History and Theory of Historic Preservation

Lecture Notes

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