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Teaching "Building Conservation and Renewal - Assessment Analysis Design" as a foundation class for working with existing buildings of all types for Harvard GSD architecture students, in conjunction with my ongoing consulting practice.

I have directed work on numerous rehabilitation, addition and adaptive re-use projects for historic properties including work for many of the top colleges and universities in America, the Federal Government and the United Nations. This includes a particular focus on buildings of the modern movement, including works by Alvar Aalto, Eero Saarinen, I. M. Pei, Paul Rudolph and Louis Kahn. This practice will concentrate - though by no means exclusively - on all aspects of working with historic structures and sites with a particular emphasis on conservation planning and adaptive use for 20th century modern properties, and the renewal of library and archival facilities. My present practice includes Conservation Management Planning, and consulting to architects, construction managers and institutional building owners as an expert in working with a wide variety of historic structures. I write and speak frequently on design and preservation topics - again with a particular focus on modern buildings and sites - and have delivered lectures throughout the US and in 12 countries on 4 continents. I am a co-founder and president of DOCOMOMO-US/New England, co-founder and past chair of the APT Technical Committee on Modern Heritage, and member and past chair of the Heritage Conservation Committee of the Society of Architectural Historians.

Lectures on working with 20th century buildings for courses and graduate seminars, as well as public lectures on same topic. Recent engagements include giving a keynote address for "The Concrete Surface" symposium on concrete use and conservation in February of 2018, and a three-day Master Class on "Modern Problems - Myths and Opportunities in the Conservation and Renewal of Modern Heritage" in April of 2018.

I spent 17 years at EYP directing high profile projects for public and private institutional and government clients. These projects featured heritage and conservation planning including a Master Plan for the Massachusetts State House, and a Getty sponsored Conservation Management Plan for Paul Rudolph's Jewett Arts Center at Wellesley College, and planning and execution of renovations to significant historic structures for institutions such as the United Nations, Harvard, MIT, Stanford, the University of Pennsylvania and the Universities of Iowa, New Hampshire and Virginia. A substantial number of these projects involved the renewal of library and archival facilities, including Harvard's Widener, Lamont and Hilles Libraries, the Massachusetts State Library, the Stanford Combined Sciences Library, the library of the Princeton Theological Seminary and John F. Kennedy Presidential Library.

Architect, worked on numerous college, university and public cultural resources, new construction and historic preservation, including renovation of Alvar Aalto's Baker House at MIT.