Preliminary Program

Thursday, November 3

1:00 PM−2:30 PM

Welcome to the SCUP Campus Heritage Symposium

Pamela Delphenich, Director of Campus Planning & Design, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Symposium Co-Chair
Jolene Knapp, Executive Director, Society for College and University Planning
Robert Nalls, Principal, Nalls Architecture, Inc., Symposium Co-Chair
Joan Weinstein, Deputy Director, The Getty Foundation
L. Carole Wharton, President, L. CArole Wharton, LLC, SCUP Integrated Campus Heritage Planning Project Director

Campus Heritage in Higher Education: Value and Significance

Richard Ekman, President, Council of Independent Colleges

In the first half of the plenary, Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) president Richard Ekman will describe the genesis of the CIC Historic Campus Architecture Project (HCAP) and the creation of the first national architecture and landscape database of independent college and university campuses. CIC believed that highlighting the historic buildings and landscapes of independent colleges would help make the case for the entire sector of independent higher education and its value in society. CIC-HCAP documents historic campus buildings and provides a window into understanding the distinctive mission of the institution, the values of its founders, and the ways in which the physical campus supports the educational program.

Ekman will conclude with a perspective on what is known (much as a result of the Getty Foundation's grant series) about the value and significance of campus heritage preserved by institutions of higher education.

Richard Ekman has been president of the Council of Independent Colleges since 2000. He served as vice president for programs of Atlantic Philanthropies and, from 1991 to 1999, as secretary of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. From 1982 until 1991, he was with the National Endowment for the Humanities, first as director of the Division of Research Programs. He served as vice president and dean of Hiram College, where he was also a member of the history faculty, and as assistant to the provost at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. He currently serves as a board member of the National Advisory Committee of the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute and the Council of Harvard University’s Graduate School Alumni Association. He was awarded honorary degrees by Alvernia and Marywood Universities, and Alderson-Broaddus, Bethany, Georgetown, Hastings, Otterbein, and Ursinus Colleges. He is co-author, with Richard E. Quandt, of Technology and Scholarly Communication.

2:30 PM−2:45 PM

Break

2:45 PM−4:15 PM

Internal Process: Establishing Preservation as a Priority

David Neuman, Architect of the University of Virginia
Stan Horrell, Director of Campus Planning and Sustainability, Metropolitan Community College
Michael Rickenbacher, University Architect, Georgia College

This session will focus on internal processes by comparing and contrasting the preservation planning at three different institutions.

The effort at Metropolitan Community College illustrates the challenges of adaptive reuse of an historic fort to serve to serve the needs of higher education.

New Mexico State University solved the challenge of integrating historic structures, landscapes and agricultural lands into a cohesive Heritage Preservation Plan in a very public process.

At the University of Virginia, a rating system established by the Historic Preservation Framework Plan facilitated planning, the subsequent development of public awareness, and the resulting support for restoration and conservation efforts.

Stan Horrell shares a wealth of practical working experience in his role as primary planning director and construction manager for Metropolitan Community College (MCC). As prior owner of a local company specializing in building renovation, custom cabinet manufacturing, and architectural art glass for over two decades the skills utilized remain invariable: persistent attention to detail in the pursuit of client goals, rigorous awareness of budget and resources, and sensitive integration of project into site.
David Neuman guides sustainability and land use planning, program planning and design of capital projects for the Central Grounds, medical center, research parks, field stations, the College at Wise, the State Arboretum, and other university-owned lands and facilities, as well as stewardship and restoration of Thomas Jefferson’s Academical Village and other cultural resources. He currently has oversight of more than $2B in capital projects in various stages of planning and development. A Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and a LEED Accredited Professional, he previously served as University Architect and Associate Vice Provost for Planning at Stanford University, Campus Architect and Associate Vice Chancellor for Planning at the University of California, Irvine, and Consulting Campus Architect for the University of California, Santa Barbara and the University of Nebraska System.
Michael Rickenbaker is university architect at Georgia College. While university architect at New Mexico State University from 2004 to 2011 he oversaw the establishment of a heritage preservation plan for the institution. He is a National Council of Architectural Registration Boards certified architect with registrations in Georgia and North Carolina. He is a member of the Association of University Architects (AUA), currently chairing the AUA Preservation Committee, and the American Institute of Architects.

4:15 PM−4:30 PM

Break

4:30 PM−6:00 PM

Mid-Century Modern: Solving Technical Challenges While Respecting Philosophical Orientation

Richard Bumstead, University Planner, University of Chicago
Nick Adams, Professor of Art on the Mary Conover Mellon Chair, Vassar College
Frank Zwart, Associate Vice Chancellor, University of California Santa Cruz
David Fixler, Principal, EYP Architecture and Engineering, Boston

This plenary will address the unique characteristics, challenges, and opportunities inherent in mid-century modern campus buildings. Symbols of promise and possibilities, these buildings also utilized new (and sometimes untested) building systems and technologies. Three institutions will share the strategies they developed for these buildings that preserve their design integrity while enabling their structural evolution.

First, the University of Chicago will discuss how it created preservation guidelines during the renovation of 10 mid-century buildings. Then, Vassar College will present how it used the renovation of its John McAndrew's Art Library to generate campus appreciation for its mid-century modern tradition. Finally, Porter College will explain how it upgraded two residence halls to be more sustainable (LEED Silver) and increase housing revenue.

Nicholas Adams has been active in many aspects of architectural history. He is the author of books on Italian military architecture of the sixteenth century, the architectural drawings of Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, the architectural firm of Skidmore Owings & Merrill, and the Swedish architect Gunnar Asplund. Trained at Cornell University and New York University (Institute of Fine Arts), he has taught at Lehigh University (1978-1989) and Vassar College (1989-present). He has served as editor of the Journal of Society of Architectural Historians and currently serves on the board of Casabella (Milan), and Construction History (London).
Richard C. Bumstead has worked at the University of Chicago for 28 years, currently serving as the associate director for campus environment within facilities services. In this role, he has long advocated for the preservation of the rich architectural and landscape heritage of the campus while promoting contemporary design for newer projects. He has received two Getty Grants during his tenure: one for the comprehensive conservation plan for Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House (1994), and for Preservation Guidelines for Contemporary Architecture (2004). In 2002, he authored Preservation of an Ideal, outlining the university’s ongoing efforts to preserve and reuse the campus’ historic buildings. He has served as guest studio critic and lecturer at the University of Chicago, University of Illinois, and the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). Bumstead earned hs bachelors in city and regional planning for IIT and his masters in landscape architecture from the University of Illinois.
David Fixler is a principal at EYP specializing in the rehabilitation of institutional 20th-century buildings, including the renovation of Alvar Aalto’s Baker House at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A frequent teacher, writer, and lecturer on architectural history, preservation, and design, Fixler’s work is published internationally and he has organized numerous conferences on a wide-range of design and technical topics. Fixler is active in a variety of global professional organizations, including currently serving as co-chair of the Association for Preservation Technology’s Technical Committee on Modern Heritage, preservation officer of the Society of Architectural Historians, and president of DOCOMOMO/US - New England.
Frank Zwart has served as Campus Architect at the University of California, Santa Cruz, since August 1988. Prior to joining the University, Mr. Zwart worked in architectural firms in Carmel, Aptos, Santa Monica and Los Angeles, California, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and in Princeton, New Jersey. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1971, with honors in mathematics and college honors from Cowell College at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he was a Regents’ Scholar. His architectural training was at Princeton University, where he received a Master of Architecture degree in 1976. While at Princeton, he received the Butler Traveling Fellowship during the summer of 1975 and the Carrère Scholarship for 1974-75 from the American Institute of Architects. He has been a registered architect in California since 1980. Mr. Zwart is a member of the American Institute of Architects, the Society for College and University Planning, and the Association of University Architects (AUA). In June 2006 Frank received the Association of University Architects Distinguished Service Award given to individuals who have made a significant contribution in building and planning for higher education.

6:00 PM−8:00 PM

Campus Heritage Preservation Reception

Cash bar, hearty hors d'oeuvres

Friday, November 4

7:00 AM−8:00 AM

Continental Breakfast

8:00 AM−9:30 AM | There are two concurrent sessions at this time

The Plan Is Finished: What Next? Pathways to Finance!

John Cluver, Partner and Director of Historic Preservation at Voith &Mactavish Architects, Philadelphia
Maureen Burke, Founding Director of the Savannah College of Art and Design and of the Walter O. Evans Center for African American Studies
Brian Wishneff, President of Wishneff & Associates.

This plenary session will address some of the potential paths to financing available to colleges and universities. It will consider historic tax credits and other tax-advantaged financing at the local, state, and federal levels. The characteristics and traits of a historic building can be leveraged to raise funds for its preservation—how to do so will be shared.

This session will also present information about successful strategies for approaching foundations and other organizations that may be able to provide financial support in preservation planning, adaptive reuse, and new construction.

S. Maureen Burke served as the founding director of the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) Museum of Art and of the Walter O. Evans Center for African American Studies. She holds doctorate and masters degrees from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University (NYU), along with certificates in museum studies from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and NYU and in higher education administration from the Institutes of Higher Education at Harvard University, Bryn Mawr College, and the American Council of Education. A former Fulbright scholar to Italy, she teaches and is a visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley.
John H. Cluver is a partner and director of historic preservation at Voith & Mactavish Architects, LLP, a 25-person architecture firm located in Philadelphia. He received his professional degree in architecture from the University of Notre Dame and a certificate in historic preservation from the University of Pennsylvania. He has worked on a wide range of rehabilitation projects for a variety of educational, commercial, and civic institutions in the mid-Atlantic region, both as architect and preservation consultant. His preservation projects have included work at Yale University, Drexel University, Swarthmore College, Vassar College, and the Bryn Mawr Film Institute.
Brian Wishneff is president of Wishneff & Associates and has successfully completed historic tax credit projects for non-profits and governmental entities. He is a former Roanoke City Council member and former Roanoke City School Board member. Wishneff has presented on the topics of “Use of Historic Tax Credits and New Markets Tax Credits” Tax Credit Financing”, and “Historic, New Market & Renewable Energy Tax Credits.” He has degrees in Urban and Regional Planning and Political Science from Virginia Tech University. Wishneff is married and has three children.

8:00 AM−9:30 AM | There are two concurrent sessions at this time

The Plan Is Finished: What Next? Pathways to Implementation!

L. Carole Wharton, Campus Heritage Project Director, Society for Collegeand University Planning, Convener
E. Lander Medlin, Executive Vice President, APPA: Leadership in Educational Facilities, Moderator
Edward Galda, Campus Planner, University of Arizona
Michael Miller, Program Manager & USG Historic Preservation Officer, University System of Georgia
Park Rankin, University Architect, Senior Manager of Planning and Design, University of Pittsburgh

Our panelists will focus on the planning contexts on their respective campuses, lessons learned, advice to others, and how each of their campuses has implemented its Getty Foundation-funded preservation plans: maintenance plans for both building and landscape resources at the University of Arizona, development of a preservation planning template for use across the multi-campus University of Georgia System, and preservation and ongoing care of an iconic building at the geographic and historic center of the University of Pittsburgh. Their presentations will be followed by a question and answer discussion period with the audience.

Lander Medlin is the executive vice president of APPA: The Association of Higher Education Facilities Officers. Representing more than 1,600 institutions of higher learning internationally, APPA serves the needs of facilities professionals in management, planning, and development of campus facilities, and provides leadership on significant facilities issues. Prior to joining the APPA staff in 1994, Medlin was the assistant director for administrative and general services for the Department of Physical Plant at the University of Maryland, College Park. She also worked for the American Physical Society in Washington, D.C., for which she created an Office of Public Affairs. In addition, Medlin serves as the executive director for the Governor’s Science Advisory Council for the state of Maryland. Medlin earned a bachelors and a masters from the University of Maryland, College Park, and is currently working on her doctorate in higher education policy, planning, and administration.
Edward Galda is a campus planner with the University of Arizona’s (UA) Department of Planning, Design, & Construction and is a graduate of the UA College of Architecture. He is a member of the American Planning Association and American Institute of Certified Planners. Galda manages the campus long-range plans, conducts project-specific planning activities, and is currently charged with oversight of preservation matters on university properties as the UA’s interim historic preservation coordinator.
Michael Miller, is program manager and historic preservation officer with the Office of Real Estate & Facilities with the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia (USG). Miller also is a liaison program manager representing the USG Office of Facilities to numerous USG institutions. Before joining the staff of approximately 25 design/planning professionals at the Board of Regents, Miller was preservation architect with the Georgia State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) in Atlanta. Miller has over 20 years of experience in historic preservation, architecture, campus planning, and design. Miller has degrees in architecture and planning from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Mississippi State University.
Park L. Rankin practiced for 30 years before joining the University of Pittsburgh in 2000 to oversee planning, review, and design of all capital projects for five campuses. He has managed over $850 million in capital projects that include major research laboratories for health sciences, engineering, pharmacy, dental medicine, and chemistry and the expansion of residential living by 1,500 beds. Rankin completed the master plan of the athletics program which resulted in the construction of the $50 million Petersen Sports Complex which brought the baseball, softball, and soccer programs back to the Oakland campus. His duties as university architect included the completion and recent updating of the instructional master plan for the Oakland Campus. During his tenure as president of the Pittsburgh American Institute of Architects, he chaired the 1988 “Remaking Cities Conference” focusing on the recycling of our post-industrial cities and featuring international speakers including Prince Charles.
L. Carole Wharton, a former president of SCUP, is project manager for SCUP’s Getty Foundation-funded Campus Heritage Initiative. She is a former official responsible for planning at the Smithsonian Institution and Drexel University and for capital planning at the University of Maryland. She consults on strategic and financial planning and governance issues for colleges and universities, museums, and other nonprofit organizations.

9:30 AM−9:45 AM

Break

9:45 AM−11:15 AM

Cultural Landscapes

Robert Melnick, Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Oregon
Robert Sabbatini, Landscape Architect and Designer
Frank Edgerton Martin, Cultural Landscape Historian and Design Writer

Connections between buildings. Integration of buildings and landscapes. Place-driven campuses. Three experts will discuss these and other important ideas and issues that surround the valuation and preservation of the cultural landscape.

Frank Edgerton Martin is a landscape historian, campus preservation planner, and design journalist. He has worked at such historic campuses as Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana; Wells College in Aurora, New York; and, more recently, on the campus heritage plans for the University of Minnesota-Morris and the University of Kansas. A graduate of Vassar College with a bachelor’s in philosophy, he later attended the landscape architecture program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he earned an masters in cultural landscape history and landscape preservation. A long-time contributor to Landscape Architecture magazine, he is now collaborating with Jeffrey L. Bruce & Company on the integration of historic landscape preservation and sustainable, restorative design.
Robert Z. Melnick is professor of landscape architecture and former dean of the School of Architecture and Allied Arts, University of Oregon. From 1995 to 1997, he was a visiting senior program officer at the Getty Foundation, with responsibility for the Campus Heritage Initiative. Melnick, co-editor of Preserving Cultural Landscapes in America (2000), has published widely on theoretical and practical issues relating to cultural and historic landscapes. His written works and professional projects have received numerous national awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects, the Society of Architectural Historians, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Robert Sabbatini is a planner, landscape architect, and urban designer. He has provided notable design for over 30 institutions of higher education, including analysis and design leadership for Getty Grant projects for the University of California–Berkeley and for Mills College. His work has been recognized by awards from ASLA, SCUP, and APA.

11:15 AM–11:45 AM

Check Out

11:45 AM−1:15 PM

Perspectives on the External Process: Engaging the Community and Other Plans

Mark Burstein, Executive Vice President, Princeton University
Steve Canning Gordon, McGuffey Museum Director, Miami University
Glenn Smith, Director of Facilities Services, Bryn Mawr College

Future campus stewardship decisions will be driven by forces that minimize or even neglect the importance of campus heritage preservation. How planners integrate unique historic heritages into the very culture of their institutions? Miami University plans to ensure that campus heritage preservation is an integrated, living process that will endure as external forces and decision-makers change? The entire Bryn Mawr College community understands that its historic heritage defines the entire community. Leadership at Princeton University considers strategic investment in campus heritage preservation even more essential in difficult times, and has evidence to prove it.

Stephen Gordon holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in history from Miami University. Over the past thirty-five years Steve has worked for the Miami Purchase Association for Historic Preservation, the Kentucky Heritage Council, the State Historic Preservation Office at the Ohio Historical Society, where he oversaw the Ohio Historic Inventory and National Register of Historic Places programs, and the McGuffey Museum at Miami University. A native of Ohio, Steve’s research interests include local and regional architecture, cultural landscapes, craft and building technology, especially vernacular buildings and barns and the study of regional material culture. His publications include How to Complete the Ohio Historic Inventory (1992), as well as articles on the U.S. Grant Birthplace, 19th century prefabricated housing, women architects, Cincinnati’s meat packing industry, maple sugar production in southwest Ohio, and Spring Grove Cemetery. Steve has written or co-authored over 50 nominations to the National Register of Historic Places.
For the past fourteen years, Glenn Smith has served as the Director of Facilities Services at Bryn Mawr College, a distinguished liberal arts college for women located just outside of Philadelphia. Prior to arriving at Bryn Mawr, he spent 24 years as a Navy Civil Engineer Corps Officer—planning, constructing, and maintaining buildings and infrastructure at Naval and Marine Corps installations around the world. Smith has earned Bachelor of Science and Master of Engineering degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Master of Science degree in National Security Strategy from the National War College of the National Defense University. He is a licensed Civil Engineer in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Mark works with senior leadership to develop the University's mid- and long-term strategies. He leads efforts to modernize the University's operations and enhance campus infrastructure and has direct oversight of human resources, facilities, campus life, public safety, university services, and university audit and compliance efforts. Mark came to Princeton from Columbia University. Mark currently serves on the board of trustees of Vassar College and also served as the chair of the board of directors of the Victory Fund. He received his M.B.A. in Finance from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and his B.A. in History from Vassar College.

1:15 PM−2:15 PM

Change, Continuity and Civic Ambition: Campus Landscapes, Design & Historic Preservation

Charles Birnbaum, President, The Cultural Landscape Foundation

This lecture will reveal the expanding opportunities in the campus planning realm as we broaden our system of values to include cultural landscapes. Examples will be showcased that place equal value on preservation planning, design and stewardship while special attention emphasizes the segmented divide between the often competing camps of design vs. historic preservation and nature vs. culture. Within this context, the limitations of available research (physical and financial), how we assign significance, and the quest for placing a value on authenticity will also be explored.

Finally, larger philosophical challenges such as holistic stewardship; why we should designate campus landscapes (National Register and NHLs), and the recognition of a campus landscape's palimpsest (historic layers) will all be explored. Examples will be varied in scale, type and geography.

Prior to founding The Cultural Landscape Foundation, Charles A. Birnbaum served as coordinator of the National Park Service Historic Landscape Initiative (HLI) and practiced landscape architecture and urban design in New York. Recent web-based projects include What’s Out There? (a searchable database of the nation’s designed landscape heritage) and Cultural Landscapes as Classroom. He is the author of Shaping the American Landscape, Design with Culture: Claiming America’s Landscape Heritage, Preserving Modern Landscape Architecture, Making Post-War Landscapes Visible, Pioneers of American Landscape Design, and the National Park Service publication, The Guidelines for the Treatment of Cultural Landscapes. He is the recipient of the ASLA’s President’s Award of Excellence for the HLI, its Alfred B. Lagasse medal, and its President’s Medal. He served as Loeb Fellow at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and was awarded the Rome Prize in Historic Preservation and Conservation. He has served as visiting professor at Ohio State and Columbia Universities and blogs for The Huffington Post.

2:30 PM−

Optional informal walking museum visits or tours and dinner. Our local hosts are preparing options which will work like a dine-around.

Saturday, November 5

8:00 AM−5:00 PM

Optional Campus Tour of the University of Virginia - $150 (includes bus and meals)

This unique, all-day tour is choreographed by architect of the university David Neuman.

A full-day tour to the University of Virginia, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, will include an overview of the large-scale aspects of the University grounds via a brief bus tour. This will be followed by a walking tour of the historic Academical Village and the surrounding grounds, including a visit to the recently completed South Lawn project. A presentation will focus on the development and implementation of University’s 2007 Historic Preservation Framework Plan, created as one of the Getty Foundation-funded research projects.

Learn more about UVA's campus heritage grant and the work it accomplished.

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