History and Theory of Historic Preservation

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SES #	TOPICS
1	Introduction: What is historic preservation?
2	The roots of historic preservation in the United States
3	Preservation in the 20th century: History and policy
4	The politics of significance: The President’s House on Independence Mall, Philadelphia
5	Preservation and interpretation: the Emily Dickinson museum
6	The politics of significance II: Poe, McKim and the NYU law school project Guest speaker: Susan Lowance, Kohn Pedersen Fox
7	If you can’t see it, can you preserve it? The danger of “integrity”
8	Adaptive reuse: The Charles Street jail redevelopment Guest speakers: Pamela Hawkes and Wolfgang Rudorf, Anne Beha architects
9	Preserving contemporary life: The ugly and ordinary and the high-style Guest speaker: Helene Lipstadt, MIT
10	Preserving modern architecture: The case of Aalto in Cambridge Guest speaker: David Fixler, Einhorn Yaffee Prescott, architecture and engineering
11	Reflections on contemporary preservation debates: the World Trade Center and New Orleans after Katrina
12	Final presentations