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MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR
Dear Preservation Program Community,
It is my distinct pleasure to present you with the collective achievements of Columbia’s Historic Preservation Program. I invite you to peruse the year-in-review below, as well as the program’s contribution to the GSAPP end-of-the-year show.
This academic year saw the welcome return to in-person instruction, after the pandemic had forced us into remote learning for a year and a half. While being together in the classroom brought back the joy of teaching and learning, I want to acknowledge how tough the year was, as many of you suffered through covid, had to care for loved ones, or were deprived of family gatherings due to travel restrictions–something that hit our international students especially hard. I am grateful to all our students, faculty and staff for all the extra efforts made this year. I am also very proud to see all of the work collected in this year-end roundup. The high quality of the studio projects, theses, and class assignments speaks volumes about your grit, intelligence, creativity and esprit de corp.
We celebrate the graduating MsHP class of ‘22. You took a leap of faith and began the program online in Fall 2020, not knowing if and when classes would return to in person instruction. I remember calling many of you to check in on you, and having frank discussions about the difficulties you were each experiencing. I was so impressed by how all of you persevered into your second year. For Prof. Rakatansky and I, it was so rewarding to have some of you in Studio III, exploring the intersection of preservation and climate change in collaboration with the Climate School. The faculty and I enjoyed seeing your faces light up during classes, as ideas sparked in your minds that would eventually develop into extraordinarily strong theses covering topics from climate change adaptation to olfaction, from the intellectual history of our program’s founder to the latest projection mapping technologies, from the preservation or prewar model homes to that of postwar rowhouses, and so much more. These research projects are truly inspiring, and will doublessly make important contributions to the discipline. I want to highlight the outstanding thesis awards received by Andres Davila and Lindsay Papke, as well as the Kinne Traveling Prize received by Luxi Yang. Teerat “Preme” Chaiyatham won the Peer to Peer Award. The Onera Prize in Historic Preservation was awarded to Ziming Wang. Congratulations class of ‘22!
Hot on their heels is the class of ‘23, which stepped confidently into the program’s SLAB curriculum last Fall. Through the lenses of Studio I with Profs. Dolkart and Reggev, and Studio II with Profs. Avrami and O’Hara, you focused an unusual light on what preservation can do to imagine a better future for Harlem. Your collective experimental and creative forces were palpable in all your lecture and lab courses, and we are looking forward to how you will bring them to bear on your summer internships and thesis research.
Students from both years, under the supervision of Prof. Michiels, won the national APT bridge competition this year with a design inspired by the Brooklyn Bridge. Congratulations on this well deserved honor!
It is worth noting that this year we admitted our first part-time student, Anne Foster, who is combining her education with a successful professional practice. Other MsHP students that started this year will also be in the program longer as they pursue joint degrees in M.Arch and MsUP.
In the doctoral program, PhD candidate Shuyi Yin successfully defended her dissertation proposal, advancing to what is known as the “all but dissertation” stage. Anna Gasha successfully passed her PhD qualifying exams. Congratulations to Shuyi and Anna on these significant accomplishments.
A lot happens in the background to support everyone’s work in the program. In the head office, we welcomed architect Sarahgrace Goodwin, who has brought a new level of professionalism and sophisticated Southern cheer to the program. Mika Tal was on maternity leave for part of the year, and we all rejoiced at the pictures of baby Amitai last October. We are now officially the GSAPP academic unit with the most babies, and therefore the cutest.
In the Preservation Technology Lab, Mika Tal, Andre Paul Jauregui (acting Lab Manager) and our Lab Technicians completed digitizing our historic materials library and making it searchable on MaterialOrder.org, a collaboration with Harvard University and RISD. The official launch will be next Fall, so stay tuned. This new resource will set the foundation for new curricular innovations in how we teach preservation technology. In addition, the historic materials library is the basis for a new series of videos featuring “one professor / one material” made possible through a grant from the Mellon Foundation and the American Institute of Conservation.
As always, the Preservation Faculty has been incredibly active this year, not only teaching but also publishing cutting edge research, lecturing at universities and conferences across the globe, participating in international exhibitions, and carrying out professional projects. Among the important honors and recognitions received by the faculty, I want to highlight Prof. Avrami’s Preservation Alumni Leadership Award, and Prof. Jablonski’s Founder’s Award from the Historic House Trust. It is a great source of pride and inspiration to see our faculty at the forefront of the discipline and the profession.
You will find all of this and more in the review below. There was no better stage to celebrate all these collective achievements than the magnificent New York harbor. It was pure pleasure to see everyone at our end of the year party with smiles on their faces, enjoying the view from the historic John J. Harvey Fireboat, with our host Alumnus Huntley Gill at the helm.
With that image of joy impressed in my mind, I salute you all for your remarkable achievements this year.
Hip hip, Hurray!
Jorge
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PROGRAM UPDATES
Preservation in China’s Future
The 2022 Fitch Colloquium brought a number of prominent Chinese architects to Columbia (virtually) to discuss how they are engaging with preservation to imagine new forms of creativity and cultural relevance. The event was organized by the Historic Preservation Program at Columbia GSAPP in collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
WATCH HERE Day 1 Day 2
PRESERVATION TECHNOLOGY LAB
Student Luxi Yang has been busy working on the videos for the “one professor / one material” video series. This series highlights the materials in the Historic Preservation Technology Laboratory and the methods, theories, and tools of the preservation program’s expert practitioners. These informative materials-focused videos will give a glimpse into testing methods and the knowledge derived from those tests. So far we have recorded videos from 9 professors and have have posted the first three videos with Norman Weiss, Andre Paul Jauregui and Richard Pieper. We plan to publish the remaining videos soon.
Our other students, Preme Chaiyatham, Shannon Trono, and Winnie Michi have worked with lab staff Mika Tal and Andre Paul Jauregui (acting Lab Manager) to digitize the historic materials from the lab as part of a collaboration with Harvard University and RISD. This project will officially launch sometime next fall.
Spring 2022 Preservation Technology Lab Staff: Interim Lab Manager Andre Jauregui and students Winnie Michi Trujillo, Shannon Trono, and Preme Chaiyatham
NEW STAFF
Sarahgrace Godwin joined us as the new Project Manger in November.
NEW FACULTY
Kyle Normandin joined the Historic Preservation program as an adjunct faculty member this spring teaching Building Conservation Assessment. Kyle is an Associate Principal at Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates Inc. in New York City where he has over twenty years of experience in historic preservation. He has also worked as Senior Project Specialist at the Getty Conservation Institute where he worked under the Conserving Modern Architecture Initiative, and he has contributed numerous technical papers on architectural conservation of cultural heritage.
NEW STUDENTS
Kemuning Adiputri, Elaf Alsibyani, Adam Brodheim, Daoxin Chen, Emily Conklin, Schuyler Daniel, Jacqueline Danielyan, Kerrian France, Michelle Leach, Xiyu Li, Dana Lieber, Winnie Grace Michi Trujillo, Nina Nahitchevansky, Shivani Rajwade, Jerry Schmit, Yinjie (Jacky) Tian, Shannon Trono, Mimi Vaughan, Hongye Wang, Wenjing, Xue, Clara Wayee Yip, Damiana Yousef, Zihao Zhang, Shuya Zhao
Backgrounds include Architecture, dramatic arts, literature, urban design, Journalism, furniture design, Art History, Heritage management, Architectural conservation, Environmental design, Finance, Studio art, Architectural History
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GRADUATION PRIZES
Congratulations to the Class of 2021 for all their hard work! We are thrilled to announce the winners of this year’s 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.
Ziming Wang
Living Above the Street: Stewarding New York City’s Historic Built Environment Towards Flood Resilience
FACULTY AWARDS FOR OUTSTANDING THESIS
For a master’s thesis that best demonstrates excellence in the field of Historic Preservation.
Lindsay Christine Papke
Interrogating the Olfactory Landscape: Means and Methods for Analyzing Changing Smellscapes as a Character-Defining Feature of Place, Advisor: Erica Avrami
Andrés Álvarez-Dávila
Technology and James Marston Fitch’s Turn to Preservation, Advisor: Jorge Otero-Pailos
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.
Luxi Yang
The Traditional Huizhou Village and its Carpenter System: A Case Study of Jintan Village
PEER TO PEER AWARD
This non-monetary, student-nominated award is given in recognition of outstanding service to classmates, faculty, and school.
Teerat “Preme” Chaiyatham
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THESES
Congratulations to the Class of 2022 for all submitting incredible theses amidst this arduous year!
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Andres Alvarez-Davila: Modern Technology and James Marston Fitch’s Turn to Preservation
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Preme Chaiyatham: And There Was Light: The Use of Projection Mapping for Historic Preservation
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Jonathan Clemente: Leaf-Induced Damage to Finishes for Outdoor Bronze Sculpture
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Christie Hotz: Preserving Places of Hip-Hop in the Bronx, 1973 to 1983
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Jesse Kling: “Solid Brick Homes”: The Continuing Row House Tradition of Postwar Brooklyn and Queens
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Steph LeBlanc: Landmark Designation in Major League Baseball and the Continued Efforts to Preserve America’s Pastime
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Lindsay Papke: Interrogating the Olfactory Landscape: Means and Methods for Analyzing Changing Smellscapes as a Character-Defining Feature of Place
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Valerie Smith: The Small House Movement of the 1920s: Preserving Small “Better” Houses
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Meghan E. Vonden Steinen: Effects of Fire-Related Heat Damage on Interior Architectural Paint Finishes
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Ziming Wang: Living Above the Street: Flood Retrofitting and Adaptive Streetscape of New York City’s Historic Districts
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Jianing Wei: East Meets West in Cheeloo University: A Hybrid Architecture in China and its Preservation
- Luxi Yang: A Critical Analysis of the Yin Yu Tang Project and the Preservation of Huizhou-Style Vernacular Dwellings in China
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STUDIOS
Studio I
Instructor
Andrew Dolkart, Claudia Kavenagh, Kate Reggev
Studio Title
Historic Preservation Studio 1
Description
Studio I is the central focus of the first semester of the Historic Preservation program, and a foundational course within the program. Studio I engaged students in questions of preservation and its role in the context of the built environment and its larger cultural manifestations. The course focused on developing skills primarily using NYC as our classroom. Specifically, our study area for much of the semester was South Harlem. The Studio encouraged students to think about existing preservation tools, work with a variety of methods for exploring the field, and develop the ability to assess what has been learned in order to come to a conclusion about significance. The Studio offered models for approaching preservation questions and for considering the diverse roles of the preservationist in contemporary practice.
Malcolm Shabazz Mosque, located at 102 West 116th Street in New York City, was one of the first purposely-designed mosques and the biggest one to be built in its period in the Harlem area. Muhammad’s Temple of Islam Number 7 was renamed in 1976 to commemorate Malcolm X’s legacy as one of the congregation’s leaders in 1956-1964. Initially, this mosque belonged to the Nation of Islam, a Black nationalist organization promoting “Islam” in a significantly different form from traditional Islam, but currently, this mosque hosts a Sunni Islam congregation, which is one of the most significant branches of Islam right now, followed by around 90% of Muslims around the world. Today, the leader of this mosque is Imam Izak El-Pasha, the first American-born leader this organization has ever had.
Acknowledging the significance of history, buildings, and culture will contribute to preservation. This paper will discuss the history and evaluate the significance of a building located on 125th and 124th Streets using various tools and methods such as archival research, site assessment, historical documentation, etc. The building is located at 256 West 125th Street between Adam Clayton Powell Jr Blvd. and Frederick Douglass Blvd in the South Harlem neighborhood, Manhattan, New York. It is a two-story, L-shape, mid-block building facing Apollo theatre. It had different functions through the years. In 1900, the building was first built as Pabst Harlem, a restaurant and dance hall. After that, from 1920 until 2017, it became a retail store. Then, from 2017 until now, it has been used by a gym and telecommunication company.
Arthur A. Schomburg Plaza is an early 1970s housing development opposite the northeast corner of Central Park. Spanning a full block from 110th Street to 111th Street, east of Fifth Avenue, it was developed by the New York State Urban Development Corporation to provide approximately 600 units of middle-income housing, as well as community and commercial spaces. The site consists of three primary residential structures: two 35 story octagonal towers, on the corner of Central Park, and a lower slab building along Madison Avenue separated by a raised plaza above a parking garage.
200 to 206 St. Nicholas Avenue is a group of four residential buildings, located at the northeast corner of Saint Nicholas Avenue and West 120 Street. According to the Record and Build Guide, the four five-story stone front flats, named Scotia, were built in 1889. The architect, C.P.H. Gilbert, designed it for the owner David T. Kidd.
132-140 West 125th Street houses a moribund SNAP food center on 125th street is an invaluable key to decoding Harlem’s dynamic cultural and developmental history. An impressive building of the Romanesque Revival style, it stands six stories tall above Harlem’s major commercial thoroughfare between Malcolm X and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevards. Though much of its light colored brick and terra-cotta facade is hidden behind scaffolding today, it’s impossible to miss the iconic nameplate above the cornice, pronouncing “Koch & Co.” in pressed metal. Yet when walking down the busy street into the Jimmy Jazz discount clothing store on the ground level, or perusing street vendor wares like incense, disposable masks, and colorfully printed clothes, it may be easy to forget to look up. Yet the story behind this building’s name takes us through Harlem’s history as a thriving center of development, a haven for immigrant communities, and its integration as a major New York City neighborhood. Through my exploration of 132-140 West 125th Street’s history, it is clear that this is a building that deserves to be preserved and recognized for its historic significance today.
While assessing the significance of any building and architectural creation, many observations are taken into consideration. These considerations reflect the role of the building, its past history, and future relationship within the context of connections within the neighborhood and community. The Faison Firehouse Theater, located in the neighborhood of Harlem on 6 Hancock Place has held a significant role throughout its time, still continuing its important standing to this day. A various amount of significance was determined, through research about the architect, the building’s assessment within program changes, the owners, as well as the predominant impact 6 Hancock Place has made in Harlem.
For Studio I, I studied the history and significance of 225 Lenox Avenue on the northwest corner of Lenox and West 121st street in South Harlem, New York. The most significant factor about the history of 225 Lenox Avenue is that though it has always acted as a religious building, it has changed in terms of its congregation over time, and the changes in occupancy have always reflected the demographic and cultural changes in the South Harlem neighborhood. Throughout each of its phases in South Harlem’s history, the cultural shifts have also manifested in the congregation’s physical expression on the building itself.
In the block between 113th and 114th on Lenox Avenue (also known as Malcom X Boulevard) in South Harlem is a three-story building with a light blue facade. It is smaller than its neighbors, but it makes up for it with its elegance. 73-75 Lenox Avenue has one of the few remaining cast-iron facades in South Harlem. Built in 1903, Westminster Hall has had many uses and its changes often reflected the progression of Harlem over the last century. Today it has many common features of cast-iron architecture. These include large windows and repetitive crisp details on its columns and friezes. While the historical color of the building is unknown, the building is currently painted a light blue, standing out from its surroundings. This building is significant for its architecture as well as its important role serving south Harlem as the area developed and evolved.
The building chosen for the significance assessment is located at 204-210 West, 122nd Street. It is a row of row houses. The report will include four parts to analyze the buildings, which are the basic information, the building design, the reflection of Harlem history, and the potential intervention. The significance of the building is mainly represented by the building design, especially the material, and the reflection of Harlem history.
The Bernheimer Building, located at 101 West 116th Street in Harlem, is a 1906 tenant business building situated within a primarily residential district with close proximity to the two subway line. Its current condition represents the myriad of uses to which it has been witness in its 126-years of service to Harlem.
2081 Adam Clayton Powell Jr Blvd stands on the northwest corner of Adam Clayton Powell Jr Blvd and West 124th Street in New York City. It is a five-story modern building that serves as The Greater Refuge Temple church, a local African American congregation founded by Bishop Robert C. Lawson in 1919 under the original name of the Refuge Church of Christ that consists of more than 3500 believers today. The building has two façades facing the street: one characteristic main façade made in prefabricated concrete and covered with stucco facing the west decorated with four repetitive sets of six vibrant colors and a 45-foot high gold anodized aluminum cross anchored on the right; another facade facing the southwest covered in monochromatic stucco. The base is covered with diorite. The only entrance is on the center of the main façade with nine solar-tempered glass doors, covered with a concrete canopy extending from the front of the building to the edge of the curb.
All Souls Episcopal church is located at 88 St. Nicholas Ave in South Harlem. This building was built in the year 1900. Its estimated cost was 50,000, and now the value of the church has become priceless seeing the astonishing impact it has on its community. This paper will examine three main issues, including background information on the building itself, its history, and the overall significance and possible improvements that will help benefit the church and the community.
The building chosen for the significance assessment is located at 204-210 West, 122nd Street. It is a row of row houses. The report will include four parts to analyze the buildings, which are the basic information, the building design, the reflection of Harlem history, and the potential intervention. The significance of the building is mainly represented by the building design, especially the material, and the reflection of Harlem history.
Studio II
Instructor
Erica Avrami, Morgan O'Hara
Studio Title
Environmental and Climate Justice in Harlem:
Interrogating Environmental Histories through Preservation
Description
The Spring 2022 Studio II responds to legislation (Local Laws 60 + 64) to identify and address climate and environmental justice concerns in New York City. Students extended beyond policy and legal frameworks of Environmental Justice to bring a place-based and community-engaged approach to better understand the complexity of Environmental Justice histories and their implications over time. Students used preservation methodologies to investigate the social-spatial dynamics and place-based dimensions of communities that evince these factors and demonstrate their longitudinal manifestation. This studio applied a preservation lens to examine how environmental injustice and climate vulnerability are socially constructed over time through policies, practices, and projects that shape landscapes and the built environment, and privilege/disprivilege the publics that inhabit them.
3D Scan of Audubon Ballroom
The Harlem Sky: Viewsheds and Energy Open-Scapes
This proposal seeks to reconcile the relationship between preservation, energy, development, a...
Public Outdoor Swimming Pool Reimagined
Our proposal is a redesign of current public outdoor swimming pools into seasonally adaptive o...
Melting
MELTING is a temporary art installation that works as a tool to provoke viewers’ thoughts abou...
Visualizing Harlem’s Green History
Green resources and open spaces have been an important part of Harlem, throughout history lead...
Studio III
Instructor
Jorge Otero-Pailos, Mark Rakatansky
Studio Title
Enacting Our Environmental Entanglements: Innovation-Renovation at the Columbia Climate School’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Description
This studio proposed an investigation into the ways design can visibly enact our own and its own environmental entanglements through the design of a carbon-zero interpretative commons-building and the adaptive reuse of the original manor house for the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. The fundamental lessons of ecological understanding have been to make evident these entangled interrelations between species and their environment in terms of behavioral, energetic, and informational exchanges. This studio proposed environments that spatialize these relational circulations of mediated environmental matter (air, water, waste), energies (structural and thermal loads), and information (among the scientists and with the visiting public).
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LECTURES AND TALKS
Columbia GSAPP Historic Preservation hosted four virtual & in-person lectures through the 2021-2022 Preservation Lecture Series. Recordings of each lecture are linked below and descriptions can be found on our Events page!
Aaron Passell “Preserving Neighborhoods: How Urban Policy and Community Strategy Shape Baltimore and Brooklyn” Sep 30, 2021
Jerome Haferd “An Archeology of Architecture: the Harlem and Pine Street African Burial Grounds” Oct 14, 2021
Carlos Mínguez Carrasco “Kiruna Forever: Relocating a City in Territories of Extraction” Oct 21, 2021
RIchard Pieper “The Bronx is Up and the Battery’s Down” Nov 11, 2021
Saburo Horikawa “To Preserve is to Change: A Sociology of Historic Preservation” Mar 24, 2022
Ivi Diamantopoulou and Jaffer Kolb Before and After Mar 30, 2022
Najha Zigbi-Johnson “Reframing Power: Exploring the Politics and Legacy of Malcolm X as a Social Justice Framework in Preservation and Beyond” Apr 14, 2022
Manish Chalana “Evaluating Equity and Inclusion in Historic Preservation in India” Apr 21, 2022
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FIELD TRIPS AND EVENTS
Richard D. Pieper took students to the Grand Central Pillar in Van Cortland Park. They are a series of thirteen pillars made out of different stones that were being tested for the eventual erection of Grand Central Terminal
The Architectural Finishes class made a site visit to the Morgan Library March 29th where paper conservator Reba Fishman Snyder gave a wonderful lecture on wallpaper and tour of the paper conservation laboratory. The wallpaper lecture incorporated wallpaper from the Jay Heritage Center which is the class study site.
Students in Kyle Normandin’s Building Conservation Assessment class visited Lincoln Center to learn about the restoration of the complex’s travertine facade
Students visited the Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center where they undertook digital documentation to record existing conditions at the Audubon Ballroom
Students in Kyle Normandin’s Building Conservation Assessment class visited Philip Johnson’s Glass House in Connecticut
Amanda Trienens’s Investigative Techniques class visited the Carleton Labs on Columbia’s Campus.
To celebrate our recent graduates and the end of classes, students and faculty stepped on board the Fireboat John J. Harvey for our End of Year Party.
Special thanks to alumni Huntley Gill for making this possible and giving us an afternoon we won’t soon forget.
To celebrate our recent graduates and the end of classes, students and faculty stepped on board the Fireboat John J. Harvey for our End of Year Party.
Special thanks to alumni Huntley Gill for making this possible and giving us an afternoon we won’t soon forget.
To celebrate our recent graduates and the end of classes, students and faculty stepped on board the Fireboat John J. Harvey for our End of Year Party.
Special thanks to alumni Huntley Gill for making this possible and giving us an afternoon we won’t soon forget.
To celebrate our recent graduates and the end of classes, students and faculty stepped on board the Fireboat John J. Harvey for our End of Year Party.
Special thanks to alumni Huntley Gill for making this possible and giving us an afternoon we won’t soon forget.
To celebrate our recent graduates and the end of classes, students and faculty stepped on board the Fireboat John J. Harvey for our End of Year Party.
Special thanks to alumni Huntley Gill for making this possible and giving us an afternoon we won’t soon forget.
To celebrate our recent graduates and the end of classes, students and faculty stepped on board the Fireboat John J. Harvey for our End of Year Party.
Special thanks to alumni Huntley Gill for making this possible and giving us an afternoon we won’t soon forget.
To celebrate our recent graduates and the end of classes, students and faculty stepped on board the Fireboat John J. Harvey for our End of Year Party.
Special thanks to alumni Huntley Gill for making this possible and giving us an afternoon we won’t soon forget.
To celebrate our recent graduates and the end of classes, students and faculty stepped on board the Fireboat John J. Harvey for our End of Year Party.
Special thanks to alumni Huntley Gill for making this possible and giving us an afternoon we won’t soon forget.
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STUDENT NEWS
ATPNE awarded Preme Chaiyatham ‘22 their 2022 APTNE Scholarship. Chaiyatham also spoke at the 2022 ATPNE Symposium presenting her work And There was Light: The Use of Projection Mapping for Historic Preservation
APTNE announced that Shannon Trono was the recipient of the 2022 Melissa Morrissey Scholarship
The Preservation League of New York State was proud to announce that HP student Emily Conklin is one of their 2022 Zabar Scholars
Columbia students collect their first place trophy from this year’s Design-Build Competition by The Association for Preservation Technology International. This year’s theme was the Masonry Arch.
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FACULTY NEWS
Erica Avrami was celebrated with Preservation Alumni’s Leadership Award. Professor Avrami spoke with New York City’s Urban Green Council about “Historic Buildings, Modern Policies” and was a featured guest on Preserve Cast to discuss “Sustainability, Equity, and Preservation”. Avrami along with alumnae Jennifer Most and Shreya Ghoshal, and doctoral student Anna Gasha were published in the Journal for Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development for their new study, Energy and Historic Buildings: Toward evidence-based policy reform.. Professor Avrami also was published by the National Trust for her blogpost look at “Next-Generation Preservation Policy: Interrogating the Status Quo”.
Andrew Dolkart led a walk focusing on the Gay History of Greenwich Village for the Municipal Arts Society of New York’s annual Jane’s Walk weekend. He also discussed preserving LGBT history with the National Trust of Canada and “The Rebirth of the Terraced House” a lecture to the Decorative Art’s Society of the UK on the redesigning of houses in the 20th Century. Just recently he was in the New York Times discussing the preservation of the Parkchester housing complex in the Bronx.
Jorge Otero-Pailos was named Roy Lichtenstein Artist in Residence at the American Academy in Rome. His artworks were exhibited at: Frieze Sculpture in Regent’s Park, London; Tai Kwun Centre for Heritage and Arts, Hong Kong; Museion, Modern and Contemporary Art Museum in Bolzano, Italy; American Academy in Rome; Holtermann Fine Art, London; Sapar Contemporary Art, New York; and at Lyndhurst Mansion, Tarrytown. His new book Fragmentos De-escritos / De-scribed Fragments (Spanish and English) was published by ARQ Ediciones. A catalog of his Distributed Monuments was published by Sapar Contemporary. He contributed the chapter “Preservación Experimental y Dinamismo Social del Patrimonio,” [Experimental Preservation and the Social Dynamism of Heritage] in the book Sobre Monumentos Públicos (Ediciones Universidad Católica de Chile). The American Historical Review published “Smell, History and Heritage” a conversation between Prof. Otero-Pailos and other leading experts on the topic. He was interviewed in international TV and FM Radio programs. He was the keynote speaker for the Interior Provocations Symposium at Pratt Institute, and delivered the Agnes Rindge Claflin Memorial Lecture of the Department of Art at Vassar College. He was also an invited speaker at the Royal College of Art, UK, Universitat de Girona, Spain, Carnegie Mellon University, Syracuse University, and the Illinois Institute of Technology. He continued his service on the Board of the Jay Heritage Center in Rye, and joined New York City’s Public Design Commission’s Conservation Advisory Group.
Mary Jablonski will be honored at the Historic House Trust’s Founders Award Dinner for her contribution in areas significant to the organizations mission.
Bilge Kose presented a new story map on Preserving Significant Places of Black History to the Northeast Arc Users Group.
Richard Pieper was chosen to discuss the topic of, Architectural Cast Stone: History, Manufacture, Performance, and Repair in a webinar for OGS in Albany & GSA in Washington.
Theodore Prudon’s article, “Preservation of Public Housing in America” in Journal 65 “Housing for All” was published by Docomomo International, Lisbon, Portugal
Kate Reggev is a contributing author to a recent book published by Routledge, The Routledge Companion to Women in Architecture. Her chapter examines midcentury husband-and-wife architectural partnerships and the complex roles that women had to play in these partnerships, which were often the only way for a woman to remain in the profession and have a family. Reggev was also interviewed by the New York Times discussing the resurgence of 1970s design and disco balls.
Mika Tal has returned from maternity leave after welcomed baby Amitai last October.
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ALUMNI NEWS
Maura Carey Whang ‘19 announced that Deborah Berke Partners just published a new white paper on adaptive reuse, written with their colleagues at Atelier Ten. The white paper articulates the promise of transforming old buildings to not only sustainably extend their life, but to reestablish their relevance to the communities they serve.
André Jauregui '18 and Halley Ramos '18 were published by the Washington Post for their work on the latest 3D scanning and visualization project by HP alumni on the Tenement Museum. They collaborated with Kolin Pope, three-time Emmy nominated animator and director. The project pushes the boundaries of preservation technology at the intersection of documentation and public interpretation.
Neela Wickremesinghe ’11, Manager of Preservation and Restoration at Green-Wood, and her staff guided the Fall Work Day at Green-Wood Cemetery. On October 23rd, more than a dozen HP students and alumni gathered at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn to uncover tombstones. The team successfully located and excavated twelve tombstones dating to the late-1800s.
Tonia Sing Chi ‘18 and her team from the NÁÁTS'ÍLID INITIATIVE were awardees in the monument lab Re:Generation competition. Re:Generation – a nationwide participatory public art and history project launching in Spring 2022. The goal: to elevate the next generation of monuments that reckons with and reimagines public memory. The project subgrants a total of $1 Million across ten local field offices led by collaborative teams of artists, educators, storytellers, and organizers. Each team will pursue a commemorative campaign rooted in the living history of a neighborhood, city, or region.
Matthew Coody joined NYC Audubon as Director of Development
On May 19th we welcomed back the Class of 2020 and the Class of 2021 for an in person graduation and reception.
Alumni from the class of 2020 (from left to right): Sreya Chakraborty, Mariana Avila Flynn, Emily Junker, Sarah Sargent, Scott Goodwin, Annie, Noramon Bodhidatta, Sage Kim, Qian Xu, Kathleen Maloney
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CAREER SERVICES
On February 11th, GSAPP Career Services hosted its all GSAPP Virtual Employer Networking Event. All together the event had over 73 employers booths and met with around 400 students in one-on-one meetings and group webinars. Many of our students participated in the day’s events which resulted in several offers for both jobs and summer internships. We want thank the many alumni and employers who helped make this event possible including:
- Beyer Blinder Belle
- Building Conservation Associates, Inc.
- Dudek
- FEMA
- Henson Architecture
- Jablonski Building Conservation, Inc.
- Li/Saltzman Architects
- Simpson Gumpertz & Heger
- SUPERSTRUCTURES Engineers + Architects
Leading up to the event, GSAPP Career Services hosted several workshops and offered professional headshots for all the students. As we head into the summer, we are already making plans for next year’s in-person Career Fair and will continue to aid in scheduling events and informationals sessions with employers to support the students in finding jobs and internships.
GSAPP Career Services is planning to continue its programming through the month of June to support our recent graduates by hosting a number of events including resume, cover letter, portfolio, interviewing and salary negotiation workshops.