11.947 | Spring 2007 | Graduate

History and Theory of Historic Preservation

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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
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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

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