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Preservation Architect

april 2016 issue

 

Recent Discussions

Updated Call for Papers: Design with Heritage

Change is essential to sustaining heritage sites, enabling them to meet new uses and evolving expectations, goals and requirements. Historic settings gain deeper meaning through thoughtful contemporary design, and contemporary design is enriched by rigorous dialogue with historic environs. Read more.

Construction History Society of America 5th Biennial Meeting- Austin TX

The 5th Biennial Meeting on Construction History will take place at the University of Texas, Austin TX from May 26-29, 2016.  Construction Historians and independent scholars will share research and establish a discussion within the frame of Knowledge Exchange and Building Technology Transfer. Read more.


Letter from the Chair

By Karl W. Stumpf, AIA | AIA 2016 Historic Resources Committee Chair

PHILAIADELPHIA 2016!

It is a privilege to be the Chair of the Historic Resources Committee this year.  I am looking forward to working with the committee, our various sub-committees and all of you to develop programs, engage in outreach with allied organizations and promote the work we all care about involving historic resources.  Our newsletters contain a wealth of information on related activities and the work that the HRC does on your behalf. Read more.

Karl Stumpf, AIA

Working with Modernism

By Chandler McCoy | Senior Project Specialist, Getty Conservation Institute

Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Four years ago, the Getty Conservation Institute launched the Conserving Modern Architecture Initiative (CMAI) which is a comprehensive, long-term, and international program with a goal to advance the practice of conserving twentieth-century heritage, with a focus on modernist architecture. To achieve this the CMAI program includes research, model field projects that develop practical conservation solutions, the creation and distribution of technical publications, and training and capacity building. Read more.

HRC Activities at the AIA Convention 2016 in Philadelphia

WE201- Working with Modernism: Assessing and Preserving 20th Century Buildings
Wednesday, May 18, 2016 | 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM | $400
Earn 7.50 LUs/HSW/GBCI/RIBA | Pennsylvania Convention Center Room 108B | Learn more

EV102- Find Your Community in Philly and Beyond!
Wednesday, May 18, 2016 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM | $25
The Racquet Club of Philadelphia | Learn more

EV212- AIA Historic Resources Luncheon
Thursday, May 19, 2016 | 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM | $75
Chemical Heritage Foundation | Learn more

Register now.

Save the Date! AIA Philadelphia HRC Pub Crawl
AIA Philadelphia HRC is organizing a historic pub crawl the evening of Thursday, May 19 during Convention. More information regarding details of this event will be posted on the HRC website soon.

Thirteen Members of the Historic Resources Committee Elevated to College of Fellows

In February the 2016 Jury of Fellows elevated 149 AIA members to the College of Fellows, an honor awarded to members who have made significant contribution to the profession. Included in that group are 13 members of the Historic Resources Committee. Read more.

NPS Charles Peterson Prize Award Ceremony

By James Malanaphy, AIA

HRC members, sponsors and National Trust Historic Sites staff recognized representatives of the Charles Peterson Prize Winning Student Teams during a luncheon ceremony held Thursday at the 2015 National Preservation Conference. Later, on Friday evening HRC members and students met to network and explore the historic taverns and restaurants of Washington DC. Read more.

Charles Peterson Prize winning teams

NC Modernist Houses Increase Public Awareness of Modern Architecture

Started in 2007, North Carolina Modernist Houses’s mission is to document, preserve, and promote modernist architecture and not just in North Carolina but also many well-known mid-century modernist houses across the United States. In just six short years, NCMH has built the largest open digital archive for residential modernist architecture with more than 21,000 images covering nearly every house designed by over 200 North Carolina architects and some notable 50 American architects from Eames to Wright. Read more.

NC Modernist Houses

Preservation as Provocation

The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture 2015-2016 Preservation as Provocation International Student Design Competition is underway. The goal of the design competition, sponsored by the AIA HRC is to explore how the collaboration between existing historic buildings and new design can produce uniquely thoughtful places that celebrate the past and the present. Read more.

Preservation as Provocation

The Traditional Building Conference Makes Four Stops in the US in 2016

The Traditional Building Conference will make four stops in 2016.  The windows conference took place April 12-13 in Chicago. On July 19 and 20, the conference travels to New Haven, CT followed by stops in Pittsburgh in October and a return to Washington, DC in December. Read more.

Richard Morris Hunt Fellowship Call for Candidates

By Wendy Hillis, AIA | HRC Advisory Group, 2007 Richard Morris Hunt Fellow

Since 1990, the Richard Morris Hunt Prize, co-sponsored by the American Architectural Foundation and the French Heritage Society, offers mid-career American and French design professionals an intensive six-month exchange experience that showcases the latest scholarship and practice around historic preservation and architectural heritage. The program is supported in part through a generous gift from LafargeHolcim. Read more.

Richard Morris Hunt Fellowship

Call for Case Studies- Energy and Climate Management in Modern Buildings

The Conserving Modern Architecture Initiative is pleased to announce Energy and Climate Management in Modern Buildings, as the second volume in its publication series, Conserving Modern Heritage, Case Studies From the Field. Aimed at architects, engineers, conservators, students, asset managers, owners, and contractors working in this area of conservation, this series focuses on a specific conservation challenge with each volume. Read more.

case study

Call for Submissions: The World's Best Preservation Ideas

The U.S. National Committee of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (US/ICOMOS), in collaboration with the U.S. Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP), is conducting a Virtual Rains Committee International Tour to solicit short essays describing interesting and useful approaches to heritage law, policy, program strategy, and related preservation challenges from around the world that can help point the way to innovations in U.S. heritage practice over the next 50 years. Read more.

2016 AIA Institute Honor Awards Include Historic Preservation and Adaptive Use

In January, the 2016 AIA Institute Honor Awards recipients were announced for recognition of works that exemplify excellence in architecture, interior architecture and urban design, among others. Selected from roughly 500 submissions, 18 recipients will be honored at the AIA National Convention 2016 in Philadelphia. Of the 18 recipients, five projects involve existing/historic properties. Read more.

Upcoming Events of Interest to HRC Members in 2016

Beyond Modernism? Moving the Recent Past Forward; DOCOMOMO US National Symposium | June 9-12, 2016 in Detroit, MI

The two-day symposium will look at the diverging design and theory of the late 1970 and early 1980s through examining its leading architects and designers and their iconic architectural contributions. Beyond Modernism seeks to broaden the discussion and expand our understanding of how those examples fit into the discourse of modernism. Learn more.

Read for more upcoming events.

HRC Sponsorship Opportunities

By James J. Malanaphy, AIA | 2016 Chair, HRC Development Subcommittee

The Historic Resources Committee continues to provide ongoing sponsorship opportunities for AIA member firms, craftsmen and trades serving the owners of historic properties. Join a select group of historic preservation professionals in support of HRC programs. Benefits of sponsorship include participation at special annual networking events during the AIA Convention, the AIA HRC/Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Colloquium at Taliesin West, and the APT and National Trust conferences. Your contribution will help fund:

  • AIA HRC/ACSA Preservation as Provocation Ideas Competition
  • Charles E. Peterson Student Competition for Measured Drawings
  • AIA/NPS/LOC HABS Coordinating Committee
  • HRC/HABS Student Internship Program
  • HRC/Clemson University/ College of Charleston Pioneers in Preservation Oral History Program
  • DESIGN + HISTORY AIA HRC/Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Colloquium at Taliesin West, and
  • HRC fellowship events and educational programs at the annual conferences of the AIA, APT and NTHP

The 2016 HRC Sponsorship Benefit Levels table provides information on the benefits of HRC sponsorship and sponsorship opportunities. To provide sponsorship, please complete the Sponsor Commitment Form.

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