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Preserving New York: Then and Now Symposium

Saturday, February 23, 2008
8:00 am – 6:00 pm

At the Museum of the City of New York

1220 Fifth Avenue (at 104th Street)

New York, NY 10029

The all–day event features panel presentations and discussions that focus on key issues of concern to New York City’s preservation movement, past and present. The program opens 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 include “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 include:

  • “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 closes with concluding remarks by author, scholar, and rapporteur Tony Hiss.
The event includes lunch, an authors’ signing, and a cocktail reception. Seating is limited. 

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RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED:
$25 Museum member and member of co-sponsoring organization; $30 Non-member;

A limited number of student tickets are available at the member’s rate.


To register, visit www.mcny.org, or call 212.534.1672, ext. 3395.

Support for Preserving New York – Then and Now is 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 is 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.

 

For more information about the symposium please contact Liz McEnaney at lmcenaney@nypap.org.