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  • 1.  National Trust Calls for Submissions

    Posted 12-02-2023 08:39 AM

    The National Trust for Historic Preservation is now accepting submissions for content programming for the 2024 PastForward preservation conference to be held in New Orleans on October 28-30, 2024. In addition, the NTHP is accepting submissions for the 2024 National Preservation Awards.

    Both Submissions are due January 12, 2024.

    PastForward 2024 Call for Ideas:  The National Trust for Historic Preservation is looking for your input for PastForward 2024 in New Orleans on October 28-30, 2024. Share your ideas on a range of topics such as climate resilience, ensuring representation in the field, and preservation-based community development.

    Ideas for content and speakers are due January 12, 2024. For additional information, please visit https://savingplaces.org/conference 

    National Preservation Award Nominations Open: Honor an incredible person, project, organization, or historic site open to the public that has transformed your community through historic preservation by nominating them for a National Preservation Award.

    Submissions are due January 12, 2024. For additional information, please visit https://savingplaces.org/awards

    For questions and clarification, please contact the National Trust directly.



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    Robert Burns, AIA
    Historic Resources Committee Advisory Group
    Richmond, VA
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  • 2.  RE: National Trust Calls for Submissions

    Posted 12-04-2023 09:21 PM
    I am particularly interested in the topic of historic preservation as a means toward community development. I have pursued that approach and been very successful with it. It became the basis for my 46 years of teaching and professional career at the Tulane School of Architecture. It was also the basis for the Master in Preservation Studies Program that I founded and directed for over twenty years at Tulane. The AIA published an illustrated article that I wrote for their book on practice published many years ago. The program which I founded and directed with Master Art Educator Lloyd L. Sensat, Jr produced incredible student work from primary through high school students and involved my Tulane students as educators with the younger students and the historic landmarks and communities with which we worked. The program continued for over 37 years and Mr. Sensat, Jr was recognized as one of the Disney Teachers of the Year. It also weighed very heavily in my James Marston Fitch Lifetime Achievement Award. The program is: Education Through Historic Preservation. It utilizes the process or creating and utilizing historic Preservation as the means for community renewal and conservation. In 2009 the neighborhood in which my academic and professional work began, Faubourg Marigny which is just downriver from the French Quarter or Vieux Carre, was chosen as one of the best neighborhoods in America by the American Planning Association. All of this is located in the incredible historic city of New Orleans, Louisiana. I retired from Tulane in 2015 but have remained active in my architectural career and community involvement. I was a student of MIT Professors Kevin Lynch and Georgy Kepes and of Bakema who directed my Stedebouwkunde Degree while I was a Fulbright Fellow at the Delft Institute of Holland. My Tulane Interdisciplinary PhD Dissertation was: Faubourg Marigny: A Proposal for Environmental Conservation. By the time I graduated in 1978, Faubourg Marigny changed from a neighborhood of beautiful and historic but derelict houses for which one could not obtain in 1970 a mortgage or house insurance policies to being on the National Register of Historic Places, a New Orleans’ Landmark/ Historic District and one of the most desirable places to live in the city. One could get a mortgage and insurance. It has been an amazing experience and one that my students and I have brought to many other places in the Americas.


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