Closing Plenary - A Modernists’ Challenge to Preservation

Yale Art Gallery

1111 Chapel Street
New Haven, CT

Speakers

Sara Bronin

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Closing Plenary - A Modernists’ Challenge to Preservation

A Modernists' Challenge to Preservation

 

As we close this event, Sara Bronin, Chair Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, will send participants off with a conversation about “challenge" across two dimensions.

First, she will surface the unfortunate reality that, especially in complex urban environments, not every story ends well for modern architecture. Why? Bronin will discuss material, subjective and policy challenges to protecting the places Docomomo has prioritized. Then, she will challenge attendees to influence solutions, explaining why preservation and regulation go hand in hand. Bronin will offer entry points to engaging with federal, state, and local decision-makers, as well as legal frameworks, to improve better protection for modern sites. Among other things, she will incorporate her recent research on local preservation ordinances and highlight the intersection of climate and preservation, previewing next year’s Docomomo meeting in Miami.

Speaker:

Sara Bronin, Chair of the U.S. Advisory Council on Historic Preservation and a professor (on leave) from Cornell University.  

Location:

Yale Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT, 06511 

Keynote Speaker

Sara Bronin

Sara Bronin is a Mexican-American architect, attorney, and policymaker specializing in property, land use, historic preservation, and climate change.  She serves as the Senate-confirmed Chair of the U.S. Advisory Council on Historic Preservation and is a professor (on leave) from Cornell University. She founded the National Zoning Atlas and is writing the forthcoming book, Key to the City.  She was educated at Yale Law School (Truman Scholar), Oxford (Rhodes Scholar), and the University of Texas.  

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