NCPE Preservation Trades: New Life from Old Buildings (Field Session)

Description: Today, preservation trades instructors are training a new generation of craftspeople for rewarding careers in historic preservation that support local ecomomies. This session, featuring two recoginized experts in preservation trades, will demonstrate how ornamental plaster is restored at the historic Indianapolis City Hall while discussing careers in the preservation trades.

The Next Generation of Preservation Practitioners (Education Session)

Description: Future preservation practitioners, selected competitively from historic preservation progams across the country, will present their visions for rebooting preservation for new audiences. Students will assess the Conference’s themes: “Mapping a New Agenda, Paying for Preservation, and Rebooting for Preservation.” A panel of educators will debate ideas presented by the students.

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Preservation enables people to appreciate many places and objects. This enhances our quality of life based on everything from aesthetics to our identities.

Having a variety of sites and artifacts enriches our lives. Furthermore, since regions have unique histories & identities, studying preservation embraces diversity in such a globalized age.

Preservation is linked with heritage.  The places & things we select to preserve & retell shape our identities locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally.

By studying preservation one learns about the ramifications, responsibilities, and benefits of being a custodian of history.

The greenest building is the one that already exists.

By restoring a building, one avoids expending the energy it takes to bulldoze the site and ship the waste materials to a landfill, as well as all the energy required in manufacturing, transporting, and building a new structure.  Existing buildings can be restored and used for their original purpose, or for a new one.

2000 – Bernd Foerster
2001 – Kevin Jordan
2002 – Marshall McLennan
2003 – David Fogle
2004 – Chester Liebs
2005 – Don Peting
2006 – Lyle Rosenberger
2007 – Hugh Miller
2008 – Robert Melnick
2009 – Michael Tomlan
2010 – David Woodcock
2011 – Eugene Cizek