*This is a free, virtual event, time noted in PDT. Zoom link will be sent prior to the event.
Join accomplished preservationists Colleen Chapin, David Fixler, FAIA, Peyton Hall, FAIA, Thomas “Gunny” Harboe, FAIA, and Greg Maxwell, AIA, in a conversation about saving historical buildings. We will explore the following:
What makes a building historically significant?
What are the criteria to determine if it is worth saving?
How should we restore historical buildings to make them relevant for today?
What’s the difference between saving and transforming an historical building?
What are the benefits of preserving and restoring historical buildings?
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Colleen Chapin joined BCA in 2017 with over a decade of experience in historic preservation, working at the region’s oldest and largest non-profit preservation organization, Historic New England (formerly the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, SPNEA). She has expertise in complex project management, property management, and hands-on preservation implementation. At Historic New England, Colleen was responsible for the preservation, maintenance, and capital improvements of 18 properties ranging in construction dates from the 17th to the 20th centuries.
At BCA, Colleen brings a strong understanding of building science, social and architectural history of the East Coast, and modern technology to lead historical research, building condition evaluations, treatment recommendations, and project management. She has worked on a wide variety of building assessment and planning projects across a wide range of building periods from the 17th century through the 20th century.
Colleen has participated on the teams that developed Cultural Management Plans under the Getty’s Keeping it Modern program for the Walter Gropius house and Boston City Hall. This work has led to a greater appreciation for modern architecture and the material and social challenges often associated with these buildings.
David Fixler, FAIA FAPT LEED, is Principal of David Fixler Architecture Planning Preservation and Lecturer in Architecture, Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He is an internationally recognized leader in the conservation of historic buildings and sites with a focus on structures of the mid-20th century. His projects include buildings designed by modern masters including Alvar Aalto, Louis Kahn, Le Corbusier and Eero Saarinen, and he has authored several Conservation Management Plans for modern buildings. David co-founded Docomomo-US/New
England and the Association for Preservation Technology Technical Committee on Modern Heritage and serves as a Design Excellence Peer Review Architect for the United States General Services Administration and Harvard University. He has had his design and written work published internationally in trade and scholarly books and journals and has lectured extensively around the world.
Peyton Hall, FAIA, is the Principal Architect Emeritus at Historic Resources Group in Pasadena, California, and Adjunct Professor in the Heritage Conservation program at the University of Southern California. He has a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Virginia and a Master of Environmental Design from Yale University. Post-graduate studies include a certificate from the Center for Palladian Studies in Vicenza, Italy, and an NEA research fellowship at the National Cultural Properties Institute in Tokyo, Japan.
Mr. Hall is Chair Emeritus of the Advisors to the AIA’s Historic Resources Committee, former trustee of US/ICOMOS (World Heritage USA), and former President of the California Preservation Foundation. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the California Preservation Foundation in 2021.
Completed work includes historic structure reports for the Gamble House, Doris Duke’s Shangri-La, and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Freeman and Ennis Houses, and a recent conservation assessment for Drayton Hall. He has completed projects at Angels Flight Funicular Railway, the Rose Bowl Stadium, Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, the Annenberg Community Beach House (Marion Davies Guest House), the Wallis Annenberg Center for Performing Arts (Beverly Hills Post Office), and Grauman’s Egyptian and Chinese Theatres.
Thomas “Gunny” Harboe, FAIA, F. US/ICOMOS, is an internationally recognized architect dedicated to the conservation of the world’s cultural heritage. Gunny has over 35 years of experience and runs his own Chicago based firm with a focus on preservation and sustainable design. He has worked on many iconic modern masterpieces including numerous works by Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Sullivan. His work has been recognized with dozens of national and local awards, and he has received numerous other honors including being named a “2001 Young Architect” by the National AIA, and “Chicagoan of the Year” by Chicago Magazine in 2010, as well as the “Excellence in Heritage Conservation 2015” by Society of Architectural Historians.
Among his many professional activities, Gunny was a founding member and is a current board member of Docomomo US and a founding member and past President of the ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on 20th Century Heritage (ISC20C). He is also a past board member of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy, AIA National Board, and Landmarks Illinois. Gunny is also an Adjunct Professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology and is NCARB certified and licensed in nine states and the District of Columbia.
Greg Maxwell, AIA, is an architect with seven years of experience in architecture and preservation. He received his Bachelor of Architecture degree in 2015 from the New Jersey Institute of Technology that included studies in Barcelona, Spain and Rome and Siena, Italy.
Greg received his M. Sc. Historic Preservation, with honors, in 2021 from the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design. His concentration in preservation design was supplemented with additional academic work as a Research Fellow at the Center for Architectural Conservation. There, he gained experience working at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin and several National Park Service sites including Fort Union National Monument, Pecos National Historical Park, Tuzigoot National Monument, and Catoctin Mountain Park. Some of his graduate research was presented at the annual conference for the American Institute for Conservation (AIC) in May 2022. He was named a John G. Thorpe Fellow in 2022 by the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy.
Greg is a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and he holds his National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) Certificate. He is a member of the Association for Preservation Technology (APT) and DOCOMOMO US/Chicago and is currently serving as a board member of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy.