 2021 Catherine W. Bishir Prize to Professor Marta Gutman for her chapter “Intermediate School 201: Race, Space, and Modern Architecture in Harlem” in Educating Harlem: A Century of Schooling and Resistance in a Black Community, edited by Ansley T. Erickson and Ernest Morrell (Columbia University Press, 2019).
In making the award, the Bishir Prize committee noted that the chapter’s study of the community controversies around the planning, design, and use of Harlem’s I.S. 201 — the infamous, windowless school that served as a flashpoint in the battle over community educational control in the 1960s — draws on Henri Lefebvre’s concept of production of space and bell hooks’s notion that marginal places can challenge hegemonic social orders; and that through its masterful use of oral history, architecture, ephemera, and other primary sources, it serves as model for understanding how public architecture played a complex role in the charged racial politics of mid-20th century America.