The Trustees of the Fitch Foundation are delighted to announce the recipients of the 2015 James Marston Fitch Mid-Career Fellowship and the Samuel L. Kress Mid-Career Fellowship. Join us for a reception to congratulate Angel Ayón and Tim Frank, and to learn more about their intriguing areas of study. All are welcome, though space is limited.
FITCH FELLOWS WELCOME RECEPTION
Wednesday, June 3rd, from 6PM to 8PM
at the offices of
Beyer Blinder Belle Architects
120 Broadway, 20th Floor
New York, NY 10271
Advance RSVP required; email [email protected].
ANGEL AYÓN
2015 James Marston Fitch Mid-Career Fellow
Re-Glazing Modernism: The American and European Experience To Date
Modern architecture has reached an age of maturity, and efforts to preserve it have come to inhabit a new branch of knowledge within the field of heritage conservation. The need to assess Modern buildings — and particularly the glazed assemblies that conform them — has become paramount. Mr. Ayón’s critical assessment aims to explore a range of approaches available to intervene on modern steel-frame glazed assemblies. More about Angel Ayón.
TIM FRANK
2015 Samuel H. Kress Mid-Career Fellow
Simulating our First-Principles Predecessors: Thermal Zoning in Domestic Structures from Antiquity to the 19th Century
Mr. Frank’s research merges historic preservation discovery and analysis with contemporary technologies, demonstrating the necessity for continued scholarly investigation of preservation themes derived from European precedents. Through investigation of vernacular American architecture, Mr. Frank will consider construction strategies as means by which humans have intensively shaped their living environments. More about Tim Frank.