Amanda Thomas Trienens, AIC-PA, APT-RP, is an architecture and sculpture
conservator. Amanda has served as an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the M.S. in Historic Preservation Program at Columbia GSAPP since 2019. She teaches Investigative
Techniques which explores a variety of methods to understand buildings, their materials
and deteriorative mechanisms. She also serves as a thesis advisor and reader. She is
the Founder and Principal Conservator of Cultural Heritage Conservation.
Amanda has decades of experience working with a variety of buildings and art spanning
the 11th century to the modern age, locally and internationally. Her practice focuses on
research, testing and treatment implementation for material stabilization of heritage. She
has been on award winning teams for several projects, has published studies in leading
industry publications and presented papers at trade conferences. She has also been
involved in programs working to teach best practices in implementation and advocate for
the adherence to conservation principles.
Amanda received her master’s degree and an Advanced Conservation Certificate in
Architecture Conservation from the University of Pennsylvania. Her award-winning thesis
researched cured mortars and their properties for potential use in the Ayyubid Wall in
Cairo, Egypt. Her advanced certificate implemented a pilot project on micro-pinning for
the stabilization of fragments against loss of the Pennsylvania blue marble at the Second
Bank of the United States. It resulted in specifications for future project implementation.