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Contact: Carolyn Gonzales 277-5920
cgonzal@unm.edu

March 19, 2008

UNM Offers Southwest Summer Institute for Preservation and Regionalism
Cultural landscape documentation, law and adobe buildings focus of courses

This year, the UNM School of Architecture and Planning’s Southwest Summer Institute for Preservation and Regionalism features three courses that can be taken individually or as part of the UNM School of Architecture and Planning’s Graduate Certificate in Historic Preservation and Regionalism.

Miguel Gandert, “Las Trampas,” 2006, from Center Place, Plaza, Square: The Community Spaces of New Mexico, forthcoming from Trinity University Press, Fall 2009

The courses are:

Cultural Landscape Documentation and Planning: Learning from La Bajada

June 9 – 13

La Bajada cultural landscape, midway between Santa Fe and Albuquerque, includes portions of two roads mythic in American history--El Camino Real and U.S. Route 66. This course introduces methods for documenting and planning for the preservation of historic cultural landscapes through this case study, including guest lectures and fieldwork.

Instructor: Arnold Valdez, Harvard Loeb Fellow, planner, designer; assisted by Eric Delony, former chief, Historic American Engineering Record, and Christopher Marston, architect, Historic American Building Survey .

Preservation Law: A Practical Tool Kit

June 16-20

The course focuses on general principles and fundamentals of preservation law, focusing on Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act, as well as state, tribal, and local legislation. Class lectures and discussions will be supplemented with practical case studies.

Instructors: Jan Biella and Katherine Slick, NM Historic Preservation Division, tentatively with John Fowler, director, President’s Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, and guest speakers.

Assessment and Preservation Planning for Adobe Buildings: San Antonio Chapel June 23 – 27

The course in troduces the procedures for conditions assessment and preservation planning for historic adobe buildings. Field study will focus on the 18th-century chapel of San Antonio de Los Lentes, south of Albuquerque.

Instructor: Jean Fulton with Pat Taylor, adobe preservation experts, Cornerstones Community Partnerships, Santa Fe, and guest speakers

Students and professionals in preservation, design, planning, cultural resource management and related fields as well as interested members of the public are welcome to register.

For more information, please call 277-0071 or visit http://saap.unm.edu/ or email hprinst@unm.edu.

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