KEYNOTE: WHERE NEW AND OLD MEET: A plea for sustainable modernity

Hubert-Jan Henket is an architect and the founder and Honorary President of Docomomo International. He graduated cum laude in 1969 under Aldo van Eyck at the Faculty of Architecture at the Delft University of Technology. Afterwards he studied urban design at Otaniemi University in Finland. He worked in Helsinki for Reima Pietilä. From 1971 to 1976 he worked in London for Castle Park Dean Hook architects. In 1976 he started his own architectural firm in the Netherlands, since 2010 known as BiermanHenket architects. He is professor emeritus of the Eindhoven University of Technology and the Delft University of Technology. He was knighted Ridder in de Orde van de Nederlandse Leeuw, he received the BNA Kubus and is Honorary Fellow of The Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland. In 2002 Hubert-Jan Henket and Hilde Heynen compiled the book Back from Utopia, the Challenge of the Modern Movement. In 2013 Hubert-Jan Henket published his book entitled Waar Nieuw en Oud Raken, een pleidooi voor houdbare moderniteit in architectuur.

SESSION 2: Midcentury Marvels: Commercial Architecture of Phoenix 1945-1975

Born and raised in mid-century Phoenix, and educated at Arizona State University (Architecture 1973), Don Ryden is a dedicated design professional who tirelessly integrates the practices of architecture, planning, and historic preservation.  Don Ryden has combined his life-long fascination for artistry in buildings, respect for heritage places, and sense of ecological responsibility through his specialization in heritage conservation.  In 1994, his achievements were recognized by the State of Arizona through the Governor’s Merit Award for Historic Preservation.  Under his leadership, Ryden Architects, Inc. was honored as AIA Arizona Firm of the Year 2008.  In 2012, his architect peers presented Don Ryden with the AIA Arizona Architects Medal for his contributions to the community and to the profession.  As a scholar, author, and illustrator, he has revealed Phoenix’s spirit of place through its world-class “architecture of optimism” in the groundbreaking book Midcentury Marvels: Commercial Architecture of Phoenix 1945-1975.

On Antillean Concerns: Passive Design for a Modernist Puerto Rico (1943-56)

Holds a Master’s Degree in Architecture from the University of Puerto Rico which awarded his thesis Remembrance of the Intangible: Interpretive Recovery of the Lost Walled City of San Juan with an honorary mention. For six consecutive years he was a research assistant at the university’s Architecture and Construction Archives and since 2001 has been the Senior Staff Architect at the Puerto Rico State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) guarantying local compliance with the federal laws and regulations in the identification, rehabilitation and management of cultural resources. He has also worked in coordination with government agencies and private organizations in promoting the preservation of the island’s architectural heritage on relevant projects related to properties of Puerto Rico’s architectural legacy, from the rehabilitation of the former Ballajá Infantry Barracks building of the Spanish colonial era (2009-11) to the restoration of Edward Larrabee Barnes’ El Monte Apartments (2011-7).

His written works on historic preservation have been published by numerous local and regional newspapers and magazines. In 1999 he was awarded with the Pedro de Castro Medal of Excellence for the research efforts that lead to the publication of Enrique Vivoni’s Architect of Dreams. He is currently the acting President of the Puerto Rico chapter of Docomomo and an adjunct professor at the Graduate Program in Architecture of the Universidad del Turabo in Gurabo.

Mid-Century Modernism and the Invention of Microclimate

Allan W. Shearer, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the Center for Sustainable Development and Fellow of the Potter Rose Professorship in Urban Planning at The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture. His research examines how individuals, communities, and societies create scenarios of the future and how these descriptions of possible tomorrows are used to inform present day decisions. With a focus on issues relating to the built environment, his work engages the expansion of the conceptual frameworks of scenario-based studies and also the methodology by which they are developed. He has been a visiting scholar at the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy at Salve Regina University and Fellow of the James Marston Fitch Foundation. At The University of Texas at Austin, he was a Donald D. Harrington Faculty Fellow and a Fellow of the Humanities Institute. His research and teaching have been recognized by the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture and the Design Futures Council.

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Wendell Burnette is a self-taught architect with an internationally recognized body of work. His architectural practice based in Phoenix is engaged in a wide range of private and public projects. Burnette’s work is concerned with space, light, context and community. He is a native of Nashville who discovered the southwest desert as an apprentice at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West. He is a Professor of Practice at Arizona State University and lectures widely in the United States and abroad. The work of Wendell Burnette has been published in more than 200 publications worldwide and has earned numerous distinctions for Design Excellence, including a 1990 Young Architects Award from PA magazine, a 1999 “Emerging Voices Award” from the Architectural League of New York, three “Record House” awards from Architectural Record magazine, over 10 AIA Arizona and AIA Western Mountain Region design awards, as well as one National AIA award and one National AIA / ALA Design Award for the Palo Verde Library / Maryvale Community Center. In 2009, Burnette received the Academy Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York City recognizing an American Architect whose work is characterized by a strong personal direction, which was accompanied by an exhibition at the Academy in the same year. Most recently, his first full-length monograph Dialogues in Space by Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers was released worldwide.

Gunny Harboe, FAIA, Fellow US/ICOMOS, is an internationally recognized architect dedicated to the conservation of the world’s cultural heritage. With over 30 years of experience, Gunny currently runs his own small architecture firm in Chicago, with a focus on historic preservation and sustainable design.  He has worked on many iconic modern masterpieces including numerous works by Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Sullivan. Gunny was a founding member and is a current board member of Docomomo US and a founding member and immediate past President of the ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on 20th Century Heritage (ISC20C).  He is also a past board member of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy, a General Services Administration (GSA) Peer Professional, and a Fellow of the AIA and US/ICOMOS. He also teaches at the Illinois Institute of Technology as an Adjunct Professor.  Gunny is NCARB certified and is licensed in six states and the District of Columbia. Gunny received his M.Arch from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (including study in Copenhagen, Denmark); a M.Sc. in Historic Preservation from Columbia University in New York; and a B.A in History from Brown University. He also completed the ICCROM Architectural Conservation Course in Rome, Italy.

Future of Arcosanti

Jeff Stein, co-president, a member of the executive committee, is an editor, writer and practicing architect. Formerly Dean of Boston Architectural College and Head of Architecture at Wentworth Institute in Boston. He taught in the Career Discovery Program at Harvard Graduate School of Design; Technicum Winterthur, Zurich; and at Ecole de Architecture Languedoc-Rousillon, in Montpellier, France. Mr. Stein was Commissioner of Education for the Boston Society of Architects, on the editorial board of Architecture Boston, and an award-winning architecture critic for the newspaper, Banker + Tradesman. On the Cosanti staff in the 1970's and 80's he worked on many projects. Stein lectures widely about Arcosanti, including at the 7th World EcoCities Congress, and the Tel Aviv-Yafo Centennial Conference on Urban Sustainability this past year. He recently completed an American edition of the Swiss text, The Ecological Aspects of Building, with his wife, art historian Emilie Altemose.

Leading the Case for Advocacy

Eugenia Woo is the Director of the Preservation Services at Historic Seattle. She develops and implements historic preservation policies and initiatives, provides technical assistance, engages in community outreach, and coordinates advocacy efforts. Her experience includes working as a preservation consultant at Artifacts Consulting in Tacoma and on the staff of the Historic Preservation Program in the City of Seattle Department of Neighborhoods. She is a co-founder and board member of Docomomo US/WEWA. Eugenia has a B.A. in Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley and a Master of Urban Planning and Preservation Planning certificate from the University of Washington.

Leading the Case for Advocacy

Tara Kelly is Vice President of Policy & Programs at the Municipal Art Society of New York, a preservation and planning advocacy organization founded in 1893. Previously, she was Executive Director of Friends of the Upper East Side. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Isles of Shoals Association, the Board of Advisors of the Historic Districts Council, as well as the Island Heritage & Artifacts and Property Standards Committees of the Star Island Corporation. She is treasurer and co-founder of the Pratt Historic Preservation Alumni. She holds an M.S. in Historic Preservation from Pratt Institute and a B.S. in Linguistics from Georgetown University.

Considering a Modern Resource Survey

Delaney Harris-Finch is an architecture, planning and preservation professional with experience in the private, public and non-profit sectors. Delaney is an associate at Stern and Bucek Architects, an award winning Houston design firm specializing in new construction, adaptive reuse, renovation, and historic preservation projects. She is a strong advocate for historic preservation and contextual architecture and serves on the Houston Mod Board of Directors; Preservation Houston’s Pier and Beam Steering Committee; and the AIA Houston Historic Resources Committee.

Considering a Modern Resource Survey

Anna Mod is an award winning Secretary of the Interior’s qualified historic preservation professional / architectural historian with twenty-three years of experience providing historic tax incentive applications, National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) nominations, archival research, historic resource surveys, and Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) compliance for private and public sector clients. Her projects have won awards from AIA-Houston, Preservation Houston, Docomomo US and from the National Trust for Historic Preservation. She is a respected preservation leader, lecturer, author, and spokesperson for historic tax incentives and mid-century modern architecture. Ms. Mod is one of the founders of Houston Mod, a member of the Houston Archeological and Historical Commission, and was named a National Trust for Historic Preservation advisor in 2016.

Considering a Modern Resource Survey

Christine Lazzaretto, is a Principal at Historic Resources Group, a historic preservation consulting firm based in Southern California. Christine has a Bachelor's Degree in Art History from the Pennsylvania State University and a Master's Degree in Heritage Conservation from the University of Southern California. She is the founding Vice-President of Docomomo/Southern California; she serves on the Board of Trustees of the California Preservation Foundation; and she is a lecturer in the University of Southern California Heritage Conservation Summer Program. Prior to joining HRG, Christine worked for Pasadena Heritage, a nonprofit historic preservation organization, where she served as Director of Education and the first Preservation Director. At HRG, Christine works on historic resources surveys, historic context statements, environmental review, policy development, and federal tax credit projects. She has worked on numerous large-scale historic resources surveys, including SurveyLA, the first citywide effort to identify historic resources in Los Angeles; Citywide survey updates in Beverly Hills, Paso Robles, Palm Springs, Santa Monica, and South Pasadena; and surveys for the cities of San Diego, Fresno, Glendale, and Riverside.