Spring 2019 Historic Preservation Semester in Review

It’s so gratifying to see the class of 2019 graduate, after all their hard work. Their thesis in one hand, and their portfolios in the other, they are ready to enter the profession. Graduation put a smile on everyone’s faces, and it was amazing to see all the faculty, family and friends that supported them along the way. All of us in the Historic Preservation Program wish the graduates every success in their careers. Go forth and make Columbia proud! This graduating class represents a new chapter in Columbia’s Preservation Program. After three years of renewed investments and improvements in every aspect of our program, from academics to faculty, facilities, and financial support, our students are now better prepared for successful careers in today’s job market.

This newsletter is an impressive record of the program’s collective achievements. I want to congratulate all students, faculty and staff for your incredible work and deep commitments to preservation and to improving the human condition beyond our gates.

Let me take this opportunity to briefly reflect on this new chapter in the direction of the program and why we are making these investments and changes.

We are living through a period of massive technological advances, socio-political upheavals and environmental degradation. These forces are interrelated, and they are acting at a global scale, with a simultaneity and speed that is unprecedented in human history. They are having direct, fundamental, and immediate effects with long lasting consequences for the preservation profession.

We cannot carry on with business as usual. We need to be educating students in anticipation of the future job market. The next decade will require radical changes in how we think about and practice preservation, as we act to reduce greenhouse emissions and manage the physical and social effects of climate change on heritage.

As part of a leading research university, Columbia’s preservation program has a responsibility to develop the knowledge and imagine the ideas that will help shape that future. We need to be anticipatory and proactive, not just reactive to the profession. Preservation education and research must engage the new reality with eyes wide open. We are here to learn how to act and think both locally and globally, because that is the new interconnected nature of the challenges we face. As Dean Andraos said in her graduation speech, it is time to think pessimistically and act optimistically, prepare for the worst and work towards (not just hope for) the best outcomes.

Columbia’s Historic Preservation Program is taking concrete actions in this direction. We moved to a new “integrated curriculum” that educates students on how to conduct research that challenges preservation orthodoxies about technology, social justice, cultural politics and climate change. In other words, we are working to understand and shape the very forces that, in their interconnectedness, are causing the crises in our globalized society.

We have in our hands formidable new digital technologies which allow us to produce and analyze data in ways that were unthinkable a mere ten years ago. This is why we have completely redesigned and re-launched our Preservation Technology Lab. It is now a world-class research facility. It also has a new focus: to research how new digital technologies can be combined with old mechanical technologies to deepen our knowledge of architectural heritage, and rethink how we conserve building materials in socially ethical, environmentally sustainable, and aesthetically compelling ways. In this new model, Columbia’s research into preservation technology is not merely a question of materials science, it also involves environmental policy, cultural activism, historical reasoning, and aesthetic communication.

If the challenges we face are global in scale, then an international research-driven education is more critical than ever. Our program’s changes and investments are making Columbia a center for students and researchers from all over the world to come learn and share ideas.

We are building a robust international scholarly culture by creating an ecology of researchers at all levels of graduate education. The Masters students, with their scholarly research theses and studio projects, are connecting our program to the profession. The Onera Prize for Historic Preservation laurates are translating academic research into practical innovations. Our new PhD in Preservation students are deepening our roots in academe. In addition, we are creating new post-doctoral level positions. Starting next fall, a new post-doctoral fellow, Dr. Emily Spratt, will start research at the intersection of preservation and artificial intelligence, thanks to support from the Data Science Institute. This will further enrich our scholarly culture by allowing us to collaborate on research with the School of Engineering’s faculty experts in Machine Learning. In addition, our program benefits from the already existing Weinberg post-doctoral fellowships in architectural history and preservation at Columbia’s Italian Academy, and GSAPP’s Visiting Scholars program.

All this means Columbia’s Preservation Program now has a formidable research capacity, and a thriving academic culture. With these rich resources comes the responsibility for all of us to contribute to improving the discipline, the profession and through them the world. We are already doing a remarkable job, as Prof. Dolkart’s work on preserving LGBTQ sites, and Prof. Avrami’s work on preservation and spatial justice attest. And we can do even more if we focus our collective attention on the defining issues of our age. So whether you are a second year going out to get your first job, or a first year thinking about your upcoming thesis topic, a doctoral student envisioning a dissertation, a faculty member putting together a course, or a staff member managing our resources, I invite you all to think about how the work you decide to take on can make an impact for the greater good.

Congratulations to each of you on your achievements, and thank you for making this a great semester and year!

Have a great summer!

Sincerely,

Jorge Otero-Pailos

Director and Professor of Historic Preservation

Program Updates

Dean Amale Andraos marks the opening of the Preservation Technology Lab.

Students, faculty, alumni, and visiting scholars mingle in the Preservation Technology Lab.

Dean Amale Andraos, Director Jorge Otero-Pailos, and Lab Manager Mika Tal use new Lab equipment.

Dean Amale Andraos and Director Jorge Otero-Pailos speak in the Preservation Technology Lab.

Second Year Gabriela Figuereo introduces her thesis work to Emily L. Spratt, a speaker at the 2019 Fitch Colloquium.

Classroom space in the Preservation Technology Lab.

Preservation Technology Lab with new countertops and storage.

Sample library in the Preservation Technology Lab.

Preservation Technology Laboratory

As a kickoff to the program’s annual Fitch Colloquium, Amale Andraos, Jorge Otero-Pailos, and Mika Tal led a ribbon cutting event for the new Preservation Technology Laboratory. As a result of the renovation, students now have access to state of the art equipment for documentation, data collection, and experimentation. The Preservation Technology Lab is intended to support studios and will be at the center of new courses, such as Traditional Building Technology, Modern Building Technology, and Investigative Techniques for Laboratory and Field. All students will be trained to use the Laboratory’s new equipment to enrich their explorations in Studio, Thesis, and independent work. In addition, the laboratory houses some of the most complete and extensive historic collections of brick, sand, terra cotta, wood, and mudbrick, as well as a unique set of collections of stone samples dating back to the 19th century, and historic mortar and mosaic samples dating from Roman times to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater.

New Program Manager

Meredith Brull has been leading the program in her new position as the Historic Preservation Program Manager this past semester. Originally from New Jersey, Meredith traveled to Florida to pursue an undergraduate degree in psychology at Eckerd College. During her time at Eckerd, she was a college tour guide, which sparked her initial interest in building a career in higher education. Shortly after graduation she began working as an Admission Counselor for Eckerd College and worked closely with prospective and current students alike. This important work with students fueled her desire to learn more about higher education and continue her studies at the graduate level. While earning her graduate degree in Higher and Postsecondary Education at Teachers College, she had the opportunity to experience the inter-workings of the administration at Columbia School of Social Work as a graduate assistant. Her most recent position post-graduation was working regionally in New Jersey for Ithaca College, where she was charged with creating and executing a state-wide recruitment strategy each year. In her free time, Meredith enjoys yoga, petting dogs, and eating bagels. Thanks for all your help, Meredith!

Academics

Thank you to all students and faculty for their help this year as we rolled the new “integrated curriculum,” which provides students with a stronger foundation in all aspects of professional practice. The new curriculum rests on a foundation of new SLAB courses covering social, laboratory, archival-historical, and building research methods. The SLAB foundation of knowledge acquired in lecture and seminar courses is synthesized and applied in studio projects. This capacity to synthesize knowledge and propose innovative solutions is an essential skill for long term career success. It is the foundation of creativity, of the ability to make lateral connections and to consider the big picture, while working through small details.

New Courses

To round out the SLAB foundation, this year we introduced two new required courses “Traditional Building Technology” and “Modern Building Technology,” taught respectively by Prof. Michiels and Prof. Prudon. New electives and new faculty also made their debut, including: “Investigative Techniques,” co-taught by Prof. Weiss and Prof. Trienens, which provides hands on field and laboratory experience; “Digital Heritage Documentation” taught by Prof. Kose, which introduces students to 3D scanning, printing, GIS and data management; and “Preserving LGBTQ sites” taught by Prof. Dolkart. Masterclasses included Prof. Campagna’s “Adaptation: Rebuilding American Cities”, for which students traveled to Buffalo, and Prof. Hewison’s popular “John Ruskin and the 19th Century.”

Studios

There was a strong current in all studios to reimagine preservation as a tool for social change and environmental stewardship both in the US and abroad. It is inspiring to see our students’ turn their ambitions to change the world into concrete actions in studio.

Studio I

Studio I In Studio I, students developed practical solutions for urgent preservation problems in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen. The report developed to showcase work done by First Year students in Studio I is available here.

Studio II

Studio II Studio 2 is focused on buildings in their urban and social context. Professors Avrami, Freeman and Michiels asked students to rethink how preservation can help spatialize the values of Columbia University’s campus and Manhattanville in more inclusive ways.

Students studied the architectural and social development of Morningside Heights and Manhattanville in New York, New York. The studio analyzed the individual development of these two neighborhoods and their influence on each other in the present day. Studio II identified a number of ways, both physically and socially, that preservation can incentivize inclusion in a greater community. This was explored through various lenses, from the feature-level, building, site, or study area. To do this, the Studio has explored three main questions:

How are diverse narratives and publics represented in the Columbia community? How does the historic built environment reinforce some narratives versus others, and reflect some publics versus others, and what are the implications of these differences? How can the preservation enterprise intervene, so as to instrumentalize heritage toward greater social inclusion?

Studio III

The HP/UP Joint Studio, led by Erica Avrami and Will Raynolds, traveled to Montgomery, AL.

Montgomery claims to be the most “historically marked” city in America due to its profusion of interpretative signage, monuments and historical structures. Its history is undoubtedly rich, though it has been contested from the beginning: the Muscogee (Creek) Nation were forcibly removed from the land during the Trail of Tears. It developed as a hub of slave trading, and became the first capital of the Confederacy, as well as an epicenter of the Civil Rights Movement. This joint historic preservation and urban planning studio embarked on a study of how these often divergent narratives have been made tangible through interventions within the urban landscape. In the context of a city-wide master planning process currently underway, the students proposed pathways to highlight the role of narrative in future decision-making about the built environment. Report forthcoming.

Preservation/Architecture joint Studio3 in Mexico

Final Review

Casa Barragan

The HP/Arch Joint Studio led by Jorge Otero-Pailos and Mark Rakatansky traveled to Mexico City, Mexico.

The joint Preservation/Architecture Studio 3 continued a multi-year research project on how to adaptively reuse the modernist US Embassies being decommissioned and sold by the US Department of State. Students travelled to Mexico document the US Embassy in Mexico City, designed in 1957 by R. Max Brooks and Llewellyn Pitts of Southwestern Architects. Back at Columbia, they worked on adaptive reuse solutions to foster extensive new cultural programs of exchange. Many of the students designs engaged with current US immigration and climate policies.

The studio engaged in a radical renewal of this modernist building, proposing alternative uses for the Embassy that considered the multitude of issues and exchanges its political origins exposes, pushing the boundaries of an adaptive re-use of the values that an architectural artifact always enacts.Following a series of background research and transformative exercises on the formal and political context of the building.

While in Mexico City students studied the preservation of important modernist structures: the conjoined house/studios of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, the constructed domestic landscapes of Luis Barragán, of the modernist campus of UNAM (with its own provocative of exchanges between ornament and tectonics), the Museum of Anthropology, the early administrative complex of the pre-Columbian city of Teotihuacan, and also conducted visits to contemporary architecture offices.

Preservation Technology Studio

The Preservation Technology Studio led by Prof. Adam Lowe and Prof. Carlos Bayod traveled to Seville, Spain,

This project-based Studio explored the potential for advanced applications of technology in the field of digital conservation. Drawing on previous knowledge of architectural structure systems and materials, students employed cutting-edge 3D scanning, high-resolution photogrammetry and fabrication technologies to develop an experimental digital preservation treatment for the Casa de Pilatos in Seville (Spain). Considered the prototype of the Andalusian palace, Casa de Pilatos serves as the permanent residence of the Dukes of Medinaceli. The building is a mixture of Italian Renaissance and Spanish Mudéjar styles. Casa de Pilatos has around 150 different azulejo designs of the 1530s made by the brothers Diego and Juan Pulido, one of the largest antique azulejo collections in the world.

Digital technology was used to document the current state of the building as well as to propose alternative approaches for its preservation and dissemination. Students traveled to Seville to digitally record the walls of the Casa de Pilatos with different 3D and color systems. Back at Columbia they processed the obtained information to generate both virtual and physical output of the data. They then experimented with how to digitally restore certain areas and envision ways in which the construction of replicas could reconcile the preservation of the site with the public interest in visiting it. Students considered technology in a broader cultural, political and aesthetic context. They will informed their approaches with archival research, materials science research and other relevant research in order to address the range of issues opened up in the course.

The students were featured in a video, produced by Factum Arte, describing their work scanning Casa De Pilatos in Seville, Spain.

Faculty News

Andrew Dolkart, as director of the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project, led Stonewall 50: Defining LGBTQ Site Preservation on April 6th, a symposium examining the progress and challenges of preserving sites of significance to LGBTQ communities and, by extension, to the heritage of cities and nations around the world.

Erica Avrami hosted the second of three symposia at World Monuments Fund on February 7th titled “Toward Spatial Justice.” Along with panelists Brent Leggs, Rosario Jackson, and Emma Ososre, Erica explored issues of heritage, inclusion, and community power in preservation policy and practice. The book produced from Erica’s last symposium, titled, “Preservation and the New Data Landscape,” has also been published and is available for purchase. Erica also co-authored “Confronting Exclusion: Redefining the Intended Outcomes of Historic Preservation” in the journal, Change Over Time.

Jorge Otero-Pailos installation, Répétiteur at the New York City Centre theater, was positively reviewed in the The New York Times and Metropolis among others. It is an immersive installation exploring the intangible heritage of dance, especially how dance masters pass their choreography from generation to generation through trusted répétiteurs, or stagers, who serve as their living archive. He organized the Fitch Colloquium on Experimental Preservation Technology. He gave a talk about “Repair” at the RISD Art Museum. Additionally, Jorge was quoted in the NY Times article “The Battle to Make the Strand a Landmark Is About More Than a Building.”

Tim Michiels delivered a lecture on his work integrating traditional building techniques with digital fabrication and modeling to the Structural Engineers Association of New York on April 16th.

Richard Pieper delivered a lecture, “Aluminum and Stainless Steel: Challenges for the Conservator,” at the Preserving the Recent Past 3 conference in Los Angeles on March 15th.

Bilge Kose delivered a lecture, “Stratification of an Industrial Heritage Site: The Multi-Layered Cultural Landscape of Seka Izmit Factory from Ancient Rome to Modern Turkey” at the Columbia Center for Archaeology on March 7th.

Michael Adlerstein gave the opening keynote for the Annual Conference of DOCOMOMO Quebec on May 2, 2019. His talk was about The UN Renovation and Sustainable Retrofits. The conference was titled “Towards a Modern Sustainable Heritage”.

Exhibitions

End of Year Show 2019

End of Year Show assembly

End of Year Show

Mariana Avila Flynn organized and designed this year’s End of Year Show exhibiting work from HP students during the 2018-2019 school year.

The Old Essex County Jail: Past and Present

The Old Essex County Jail: Past and Present

The Old Essex County Jail: Past and Present exhibition opened in May 2019 in Newark, NJ. This exhibition is based on the work of students from Studio II in Spring 2018, which was taught by Monty Freeman and Bryony Roberts. You can learn more about the research being exhibited here. Please feel welcome to visit the exhibition until September 27th.

Location: Hahne Building atrium 633 Broad Street Newark, New Jersey

Experimental Preservation course exhibition at the Intrepid Museum

The Intrepid Museum

The Experimental Preservation class, taught by Jorge Otero-Pailos and Andreas Keller conducted research on the reconstruction of historic smells for the Sick Bay (hospital) of the historic aircraft carrier. This research project was a collaboration with the Intrepid Museum’s Elaine Charnov, Senior Vice President, Exhibits, Education & Public Programs, and Jessica Williams (HP alumna ‘06), Curator of History and Collections. The work of the class was a pop-up exhibition on site at the Intrepid Museum.

Thesis

Ariane Prache: Move it or Lose it? Heritage and Community Relocation in an Era of Coastal Sea Level Rise

Aura Maria Jaramillo: Politics & Aesthetics of Ripristino: A Select Study of the Preservation Work of Antonio Muñoz in Rome

Bella Figuereo: Mortar Analysis for Archaeological Stratigraphy: The Stadt Huys Block and Seven Hanover Square Sites

Daniella Zamora: Building a New Identity Through Architecture: The Case of Colombia and Government Buildings Constructed During the Term of the Liberal Republic (1930-1946) and the Case for Their Preservation

Gwendolyn Stegall: A Spatial History of Lesbian Bars in New York City

Madeline Berry: U.S. Route 1: Catalyst of Maine Corridor Community Planning & Preservation

Maura Whang: Sites of Contention—Now What? Towards Inclusive Practices and New Forms of Collective Memory at Confederate Monuments

Myron Wang: On Neighborhood Banks and Their Continued Relevance in the Urban Landscape, Brooklyn 1900-1935

Nina Lang: “Riot” Heritage of the Civil Rights Era

Qianye Yu: A Room of Her Own: Housing for New York’s Working Women, 1875-1930

Rob Kesack: Analyzing Digital Photogrammetry for Heritage Preservation

Ryan Zeek: A Preservation Revolution: Resurrecting Franklin Court for the Bicentennial

Shivali Gaikwad: Living With Water: Adaptation Processes, Heritage Conservation, and Conflicting Values

Sunny Zhang: Interpreting Historical Experience as a Prelude to Preservation: The Special Case of the Department Store

Valentina Angelucci: Art and Literature of Johannesburg: The Telling of Tailings

Victoria Pardo: Food Interpretation At House Museums And Historic Sites: The Characteristics Of Successful Food Programs

Whitney Bayers: Neighborhood Rezoning and Historic Preservation in New York City

Xianqi Fan: What Should We Interpret First in an Archaeological Site: A Value-Based Identification of Character-Defining Features in First Qin Emperor’s Mausoleum

Zhiyue Zhang: Preservation in the Dark: Current Trends and Future Prospects for Son et Lumiere in China

Graduation Prizes

Onera Prize

The Onera Prize for Historic Preservation is awarded to a graduating student or students to conduct a project that tests new preservation theories in practice.

Winner: Aura Maria Jaramillo & Daniella Zamora
Proposal Title: Cali Histórica

Faculty Awards for Outstanding Thesis

Winners: Ryan Zeek & Aura Maria Jaramillo

Peer to Peer Award

This award is given in recognition of outstanding service to classmates, faculty, and school.

Winner: Nina Lang

Cleo & James Marston Fitch Thesis Grant

The Cleo & James Marston Fitch Thesis Grant was established in 2001, and is made possible by a bequest from James Marston Fitch, the founder of the Historic Preservation program at Columbia University. The grant is named in honor of Dr. Fitch and his wife, Cleo Rickman Fitch. It is awarded annually to a Columbia University Historic Preservation thesis candidate for mid-year thesis research or travel.

Winner: Shivali Gaikwad

William Kinne Fellows Traveling Prize

The William Kinne Fellows Traveling Prize is granted on the merit of proposals submitted for travel abroad incorporating the study of architecture, including planning and other specialized aspects of architecture.

Winner: Maura Whang

Student News

APT-PETC team with advisor Tim Michiels.

APT-PETC team building their arch.

First Year, Erin Murphy, checks the arch’s strength.

First Year, Micah Tichenor, checks the arch’s strength.

First Year, Gwen Stricker, checks the arch’s strength.

Breaking the arch.

First Years, Sreya Chakraborty, Erin Murphy, Gwen Stricker, and Micah Tichenor built and broke an arch as part of the Association for Preservation Technology (APT) Preservation Engineering Technical Committee (PETC) Student Design Build Competition. Their team was advised by Tim Michiels. The competition is meant to expose students to the fundamentals of analyzing a historic masonry arch as well as the raw materials common in masonry preservation to get students thinking outside the box while dealing with masonry preservation.

Second Year, Gabriela Figuereo, presenting at ANAGPIC.

Second Year, Robert Kesack, presenting at ANAGPIC.

Second Years Gabriela Figuereo and Robert Kesack presented their theses, “Analysis of Mortars from Archaeological Stratigraphy: The Stadt Huys Block and Seven Hanover Square Excavations” and “Analyzing Digital Photogrammetry for Heritage Preservation,” at the 2019 ANAGPIC conference in Los Angeles on April 11th, hosted by the UCLA/Getty Conservation Program.

Internships and Careers

Bella Figuereo will be working as an intern at Jablonski Building Conservators this summer, conserving cemetery headstones and assisting with materials testing

Xianqi Fan will be working full time at the Forbidden City, recording restoration statistics and proposing an exhibition

Sarah Sargent will be working part-time at NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project, and part-time at AKRF this summer. In both positions Sarah will be doing archival research and writing, and at AKRF she will be surveying historic resources for a coastal resiliency project.

Erin Murphy will be working as an intern at WJE this summer.

Seo Jun Oh will be working at ICR-ICC this summer, supporting a conservation project.

Claire Cancilla will be working as an intern at BCA this summer, doing a research project.

Gwen Stricker will be working as an intern at Beyer Blinder Belle this summer in their preservation architecture studio.

Nina Lang will be working full time at Superstructures, doing facade restorations.

Ariane Prache will be working full time at Beyer Blinder Belle as an Architectural/Preservation Designer.

Scott Goodwin will be working as a research assistant at GSAPP this summer.

Drew Barnhart will be working as a preservation intern at Fallingwater this summer.

Fei Deng will intern at the Hall of Mental Cultivation in Beijing, China.

Qian Xu will be working part-time doing preservation work for the Chinese Academy of Cultural Heritage.

Allison Fricke will be interning with Beyer Blinder Belle this summer.

Huanlun Cheng will be an architecture intern this summer in China.

Sreya Chakraborty will be working as an architectural preservation intern with Jan Hird Pokorny Associates.

Yu Song will be working as an urban research intern at an architecture firm this summer.

Student Events

HP Potluck

Students and faculty came together for the Annual HP Potluck on January 24th with dishes from their home cities and countries.

Shreya, Nina & Bella

End of Year Party

Belmont Freeman hosted the program’s End of Year Party at his home in the local landmark Master Apartments.

Field Trips

First Year, Drew Barnhart, using a portable XRF scanner.

First Year, Erin Murphy, performing a sand extraction on mortar samples.

First Year, Kathleen Maloney Lo, collecting a mortar sample.

Second Year, Gabriela Figuereo, using a portable XRF scanner.

Second Year, Madeline Berry, using a moisture meter.

Investigative Techniques, taught by Amanda Trienens and Norman Weiss used new equipment from the Preservation Technology Lab to analyze architectural elements on campus.

Second Year, Myron Wang, using a low pressure wash to clean church ornament.

Second Year, Bella Figuereo, testing techniques to remove gypsum crust.

Second Year, Ryan Zeek, testing techniques to remove gypsum crust.

Investigative Techniques also travelled to St. Barths Cathedral on Park Avenue to gain experience with different stone cleaning methods.

Adaptation - Rebuilding American Cities class at Hotel Henry on the Richardson Olmsted Campus.

Adaptation - Rebuilding American Cities class at Northland Central Workforce Training Center.

Adaptation - Rebuilding American Cities class inside Hotel Henry on the Richardson Olmsted Campus.

Adaptation - Rebuilding American Cities class at Hotel Henry on the Richardson Olmsted Campus.

Barbara Campagna’s master class, Adaptation - Rebuilding American Cities, travelled to Buffalo, New York to visit two of Barbara’s adaptive reuse projects in the city: Northland Central Workforce Training Center and Hotel Henry on the Richardson Olmsted Campus.

Digital Heritage Documentation, taught by Bilge Kose, explored Columbia’s Prentiss Hall, taking hand measurements and performing photogrammetry.

Lectures

Norman Weiss at the 2019 Fitch Colloquium Keynote

The 2019 Fitch Colloquium, Record/Replay: On Data, Technology and Experimental Preservation was held on Feburary 15th at Columbia GSAPP. This year’s colloquium explored the use of digital technologies for capturing and reproducing reality to deepen our understanding and enrich our experience of built heritage. Speakers explored the future of Historic Preservation through the lens of experimental approaches to digital documentation, analysis, interpretation, archiving, sharing, visualization, and re-materialization of data. Various symposia between invited speakers examined cutting-edge processes involving the development and application of digital tools to projects of all scales, including high-resolution 3D scanning, gaming, computer-based visual pattern recognition, blockchain encryption, behavioral geo-tracking and interactive projection mapping, among others. Invited speakers included Yves Ubelmann, David Gissen, Dr. Hannah Lewi, Anaïs Aguerre, Chance Coughenour, Frédéric Kaplan, Pilar Bosch-Roig, Farzin Lofti-Jam, Caitlin Blanchfield, Ian Bogost, Arnaud Baernhoft, Carlos Benaïm, Emily L. Spratt, and Carlos Bayod.

Brent Leggs, Rosario Jackson, and Emma Ososre, moderated by Erica Avrami: Toward Spatial Justice Panel Discussion, February 7th

Norman Weiss: 2019 Fitch Colloquium Keynote: Building Science, February 14th

Barbara Campagna: Adaptation: Rebuilding American Cities, February 21st

Bilge Kose: Stratification of an Industrial Heritage Site: The Multi-layered Cultural Landscape of Seka Izmit Factory from Ancient Rome to Modern Turkey, March 7th

Robert Hewison: Going Round in Circles: European Conceptions of the Creative Industries, March 14th

John Waters: Preserving Wright: The Challenges of Preserving the Built Work of Frank Lloyd Wright, April 1st

Kaisa Barthuli: Route 66: Re-defining an American Icon Through Multiple Stories, Places, and Publics, April 4th

Annabelle Selldorf: Paul S. Byard Memorial Lecture: Building Continuity, April 15th

Angel Ayon: Reglazing Modernism Strategies for Interventions on Steel Frame Glazed Enclosures, April 18th

Luise Rellensmann: Making Heritage: Das Garagenmanifest, April 24th

Pinar Aykac: Musealisation as an Urban Process: The Transformation of the Sultanahmet District in Istanbul’s Historic Peninsula, April 24th

André Castro: Preservation of Modern Buildings: A Perspective from Brazilian Practice, May 1st

Alumni Events and Updates

GSAPP students past a present came together for the annual PA Bar Crawl sponsored by Preservation Alumni. This year’s Bar Crawl explored Manhattan’s Gramercy Park neighborhood, an historic district that’s centered on the second and last private square in New York.

Halley Ramos (‘17) of SOE Studio presented her augmented restoration project of San Baudelio de Berlanga in Soria, Spain. You can see a video describing her work here.

Alumni reunited for a GSAPP HP reception at the Preserving the Recent Past 3 conference in Los Angeles in March.