| SES # | TOPICS |
|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction: What is historic preservation? |
| 2 | The roots of historic preservation in the United States |
| 3 | Preservation in the 20th century: History and policy |
| 4 | The politics of significance: The President's House on Independence Mall, Philadelphia |
| 5 | Preservation and interpretation: the Emily Dickinson museum |
| 6 | The politics of significance II: Poe, McKim and the NYU law school project Guest speaker: Susan Lowance, Kohn Pedersen Fox |
| 7 | If you can't see it, can you preserve it? The danger of "integrity" |
| 8 | Adaptive reuse: The Charles Street jail redevelopment Guest speakers: Pamela Hawkes and Wolfgang Rudorf, Anne Beha architects |
| 9 | Preserving contemporary life: The ugly and ordinary and the high-style Guest speaker: Helene Lipstadt, MIT |
| 10 | Preserving modern architecture: The case of Aalto in Cambridge Guest speaker: David Fixler, Einhorn Yaffee Prescott, architecture and engineering |
| 11 | Reflections on contemporary preservation debates: the World Trade Center and New Orleans after Katrina |
| 12 | Final presentations |