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Track 1/Volet 1

CS1.4: A Monumental Task: Conserving, Rehabilitating, and Engaging with Symbolic Places

Saturday, November 16, 2024
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM EST
CE: 1.5

General Admission/Adminsion générale Simultaneous Interpretation Available/Interprétation simultanée disponible AIA CES Approved

This session has qualified for 1.5 LU|HSW Credits

Sharing their experiences in the conservation, rehabilitation, and stewardship of public places that hold meaning for their local communities, presenters share experiences and frameworks for carefully evaluating both materials and practice to ensure long term preservation. Through a range of case studies, papers in this session also interrogate key questions related to material conservation and repair. Ivan Myjer introduces participants to the complex challenges of conserving Bartholdi’s Monument to Liberty, artwork integrated directly into the masonry tower. David Wark encourages participants to customize Preservation Brief #16 for selecting exterior substitute materials by showcasing ongoing projects at the University of Oregon. Rashmi Gajare centres the local community and presents conservation work happening in tandem with stewardship in India. And Mary Jablonski reveals the process that went into carefully mending mistakes made to Constantino Nivola’s horses at a housing plaza in New York City.

HSW Justification
All four learning objectives relate to the HSW topics of project management, programming and analysis, and project development and documentation. The session focuses on a range of remedial interventions that enhance safety and well being with appropriate treatments for monumental artwork, including elements that are integrated into load bearing elements. The session also addresses community involvement in decision-making processes, encouraging social interaction and anchoring intervention in the local human experience.

Learning Objectives:

  • Upon completion, participants will be able to evaluate and re-evaluate key impacts related to material selection, deterioration, conservation, and repair.
  • Upon completion, participants will be able to identify why there is a need for selecting and recommending substitute materials.
  • Upon completion, participants will be able to describe issues of fostering local stewardship and promoting sustainable tourism through conservation efforts.
  • Upon completion, participants will be able to discuss the importance of undertaking and completing research, as well as materials testing/analysis, for conservation and restoration projects.

Presentations:

  • 11:00 AM – 11:20 AM EST
    (CS1.4) Conserving Frederic Bartholdi’s Nova Scotia Sandstone Monument to Liberty

    Speaker: Ivan Myjer – Building and Monument Conservation

    Session Chair: Brittney Anne Bos, PhD (she/her/hers) – ERA Architects

  • 11:20 AM – 11:40 AM EST
    (CS1.4) Rehabilitating Two National Historic Landmarks: Preservation Brief #16 and the Search for Exterior Materials that Outperform Wood

    Speaker: David E. Wark, FAIA – Hennebery Eddy Architects

    Session Chair: Brittney Anne Bos, PhD (she/her/hers) – ERA Architects

  • 11:40 AM – 11:50 AM EST
    (CS1.4) Community engagement for cultural stewardship: prehistoric Konkan geoglyphs in India

    Speaker: Rashmi Gajare – University of Texas at Austin

    Session Chair: Brittney Anne Bos, PhD (she/her/hers) – ERA Architects

  • 11:50 AM – 12:10 PM EST
    (CS1.4) Return of the Horses: A mistake mended with a great deal of research, testing and trial and error

    Speaker: Mary A. Jablonski – Jablonski Building Conservation, Inc.

    Session Chair: Brittney Anne Bos, PhD (she/her/hers) – ERA Architects