Preserving New York Symposium
The all–day event featured panel presentations and discussions that focused on key issues of concern to New York City’s preservation movement, past and present.
The program opened with a keynote address, “The past is never dead. It is not even past, ” by Anthony C. Wood, author of the recently released book Preserving New York: Winning the Right to Protect a City’s Landmarks (Routledge, 2007). Highlights included “Preservation and Progress,” a discussion between the architect Robert A.M. Stern, Dean of the Yale School of Architecture, and Kenneth T. Jackson, Jacques Barzun Professor of History and the Social Sciences at Columbia University, about preservation’s role in the evolution of New York. Panel topics included: * “Where Did the ‘History’ Go in Historic Preservation?” * “The Media and Preservation: New Media, Old Roles?” * “Changing Preservation Advocacy Over the Decades” * “The Preservation Civic Sector in Times of Change” The day closed with concluding remarks by author, scholar, and rapporteur Tony Hiss.
The event included lunch, an authors’ signing, and a cocktail reception.
Support for Preserving New York – Then and Now was provided by the Norman and Rosita Winston Foundation, Murphy Burnham & Buttrick Architects, Platt Byard Dovell White Architects, A. Ottavino Corporation, Ehrenkrantz Eckstut & Kuhn Architects, Polshek Partnership Architects, Robert A.M. Stern Architects, LLP, and Walter B. Melvin Architects, LLC. The symposium was co-sponsored by Beaux Arts Alliance; Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation; Graduate Program in Historic Preservation Planning, Cornell University; Friends of Terra Cotta; The Gotham Center for NYC History/CUNY; Historic Districts Council; Historic House Trust of New York City; Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America; James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation; National Trust for Historic Preservation; New York Landmarks Conservancy; New York University Archives/Public History Program; NYU Urban Design and Architecture Studies; Pratt Institute; Preservation League of New York State; Rutgers University; St. Mark’s Historic Landmark Fund/Neighborhood Preservation Center; Society of Architectural Historians, New York Chapter; Graduate Program in Historic Preservation, University of Pennsylvania.