Passive Climate Management Features in Traditional Historic Buildings
Traditional historic buildings (built before 1945) were often built in ways that recognize the high degree of individual controllability that buildings that respond to their climate and region can have. Traditional and vernacular buildings, constructed before fossil fuels were in widespread use, required active participation of building occupants [...]
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True Green / Making Choices About Original Design Features
Posted in Buildings, Modernism and Recent Past, Sustainability, tagged Best Practices Manual, curtain wall, Farnsworth House, Glass House, Shadows on the Teche, traditional buildings on July 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Jenna Cellini named Robert Silman Fellow for Preservation Engineering
Posted in Buildings, Modernism and Recent Past, tagged Farnsworth House, Glass House, Jenna Cellini, Robert Silman Associates on April 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Jenna Cellini has joined the National Trust for Historic Preservation as the fourth Robert Silman Fellow for Preservation Engineering. The Silman Fellow works for six months in the Historic Sites Department under the direction of Graham Gund Architect Barbara Campagna, FAIA, LEED AP.
Jenna joins us from New York City where [...]
The Challenge of Interpreting 20th Century Historic Landmarks
Posted in Buildings, Interpretation, Marketing, Modernism and Recent Past, tagged Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Farnsworth, Farnsworth House, Flickr, Frank Lloyd Wright, Glass House, Mies van der Rohe, Mills College of Art, Philip Johnson, Yale School of Architecture Gallery on January 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Because two of the newest National Trust Historic Sites are regarded as modernist icons (Farnsworth House and the Philip Johnson Glass House), I’m often assessing how the mid-twentieth century is interpreted. Yesterday, Mills College of Art in northern California (in collaboration with the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum with the Yale School of Architecture Gallery) opened, [...]
2008: a year of resilience
Posted in Buildings, Collections, Disaster planning, tagged Farnsworth House, Galveston Historical Society, Illinois, Iowa, Northern States Conservation Center, Texas, University of Iowa on December 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Floods! Ice! High winds! Forest fires! As 2008 draws to a close, I’m sure I join many in wishing that 2009 will be a kindler, gentler year for our historic sites and museums.
The amazing thing about the dedicated people who work in the museum profession is that if a disaster comes along, there is always [...]
Are Historic Sites prepared for Disasters?
Posted in Buildings, Collections, Disaster planning, Resources, tagged Farnsworth House, Lyndhurst on September 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This year, National Trust Historic Sites have been pounded by hurricanes, inundated by rain and floods, and threatened by fire. We’re exhausted—and we’ve got three months to go!
Although the Heritage Health Index found that most museums and historic sites do NOT have a disaster or emergency response plan, I’m hoping recent events across the [...]
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