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09/28/05 “Designing the Future, Preserving the Past” lecture series features regional and international preservation projects By Paul A. Kovach, Vice President for College Communications Pittsburgh, PA - PITTSBURGH (September 28, 2005) … The role of historic preservation in 21st century urban design projects is the theme of Designing the Future, Preserving the Past, a new lecture series co-sponsored by Chatham College’s Interior Architecture and Landscape Architecture programs and the University of Pittsburgh’s Department of Art History and Architecture. The free lecture series, hosted this fall and spring at the campuses of Chatham and the University of Pittsburgh, will feature regional and national speakers who will address the growing relationship between historic preservation and today’s design trends in cities around the globe. The lecture series includes: "A Tale of Two Cities" Date: Tuesday October 4, 2005, 6:30 p.m. Location: Welker Room, Chatham College Speaker: Roy Eugene Graham, RA, FAIA, NCARB, Fellow of US-ICOMOS The 18th century fishing town of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia and the 15th century Venetian Republic town of Koper in Slovenia were recently designated for the World Heritage List. This has presented both communities with the challenge of protecting the character of their historic towns and ensuring that new development and increased tourism will not diminish their integrity. Graham discusses a conservation strategy for both cities that belongs to the community, having been developed jointly with professionals, students, governments and the communities. Roy Eugene Graham, FAIA, is the Beinecke-Reeves Distinguished Professor and Director of College Preservation Programs in the College of Design, Construction, and Planning at the University of Florida. He is the Chairman Emeritus of the Advisory Board for the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training of the National Park Service. "Interior Architecture for Historic Preservation and Adaptive Reuse" Date: Thursday, November 3, 2005, 6:30 p.m. Location: Welker Room, Chatham College Speakers: David Ross, AIA and Mary Rose Hopkins, ASID, NCIDQ Practicing interior architecture in historic buildings presents unique challenges to the designer. Using case studies, this lecture illustrates the variety of approaches the firm has used when working with historic projects. David Ross, AIA is a Principal and Shareholder of The Design Alliance in Pittsburgh, PA. Mary Rose Hopkins, ASID, NCIDQ is a project manager and project interior designer with The Design Alliance. "Designing for Democracy: A Third-Century National Mall" Date: Tuesday, January 24, 2006, 6:30 p.m. Location: 125 Frick Fine Arts Building, University of Pittsburgh Speaker: Judy Scott Feldman Throughout its two-hundred-year history, the National Mall in Washington, D.C. has expanded and evolved, and it can evolve again to meet the civic and cultural needs of our growing democracy. In this lecture Ms. Feldman discusses the Third-Century Mall, a concept recently championed by The Washington Post and others. Dr. Judy Scott Feldman is an art historian and chair of the non- profit National Coalition to Save Our Mall. "The Evolution of Schenley Plaza" Date: Tuesday, March 28, 2006, 6:30 p.m. Location: 125 Frick Fine Arts Building, University of Pittsburgh Panel discussion including landscape architects and Meg Cheever, President of Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy The entrance to Schenley Park from the University of Pittsburgh’s main campus has always been masked by the automobile. The vision of a true entry into Schenley Park, one of four great regional parks in the City of Pittsburgh, will be discussed by the panelists as they describe their roles in this great public park project, soon to be unveiled directly across the street from the Frick Fine Arts Building. As Pittsburgh Mayor Murphy stated at the groundbreaking for this project, “Now we are going back to 1912, really, in putting it back into what is should really be – a grand entrance to the park.” For the Chatham College lectures, campus parking is limited and carpooling is encouraged. Guests are requested to park in the College’s Library/Theatre Lot via Murray Hill Avenue. For directions visit www.chatham.edu/campusmap. For more information, contact John Marsden, Ph.D., director of Chatham’s Interior Architecture program and the Arts and Design division chair, at 412-365-2978 or jmarsden@chatham.edu. For the University of Pittsburgh lectures at the Frick Fine Arts Building, limited street parking is available outside the building on Schenley Drive, and parking is also available at the nearby Carnegie Museum of Art lot and at the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial garage three blocks away. Numerous bus lines serve the area from downtown and points east. For more information, contact Kirk Savage, Chair, History of Art and Architecture at 412-648-2405 or ksa@pitt.edu. Chatham College provides its more than 1,200 students – both undergraduate and graduate – with a solid education built upon strong academics, public leadership and global perception. Chatham’s graduate programs, continuing education and certification programs provide women and men with advanced education for professional careers. It is one of the nation’s oldest colleges still awarding undergraduate degrees solely to women, since its founding in 1869. The 32-acre arboretum campus is located on historic Woodland Road in the Shadyside section of Pittsburgh. For more information call 800-837-1290 or visit www.chatham.edu. The University of Pittsburgh is one of the nation’s leading public research universities. The Department of History of Art and Architecture offers undergraduate majors in art history and in architectural studies, as well as a PhD program in art history. For more information see www.pitt.edu/~arthome. # # #

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