http://fitchfoundation.org Fitch Foundation Wed, 06 Jun 2012 07:21:52 +0000 http://fitchfoundation.org en http://fitchfoundation.org/2012-Thomas-Campanella-The-Public-Works-Legacy-of-Clarke-and-Rapuano http://fitchfoundation.org/following/fitchfoundation.org/2012-Thomas-Campanella-The-Public-Works-Legacy-of-Clarke-and-Rapuano Wed, 06 Jun 2012 07:21:52 +0000 Fitch Foundation 3539105 Thomas Campanella Designing the American Century: The Public Works Legacy of Clarke and Rapuano <img src="http://payload61.cargocollective.com/1/2/79650/3539105/Campanella_2012_600.jpg" width="600" height="450" width_o="1437" height_o="1079" src_o="http://payload61.cargocollective.com/1/2/79650/3539105/Campanella_2012_o.jpg" data-mid="18293460" border="0" align="left"/> Bird's eye view of Orchard Beach and Pelham Bay Park, c. 1936. Michael Rapuano, landscape architect; rendering by E. Marugg. Courtesy City of New York Parks and Recreation. In 2012, Thomas Campanella was awarded a Mid-Career Grant to support the writing and production of a book about the American landscape architects Gilmore D. Clarke and Michael Rapuano. The book—Designing the American Century—will be published by Yale University Press in 2014. It is intended to fill a major gap in the historiography of American landscape architecture, which has largely ignored the generation of public-works designers who bridged the well-documented "Country Place" and Modernist eras. It will augment our understanding of the Robert Moses era in New York by demonstrating that Moses, while a brilliant administrator, was enabled by a gifted cadre of designers like Clarke and Rapuano, from whom he often borrowed formative ideas about the design of cities. The book will also help put Clarke and Rapuano's many parks and public works—some of which have already been lost or comprised—on the radar screen of the preservation and conservation communities. Clarke and Rapuano were conservative designers, educated in the Beaux-Arts tradition and skeptical of modernism. But they practiced at the edge of modernity, bringing art to infrastructure and moving fluidly between the fields of planning, design and engineering. Their parkways in Westchester County, New York were the first modern highways in the world—green corridors used to tie together the vast Westchester County Park System, first regional landscape of the motor age. They were also responsible for scores of parks and playgrounds in New York City, including Orchard Beach, Randall's Island, Battery, Cadman Plaza, Astoria, Marine and Jacob Riis Parks, the Brooklyn War Memorial and the Central Park Zoo and Conservatory. Thomas Campanella Designing the American Century: The Public Works Legacy of Clarke and Rapuano Bird's eye view of Orchard Beach and Pelham Bay Park, c. 1936.... http://fitchfoundation.org/2012-Daniel-Serda-Historic-Preservation-America-s-Latino-Communities http://fitchfoundation.org/following/fitchfoundation.org/2012-Daniel-Serda-Historic-Preservation-America-s-Latino-Communities Wed, 06 Jun 2012 07:13:34 +0000 Fitch Foundation 3539075 Daniel Serda Nuestra Herencia Americana (Our American Heritage): Challenges and Opportunities for Historic Preservation in America’s Latino Communities <img src="http://payload61.cargocollective.com/1/2/79650/3539075/Melville_Mexican_Annex_600.jpg" width="600" height="475" width_o="720" height_o="570" src_o="http://payload61.cargocollective.com/1/2/79650/3539075/Melville_Mexican_Annex_o.jpg" data-mid="18293353" border="0" align="left"/> Mexican Schoolchildren outside Melville School (Major Hudson “Mexican” Annex), Kansas City, Kansas, c.1930. Photograph courtesy of the Wyandotte County Historical Museum. Daniel Serda was awarded a 2012 Mid-Career grant in support of his project Nuestra Herencia Americana (Our American Heritage): Challenges and Opportunities for Historic Preservation in America’s Latino Communities. The project proposes to develop an illustrated manuscript for publication documenting challenges to the preservation of Hispanic American Historic Places throughout the United States, along with the potential for historic preservation to be utilized as a development tool in vital immigrant communities. The publication, which will be directed to an audience including preservationists, public officials, public agencies, and Latino community leaders, will contain three sections: a review of challenges and accomplishments of Latino communities engaged in preservation, developed through a sequence of 3-5 case studies; an in-depth examination of the challenges of translating the oral history traditions of one community (Kansas City, Kansas) into a formal local preservation agenda; and a nuanced examination of a “successful” Latino neighborhood in which heritage has been used both to preserve and celebrate the past, as well as to define a public agenda for neighborhood revitalization (the Ybor City District in Tampa, Florida). Daniel Serda Nuestra Herencia Americana (Our American Heritage): Challenges and Opportunities for Historic Preservation in America’s Latino Communities Mexican... http://fitchfoundation.org/2012-James-O-DayContinuum-of-Classicism-Edward-Godfrey-Lawson http://fitchfoundation.org/following/fitchfoundation.org/2012-James-O-DayContinuum-of-Classicism-Edward-Godfrey-Lawson Wed, 06 Jun 2012 06:38:49 +0000 Fitch Foundation 1277894 James O'Day Continuum of Classicism
: Edward Godfrey Lawson’s Photographs and Drawings of Italian Renaissance Gardens and His Contribution to American Landscape Architecture, 1915-1918. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/79650/1277894/6204701559_4c7cd006a6_m.jpg" width="181" height="240" width_o="181" height_o="240" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/79650/1277894/6204701559_4c7cd006a6_m_o.jpg" data-mid="18292631" border="0" align="left"/> Illustration of Edward Lawson. Courtesy of the estate of Frank Perley Fairbanks. James O’Day is the recipient of the 2012 Kress Mid-Career Grant for his project Continuum of Classicism
Edward Godfrey Lawson’s Photographs and Studies of Italian Renaissance Gardens and His Enduring Legacy to American Landscape Architecture, 1915-1937. The project examines Lawson’s historic role in the promulgation of Italian Renaissance garden design in relation to broadening the canon of American landscape architecture during the first half of the 20th century. Research findings will be developed into a digitally published article and a supplemental digital compendium compiled from his historic photographs and artwork. Lawson was awarded the first-ever Prix de Rome in landscape architecture by the American Academy in Rome. During his fellowship from 1915 to 1918, he conducted a photographic survey documenting Italian Renaissance gardens of the 15th and 16th century. He canvassed the Italian compagna, recording seminal gardens from the cinquecento and seicento—an unprecedented event for a formally trained landscape architect. As a professor of landscape architecture at Cornell University (1922-1937), Lawson further promulgated landscape design principles of the Italian Renaissance. His research, and that of his peers, was influential in developing landscape curricula used by American universities for the next generation. Yet by the mid-1930s, new leadership and new approaches in landscape training—the advent of modernist principles—de-emphasized the influence of classicism and devalued the works of Lawson’s generation. This project will address Lawson’s historic legacy—his grafting the idioms of Italian Renaissance garden design into the American landscape tradition. James O'Day Continuum of Classicism
: Edward Godfrey Lawson’s Photographs and Drawings of Italian Renaissance Gardens and His Contribution to American Landscape... http://fitchfoundation.org/Richard-L-Blinder http://fitchfoundation.org/following/fitchfoundation.org/Richard-L-Blinder Thu, 12 Apr 2012 09:53:47 +0000 Fitch Foundation 1012242 Richard L. Blinder Richard L. Blinder, FAIA, a graduate of Harvard School of Architecture and the University of Cincinnati, was a founding partner of Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners and past Chair of the James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation. He died at the age of 71 on September 7, 2006 in China, where he was designing the Shanghai Cultural Plaza, including a new theater, restoration of existing buildings and a large urban park. His work as an architect involved the intersection of old and new—that is, preservation through restoration, combined with contemporary architecture, in order to adapt the old for ongoing use. Much of his career was devoted to the design of cultural facilities—theaters, museums, art centers, schools, and libraries. Among his notable projects along these lines were his addition to the Montclair Art Museum, the renovation and combining of three existing buildings to form the Center for Jewish History and the transformation of Barney’s department store into the Rubin Museum for Himalayan Art. At Beyer Blinder Belle his work was often done in collaboration with James Marston Fitch, who joined the firm in 1979 as a principal and Director of Historic Preservation. In 1989 Richard Blinder was instrumental in setting up the James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation and served as its president until 2001. It is in the spirit of Richard Blinder’s work and his collaboration with James Marston Fitch and in recognition of his extraordinary ability to integrate preservation and innovation in the creative process that the James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation has created the Richard L. Blinder Award for studies that explore the architecture of cultural buildings which integrate historic preservation and new construction—past, present and future. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/79650/1012242/Blinder.jpg" width="168" height="151" width_o="168" height_o="151" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/79650/1012242/Blinder_o.jpg" data-mid="4862988" border="0" align="left"/> Richard L. Blinder Richard L. Blinder, FAIA, a graduate of Harvard School of Architecture and the University of Cincinnati, was a founding partner of Beyer Blinder... http://fitchfoundation.org/James-Marston-Fitch http://fitchfoundation.org/following/fitchfoundation.org/James-Marston-Fitch Thu, 12 Apr 2012 09:53:46 +0000 Fitch Foundation 1012234 James Marston Fitch James Marston Fitch was born in Washington D.C. on May 10, 1909 and raised in Chattanooga, Tennessee. His father, James Fitch, was a quartermaster in the U.S. Navy and later held clerical positions. His mother, Ellen Payne Fitch, came from a New Orleans family that had suffered severe losses in the Civil War. She rehabilitated and sold houses to supplement the family income and built the log house that was the family home. At the age of fifteen Fitch graduated from high school and enrolled as an engineering student at the University of Alabama. After two years he left to work in an architect’s office and then moved to New Orleans to attend Tulane University’s School of Architecture. Financial circumstances forced him to leave without completing his degree; in 1997 he was invited to be the commencement speaker and Tulane awarded him an honorary doctorate. At the age of twenty Fitch was employed by the Herbert Rodgers interior design firm in Nashville as a designer of period style houses, one of which was a replica of Auburn, a famous Natchez plantation house. When the Depression brought such work to an end Fitch worked for the Tennessee Valley Authority under wilderness advocate Benton McKaye, director of recreational resources. Subsequently he was employed by the Tennessee State Planning Board where, as Director of Population Statistics, he produced detailed studies of the distribution of industry, highways, railroads, tenant farming and the general economic determinants of population distribution. During a summer of study with housing and planning expert Henry Wright Fitch had met Henry Klaber who became director of the newly founded Federal Housing Administration and invited Fitch to come to Washington where he worked on establishing minimum standards for federally subsidized housing. Fitch’s first published article, “The Houses We Live In” (Architecture, vol. 68, pp. 213-218, October, 1933) came to the attention of Henry Saylor, editor of Architectural Record, who offered Fitch the editorial position that brought him to New York at the end of 1936. There he commissioned ground-breaking articles on architecture and landscape design and wrote anonymously himself on architectural trends. Drafted into the army in 1942, he was assigned to meteorology which led him to begin to focus on the connections between climate and architecture and to consider ways that building could benefit from or modify the impact of climate. This formed the basis for half of his first book, American Building, the Forces that Shape It, 1948, the other half being a history of American architecture. As an editor at Architectural Forum (1947–49) he had an office next to Jane Jacobs who became a life-long friend, fellow activist, and influence on Fitch’s thinking about urban fabric. In 1949, Elizabeth Gordon, editor of House Beautiful, asked Fitch to become Architecture Editor with the specific assignment of directing a “Climate Control” project. From 1950 to 1953 each issue of House Beautiful offered plans for “climate-wise” houses in different areas of the United States designed in consultation with a panel of experts in climatology. In 1954 Fitch joined the faculty of the Columbia University School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. “Preservation” was added at Fitch’s instigation when, together with Charles Peterson, he began to offer courses in historic preservation and established the first graduate program in the United States offering training in the preservation of historic buildings. The start of this program coincided with a growing public awareness of the devastation caused by the sweeping urban renewal programs of the 1950s and 60s and graduates of the program became leaders in the nation’s growing preservation movement while Fitch became internationally renowned as an advocate, teacher, and writer on behalf of “the built environment.” When Fitch reached Columbia’s mandatory retirement age in 1979 he embarked on a series of new careers; he had already served as the first conservator of Central Park (1974–75); he set up a graduate program in preservation at the University of Pennsylvania; he produced the first comprehensive book on the subject, Historic Preservation: Curatorial Management of the Built World (1982); and he became a partner and director of historic preservation in the architectural firm Beyer Blinder Belle. Among the projects he worked on were the master plan for the restoration of Grand Central Terminal, the South Street Seaport Museum and Master Plan, the Ellis Island National Monument and the restoration of the Cathedral of the Madeleine in Salt Lake City. During the 1980s and into the 1990s Fitch continued to travel widely as a consultant and lecturer and to publish critical essays such as “Physical and Metaphysical in Architectural Criticism” and “Murder at the Modern,” in which he attacked Postmodern theory and what he regarded as a betrayal of the principles of modernism. He received honorary doctoral degrees from Columbia University, New Jersey Institute of Technology, the University of Kansas, Parsons School of Design, and Tulane University. Shortly before his death in 2000 he attended the first Fitch Colloquium, established in his honor at the Columbia University School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. In 2004 Andrew Dolkart was the first appointee to the Fitch Professorship in Historic Preservation at Columbia, made possible by the Fitch Foundation, the Fitch bequest, the Kress Foundation and private contributions. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/79650/1012234/Fitch.jpg" width="150" height="187" width_o="150" height_o="187" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/79650/1012234/Fitch_o.jpg" data-mid="4862962" border="0" align="left"/> James Marston Fitch James Marston Fitch was born in Washington D.C. on May 10, 1909 and raised in Chattanooga, Tennessee. His father, James Fitch, was a... http://fitchfoundation.org/About-the-Honorees http://fitchfoundation.org/following/fitchfoundation.org/About-the-Honorees Thu, 12 Apr 2012 09:53:45 +0000 Fitch Foundation 975392 .nav_container {display:block;width:200;height:400;} <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/79650/975392/fitch1.jpg" width="150" height="150" width_o="150" height_o="150" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/79650/975392/fitch1_o.jpg" data-mid="4872994" border="0" align="left"/> James Marston Fitch James Marston Fitch was born in Washington D.C. on May 10, 1909 and raised in Chattanooga, Tennessee. His father, James Fitch, was a quartermaster in the U.S. Navy and later held clerical positions. His mother, Ellen Payne Fitch, came from a New Orleans family that had suffered severe losses in the Civil War. She rehabilitated and sold houses to supplement the family income and built the log house that was the family home. At the age of fifteen Fitch graduated from high school and enrolled as an engineering student at the University of Alabama. After two years he left to work in an architect’s office and then moved to New Orleans to attend Tulane University’s School of Architecture. Financial circumstances forced him to leave without completing his degree; in 1997 he was invited to be the commencement speaker and Tulane awarded him an honorary doctorate. At the age of twenty Fitch was employed by the Herbert Rodgers interior design firm in Nashville as a designer of period style houses, one of which was a replica of Auburn, a famous Natchez plantation house. When the Depression brought such work to an end Fitch worked for the Tennessee Valley Authority under wilderness advocate Benton McKaye, director of recreational resources. Subsequently he was employed by the Tennessee State Planning Board where, as Director of Population Statistics, he produced detailed studies of the distribution of industry, highways, railroads, tenant farming and the general economic determinants of population distribution. During a summer of study with housing and planning expert Henry Wright Fitch had met Henry Klaber who became director of the newly founded Federal Housing Administration and invited Fitch to come to Washington where he worked on establishing minimum standards for federally subsidized housing. Fitch’s first published article, “The Houses We Live In” (Architecture, vol. 68, pp. 213-218, October, 1933) came to the attention of Henry Saylor, editor of Architectural Record, who offered Fitch the editorial position that brought him to New York at the end of 1936. There he commissioned ground-breaking articles on architecture and landscape design and wrote anonymously himself on architectural trends. Drafted into the army in 1942, he was assigned to meteorology which led him to begin to focus on the connections between climate and architecture and to consider ways that building could benefit from or modify the impact of climate. This formed the basis for half of his first book, American Building, the Forces that Shape It, 1948, the other half being a history of American architecture. As an editor at Architectural Forum (1947–49) he had an office next to Jane Jacobs who became a life-long friend, fellow activist, and influence on Fitch’s thinking about urban fabric. In 1949, Elizabeth Gordon, editor of House Beautiful, asked Fitch to become Architecture Editor with the specific assignment of directing a “Climate Control” project. From 1950 to 1953 each issue of House Beautiful offered plans for “climate-wise” houses in different areas of the United States designed in consultation with a panel of experts in climatology. In 1954 Fitch joined the faculty of the Columbia University School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. “Preservation” was added at Fitch’s instigation when, together with Charles Peterson, he began to offer courses in historic preservation and established the first graduate program in the United States offering training in the preservation of historic buildings. The start of this program coincided with a growing public awareness of the devastation caused by the sweeping urban renewal programs of the 1950s and 60s and graduates of the program became leaders in the nation’s growing preservation movement while Fitch became internationally renowned as an advocate, teacher, and writer on behalf of “the built environment.” When Fitch reached Columbia’s mandatory retirement age in 1979 he embarked on a series of new careers; he had already served as the first conservator of Central Park (1974–75); he set up a graduate program in preservation at the University of Pennsylvania; he produced the first comprehensive book on the subject, Historic Preservation: Curatorial Management of the Built World (1982); and he became a partner and director of historic preservation in the architectural firm Beyer Blinder Belle. Among the projects he worked on were the master plan for the restoration of Grand Central Terminal, the South Street Seaport Museum and Master Plan, the Ellis Island National Monument and the restoration of the Cathedral of the Madeleine in Salt Lake City. During the 1980s and into the 1990s Fitch continued to travel widely as a consultant and lecturer and to publish critical essays such as “Physical and Metaphysical in Architectural Criticism” and “Murder at the Modern,” in which he attacked Postmodern theory and what he regarded as a betrayal of the principles of modernism. He received honorary doctoral degrees from Columbia University, New Jersey Institute of Technology, the University of Kansas, Parsons School of Design, and Tulane University. Shortly before his death in 2000 he attended the first Fitch Colloquium, established in his honor at the Columbia University School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. In 2004 Andrew Dolkart was the first appointee to the Fitch Professorship in Historic Preservation at Columbia, made possible by the Fitch Foundation, the Fitch bequest, the Kress Foundation and private contributions. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/79650/975392/binder1.jpg" width="150" height="150" width_o="150" height_o="150" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/79650/975392/binder1_o.jpg" data-mid="4872995" border="0" align="left"/> Richard L. Blinder Richard L. Blinder, FAIA, a graduate of Harvard School of Architecture and the University of Cincinnati, was a founding partner of Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners and past Chair of the James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation. He died at the age of 71 on September 7, 2006 in China, where he was designing the Shanghai Cultural Plaza, including a new theater, restoration of existing buildings and a large urban park. His work as an architect involved the intersection of old and new—that is, preservation through restoration, combined with contemporary architecture, in order to adapt the old for ongoing use. Much of his career was devoted to the design of cultural facilities—theaters, museums, art centers, schools, and libraries. Among his notable projects along these lines were his addition to the Montclair Art Museum, the renovation and combining of three existing buildings to form the Center for Jewish History and the transformation of Barney’s department store into the Rubin Museum for Himalayan Art. At Beyer Blinder Belle his work was often done in collaboration with James Marston Fitch, who joined the firm in 1979 as a principal and Director of Historic Preservation. In 1989 Richard Blinder was instrumental in setting up the James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation and served as its president until 2001. It is in the spirit of Richard Blinder’s work and his collaboration with James Marston Fitch and in recognition of his extraordinary ability to integrate preservation and innovation in the creative process that the James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation has created the Richard L. Blinder Award for studies that explore the architecture of cultural buildings which integrate historic preservation and new construction—past, present and future. James Marston Fitch James Marston Fitch was born in Washington D.C. on May 10, 1909 and raised in Chattanooga, Tennessee. His father, James... http://fitchfoundation.org/Trustees-Staff http://fitchfoundation.org/following/fitchfoundation.org/Trustees-Staff Thu, 12 Apr 2012 09:53:44 +0000 Fitch Foundation 975384 .nav_container {display:block;width:200;height:400;} Trustees Frederick Bland, Chairman Frederick Bland has provided design leadership over the past 35 years for educational, residential and cultural facilities in both the U.S. and in China. He has directed downtown redevelopment plans nationally, working with clients that require options for long-term growth. Mr. Bland began his career at Beyer Blinder Belle in 1972, became the first non-founding partner in 1978, and Managing Partner in 2004. An Adjunct Professor in the Fine Arts Department of New York University since 1990, he has also lectured on design at Yale University, Columbia University, Pratt and City College. He is a member of the Vestry of Trinity Church, Wall Street; Chairman of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden; and serves on numerous other civic boards in New York City including the Evergreens Cemetery and the Mark Morris Dance Group. Mr. Bland received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Yale University. William J. Higgins, Vice-Chairman William Higgins has over twenty years of historic preservation experience encompassing nearly all aspects of the profession including documentation, historic construction analysis and conservation; regulatory and design review at state, federal and local levels; museum restoration; historic rehabilitation; real estate development; and writing and lecturing. Previous to the past fifteen years as principal of his historic preservation consulting firm, Mr. Higgins was the statewide director of restoration for New York State-owned historic sites, and project development manager for a real estate firm specializing in rehabilitation and historic preservation. He has extensive experience in applying and interpreting the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation, both as government reviewer for the New York State Historic Preservation Office and as a private consultant to a range of private, public, corporate and institutional clients including the American Museum of Natural History and the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Mr. Higgins holds a BA from Boston College and an MS in Historic Preservation from Columbia University. Felicia Mayro, Secretary Felicia Mayro is the Director of the St. Mark’s Historic Landmark Fund and it’s Neighborhood Preservation Center project. The Landmark Fund is committed to the preservation of the landmark St. Mark’s Church In-the-Bowery campus. The Center is dedicated to facilitating and encouraging citizen participation in the improvement and protection of the New York City’s diverse neighborhoods and its cultural heritage. Prior to her work with the Landmark Fund, Ms. Mayro worked at the World Monuments Fund, an international preservation organization; and has a Master's Degree in Historic Preservation from Columbia University. Robert Silman, Treasurer Robert Silman is president of his structural engineering firm Robert Silman Associates. The firm divides its time evenly between projects of new construction, alteration, renovation and preservation with Mr. Silman contributing his knowledge in all structural materials. He has particular expertise in historic preservation, as evidenced by his work on Carnegie Hall, Fallingwater and The Museum of Immigration at Ellis Island. The Secretary of the Interior appointed Mr. Silman to the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training Board representing the fields of engineering and preservation education. He is a recipient of the New York Historic Districts Council’s Landmarks Lion Award, the AIA New York Chapter Award, and the New York Landmarks Conservancy Preservation Leadership Award. Mr. Silman is founder and Past Chairman of the Working Commission 7 on Sustainable Design for the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineers (IABSE). In recognition of his dedication to excellence in structural engineering and his role as a mentor for young engineers IABSE awarded Mr. Silman the prestigious Anton Tedesco Medal in 2005. He was co-leader with the National Trust for Historic Preservation running forums on sustainability and historic preservation at Pocantico, NY in 2008, and Nashville, TN in 2009. Mary Dierickx Mary Dierickx is Principal at Mary B Dierickx Historic Preservation Consulting, an award-winning preservation consulting firm established in New York City in 1977. Prior to establishing her firm, Ms. Dierickx was a member of the architectural survey department of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. She holds an MS from Columbia University's Graduate Program in Historic Preservation and was the United States representative at the Unesco-sponsored ICCROM (International Centre for the Conservation of Cultural Property) Course on Wood Conservation Technology in Norway. She is the author of the monographs The Architecture of Literacy: The Carnegie Libraries of New York City and The Architecture of Public Justice: Historic Courthouses of the City of New York. She has served as Chair of the James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation, President of the Fine Arts Federation of New York City, Secretary of the New York Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians, and Chair of the Preservation Committees of the Metropolitan Historic Structures Association and the New York Chapter of the Victorian Society. She served as Treasurer of the United States Committee of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (US/ICOMOS) and is a member of its Scientific Committee on Historic Towns. Amy Freitag Amy Freitag is the Executive Director of the New York Restoration Project. Prior to joining NYRP, Ms. Freitag served as U.S. Program Director for the World Monuments Fund, where she developed a demonstration conservation project for Taos Pueblo, a World Heritage Site; site protection and digital laser documentation of Tutuveni, a Hopi petroglyph site on Navajo Land near Tuba City, AZ; preservation and strategic planning for Shaker Villages in New York and Massachusetts; and program support for preservation education in high schools in Brooklyn and Newburgh, NY. Her professional background also includes serving as Deputy Commissioner for Capital Projects in the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation and Fairmont Park in Philadelphia. Ms. Freitag serves on the board of the New York Preservation Archive Project. She lectures nationally on the history of women in conservation and is researching a book on the founding of the Garden Club of America. She holds an A.B. from Smith College and master’s degrees in Landscape Architecture and Historic Preservation from the University of Pennsylvania. Pamela W. Hawkes FAIA Pamela Hawkes has a particular interest in new interpretations of historic sites and contemporary lives for landmark buildings. As a Principal with Ann Beha Architects in Boston for 25 years, she has completed award-winning preservation and design projects including restoration of the McLellan House and Sweat Galleries at the Portland Museum of Art in Maine; expansion of the Currier Art Museum in Manchester, NH; conversion of the Charles Street Jail to the Liberty Hotel in Boston; and ongoing restoration of Boston’s Symphony Hall. Ms. Hawkes is a graduate of Williams College with a Master’s Degree in Historic Preservation from Columbia University and a Master of Architecture Degree from the University of California at Berkeley. She was a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and has taught professional development courses on Preservation and Adaptive Re-Use there, as well as leading a Distinguished Firm in Residence design studio at Roger Williams University. Her public service includes fourteen years on the Boston Landmarks Commission and terms on the Massachusetts Historical Commission, the U.S. International Council on Monuments and Sites and the U.S. General Services Administration’s National Register of Peer Professionals. John J. Kerr, Esq. Edward Mohylowski Edward T. Mohylowski, Director of Corporations and Foundations at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, holds a Bachelor’s Degree from Alliance College, where as a Junior, he spent a year abroad studying at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. Subsequently, as a Fulbright scholar based at the Warsaw Polytechnic University, Mr. Mohylowski conducted research in Poland on the reconstruction of Warsaw’s Old Town. After earning an M.S. in Historic Preservation from Columbia University, he worked as a professional preservationist for more than a decade at both the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission and the New York Landmarks Conservancy, where he directed the Sacred Sites Program. He has since been a fundraiser specializing primarily in institutional giving at The New York Botanical Garden, Environmental Defense Fund, World Monuments Fund and John Jay College. In addition to serving as a trustee of the James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation, he is Treasurer of the Metropolitan Chapter of the Victorian Society in America. He is a former trustee of the Fairfield (CT) Historical Society, the Historic Districts Council and the Kosciuszko Foundation, as well as a former commissioner of the Fairfield (CT) Historic District Commission. Theodore H.M. Prudon Theodore Prudon, PhD, FAIA, a leading expert on the preservation of modern architecture, was educated at the University of Delft, Netherlands, and Columbia University where he received his doctorate. He is a partner of Prudon & Partners, based in New York City, and teaches preservation at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Prudon is the President of DOCOMOMO US and a board member of DOCOMOMO International. DOCOMOMO is dedicated to the study of significant works of Modern Movement architecture, landscape design, and urban planning around the world. Martica Sawin Art historian Martica Sawin is the former chair of the Department of History and Criticism of Art and Design, Parsons School of Design. She is now an independent scholar, curator, and critic. Ms. Sawin is the author of ten books on art and artists, including Surrealism in Exile and the Begining of the New York School, and of numerous essays in museum catalogues and art journals; literary executor for James Marston Fitch and editor of James Marston Fitch: Selected Writings on Architecture, Preservation, and the Built Environment (W.W. Norton 2006). John H. Stubbs John Stubbs is Vice President for Field Projects for the World Monuments Fund in New York and plays a key role in planning and coordinating several of the organization's key architectural conservation projects and related activities. Prior to joining WMF in 1990, Mr. Stubbs served for ten years as Assistant Director of Historic Preservation Projects at Beyer Blinder Belle, Architects & Planners. In 1978-79 he worked as a Historical Architect for the Technical Preservation Services Division of the U.S. Department of the Interior in Washington, D.C. helping to administer federal tax incentives for rehabilitating historic buildings. He is a graduate of Columbia University's Graduate Program in Historic Preservation and attended the International Centre for the Conservation of Cultural Property in Rome (ICCROM) as a UNESCO Fellow. He served as an Adjunct Associate Professor of Historic Preservation in Columbia University's Graduate Program in Historic Preservation from 1989 through 2009, and served for six years as Trustee of the Archaeological Institute of America. Mr. Stubbs has been an active board member of the James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation since its founding in 1988. In January 2009 he published Time Honored; A Global View of Architectural Conservation and in April 2011 he published the sequel (co-authored by Emily G. Makas) entitled Architectural Conservation in Europe and the Americas, National Experiences and Practice. Anne Van Ingen Anne Van Ingen is a historic preservationist. Until recently she was the Director of the Architecture, Planning & Design Program and Capital Projects at the New York State Council on the Arts where she served since 1983. Prior to that she ran a historic preservation consulting business and worked for several nonprofits and public agencies in New York and Massachusetts. Ms. Van Ingen is the President of the St. Regis Foundation, a land trust in the Adirondacks. She is also on the boards of The Preservation League of New York State and the Adirondack Museum. She served as an Advisor to the National Trust for Historic Preservation from 1999 to 2008. In the private sector, she is a founding partner of 5516 Dauphine LLC, an affordable housing company working in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, LA., and a Director of Charles Pratt and Co., LLC, a financial services company in New York City. Ms. Van Ingen holds a BA from Middlebury College and an MS in Historic Preservation from Columbia University. She is an Honorary Member of the New York State Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Ms. Van Ingen has recently been awarded a President’s Medal from the National Trust for Historic Preservation, a 2010 New York State Historic Preservation Award for Individual Achievement and a 2011 Lucy G. Moses Preservation Award for Public Leadership from the New York Landmarks Conservancy. President, Preservation Alumni, ex officio Cristiana Pena Cristiana is the Director of Programs at the Woodlawn Conservancy, a non-profit organization dedicated to sharing the artistic, historical, cultural, and natural resources of The Woodlawn Cemetery, a National Historic Landmark located in the Bronx. Prior to joining the Conservancy, Cristiana focused on community-based preservation advocacy on Manhattan's Upper West Side, working for five years as, first, the Director of Community Outreach and, later, as the Director of Preservation and Interim Executive Director for LANDMARK WEST!. Cristiana recently joined the faculty of Drew University, in New Jersey, as adjunct professor in the course "Preservation + Technology," through which she'll share her experience leveraging new media platforms for the benefit of preservation efforts. Prior to Columbia, Cristiana received her BA in Art History, with a minor in Architectural History, from The Pennsylvania State University. She is originally from western South Dakota. Honorary Trustees Adele Chatfield-Taylor Blaine Cliver Page Ayres Cowley Dr. Abbott Cummings Joan K. Davidson Dr. David G. DeLong Eric DeLony Dr. Henry Glassie William Barnabas McHenry Rev. James Parks Morton Elizabeth Barlow Rogers Mildred Schmertz Michael Tomlan Richard Blinder (1935-2006) James Marston Fitch (1909-2000) Cleo Rickman Fitch (1910-1995) Sir Bernard Feilden, OBE (1919-2008) Bruce Kelly (1948-1993) Dorothy Miner (1936-2008) Staff Seri Worden, Executive Director Trustees Frederick Bland, Chairman Frederick Bland has provided design leadership over the past 35 years for educational, residential and cultural facilities... http://fitchfoundation.org/History http://fitchfoundation.org/following/fitchfoundation.org/History Thu, 12 Apr 2012 09:53:41 +0000 Fitch Foundation 975026 .nav_container {display:block;width:200;height:400;} Twenty-five years after James Marston Fitch started the first graduate program in architectural preservation at Columbia University in 1964, he established a foundation to further his commitment to training professionals to protect and curate our built environment. Professor Fitch recognized that to strengthen the field of historic preservation it was critical to provide support structures such as professional organizations and grant giving institutions. The Fitch Foundation has indeed strengthened the field of historic preservation and has raised awareness about America’s rich architectural heritage. Year after year the Foundation has provided grants that enable mid-career professionals to conduct research that is of significant value to the academic community and professionals in practice around the world. A board of dedicated preservationists reviews applications and, to date, more than 30 grants have been awarded in support of projects that explore preservation issues in the United States. Past grantees have worked on topics ranging from scenic roadways to landscapes to regulatory methods to engineering systems to house museums and more, with projects focusing on vastly different geographic regions. The grants are not envisioned as prizes for past accomplishment, but are intended to support original research and creative thinking related to architectural heritage protection. The research and scholarship produced with the support of the Foundation is disseminated through publications, films and various other media and is readily available as a resource for students and practitioners. In 2006 the Foundation established the Richard Blinder Award in honor of the former Fitch chair, architect, and founding partner of Beyer Blinder Belle. The Award is presented biennially to an architect in support of a proposal that explores the preservation of an existing structure, complex of buildings or genre of building type through addition, renovation or other means. Twenty-five years after James Marston Fitch started the first graduate program in architectural preservation at Columbia University in 1964, he established... http://fitchfoundation.org/Mission http://fitchfoundation.org/following/fitchfoundation.org/Mission Thu, 12 Apr 2012 09:53:40 +0000 Fitch Foundation 975023 .nav_container.horizontal {display:block;width:700;height:100;} Since 1989 the James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation has been in the vanguard of historic preservation practice and theory. Our mission is to support professionals in the field of historic preservation, and to achieve this we provide mid-career grants to those working in preservation, landscape architecture, urban design, environmental planning, decorative arts, architectural design and architectural history. Since 1989 the James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation has been in the vanguard of historic preservation practice and theory. Our mission is to support... http://fitchfoundation.org/ApplicationRichard-L-Blinder-Award http://fitchfoundation.org/following/fitchfoundation.org/ApplicationRichard-L-Blinder-Award Thu, 12 Apr 2012 09:53:39 +0000 Fitch Foundation 975464 Grant Description DEADLINE: September 15, 2013 The Richard L. Blinder Award will be presented biennially to an architect holding a professional degree or a valid license to practice architecture for a proposal exploring the preservation of an existing structure, complex of buildings, or genre of building type through addition, renovation, or other means. The proposal may focus on a real project, or it may be a polemical exercise; in either case, originality is highly valued. The proposal must advance architectural preservation in the United States. The Award is for a sum not to exceed $15,000. Criteria for Evaluation Applications are reviewed by the Fitch Trustees. Projects will be evaluated on the following criteria and conditions of eligibility: • A demonstrated need for the proposed study and evidence of its value to advance the practice of historic preservation in the United States. • The applicant has a realistic plan for the dissemination of research and/or the final work product within twenty-four (24) months of receipt of the Award. Modes of dissemination include papers; lectures; conferences; presentations; or exhibitions. • The project has a clear and realistic goals, timeframe, work plan, and budget • The project demonstrates innovative thinking, original research and creative problem solving and/or design Eligibility Below are the terms of eligibility for the Richard L. Blinder Award: • Grants are awarded only to individuals, not organizations or university-sponsored research projects. Grants are not awarded for professional fees. • The applicant must be an architect holding a professional degree or a valid license to practice architecture with at least 10 years experience in architecture, historic preservation or related fields, including landscape architecture, architectural conservation, urban design, environmental planning, archaeology, architectural history and the decorative arts. • Applicants must be legal residents or citizens of the United States. Please email us with any questions concerning criteria for evaluation or project eligibility. How to Apply Applications must be submitted in PDF format to info@fitchfoundation.org by September 15, 2013. Applicants are required to submit the following materials: 6. Cover page, including Project Title; Name of Applicant(s), including primary contact person; Applicant Address; Phone; Email. Also, please specify whether you are applying for the Fitch Mid-Career Grant or the Richard L. Blinder Award; and specify the amount of grant money requested. 7. Brief description of project, including how the final work product will be disseminated. Applicants are encouraged to be succinct and the description is not to exceed three (3) pages. 8. Detailed work schedule and project budget, showing the grant amount requested from the Fitch Foundation and how this money will be spent. 9. Curriculum Vita, including professional and academic background, and past and present grants received. 10. Two (2) letters of support for the project to be included with the application. Selection Process & Completion of Grant Grants are awarded at the discretion of the Foundation. Recipients will be notified by mail in the Spring of 2014. Projects must be completed within twenty-four (24) months of the grant award, except when the Trustees approve an extension. All grantees will be assigned a Trustee advisor who will provide feedback and guidance throughout the project. Typically, grant awards are divided into equal payments, the first being presented upon the award of the grant. Substantial written progress reports are required for all subsequent payments. The final payment is awarded only upon completion of the project. The Foundation shall be acknowledged in all publications. The Trustees reserve the right to publish the results if the recipient does not. The grant recipient must sign a release to the Foundation permitting such publication. Proper credit will be given to the grant recipient. Grant Description DEADLINE: September 15, 2013 The Richard L. Blinder Award will be presented biennially to an architect holding a professional degree or a valid...