Considering the cultural losses that each demolished building represents, and carefully weaving that history back into the reconstruction process, is just as critical.
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You’ve likely seen it on walks across the UC Berkeley campus — the little one-story red brick building northeast of Sproul Hall and near Strawberry Creek.
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UC San Francisco has selected a historic preservation firm for the delicate task of relocating a series of 10 New Deal-era murals from a seismically vulnerable building on UCSF’s Parnassus Heights campus.
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Every once in a while, a piece of art will fundamentally change the way you see the world. That’s what happened to Carlie Wilmans the first time she visited 500 Capp Street.
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After three years stored away in safe keeping, the Monterey Conference Center’s mosaic mural is finally being re-installed.
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The architect and artist speaks about the GSAPP's new historic preservation Ph.D program.
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In an age when the tools of education such as books, notepads, and ballpoint pens are becoming obsolete, campus buildings are being reinvented, one by one […] So how should we approach preservation planning?
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“He wanted the Capitol to rival the great palaces of Europe and to impress visitors, conveying the message that America had culturally come of age.”
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"The idea of cooling a house in hot climates is nothing new—ancient Egypt used courtyards to promote air flow through buildings," says Jonathan Hogg…
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Today, the vast majority of Gilded Age mansions aren’t being used as family homes, and very few are still owned by the original family.
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Just four weeks ago the city unveiled the newly restored William McKinley Monument in Golden Gate Park restoration. It only lasted about two weeks.
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Debates over historic preservation often run into a problem: There’s plenty of data to support economic arguments, and much less to address questions of cultural value. A research team in Singapore wants to change that.
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