Annual Historic Preservation Symposium
Since 2000, the CHC has sponsored an annual symposium on historic preservation that attracts faculty, students, and historic preservation professionals from around Texas and beyond.
24th Annual Historic Preservation Symposium
CHC Symposium History
2000 Careers in Presentation: The Present and the Future
Nancy McCoy, Jack Pyburn, Bill Barlow
2001 Presentation and Conservation in Practice
Bruce Judd, FAIA Architectural Resources Group, San Francisco, Preservation and Planning
Michael Dixon, FAIA, The Durrant group, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Karl Stumpf, AIA, RTKL Washington, DC Green Preservation
Arthur Jones, AIA Bower Lewis Thrower Architects, Philadelphia, Present the Recent Past
Dinner at Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historical Park with Ray Bailey, FAIA as Speaker
2002 Recording Cultural Heritage: 25 Years of HABS at Texas A&M University and the Future of Documentation
Ronald Brunskill, PhD, Leicester University, England
Robert Warden, Photogrammetry and Laser Theodolite (Montezuma Castle, AZ)
Exhibition in the MSC Stark Gallery (Funded by HABS)
2003 Culture, Landscape, and Buildings
John Wyer, Landscape Architect: Bowles and Wyer, London
2004 Innovation Conservation: Technology in Practice
[No Speakers identified]
2005 Investigation and Evaluation in Historic Preservation
Gregor Kalas, Carolyn Peterson, FAIA, Nerenda Gosain, Kent Diebolt (Vertical Access)
2006 Preparation for Preservation Practice: A Comprehensive Perspective
[No Speakers identified]
2007 Conserving Texas WWII History
Held at the Base Chapel, Riverside Campus (WWII Bryan Army Air Base, Now RELLIS Campus]
2008 Preserving the Modern
[No Speakers identified]
2009 Building on Green: Preservation and Sustainability
Carl Elefante, FAIA, Quinn Evans Washington DC
2010 Technology Preserves
[No Speakers identified]
2011 Adaptive Reuse: Architecture as a Found Object
[No Speakers identified]
2012 Disaster, Hazard Recovery, and Prevention for Historic Structures
[No Speakers identified]
2013 Texas Preservation Programs and Research
[No Speakers identified]
2014 Houston: Building Stories
[No Speakers identified]
2015 The Alamo: Structure of History
[No Speakers identified]
2016 Campus Heritage
Sylvia Kendra, Smithsonian Facilities
David Woodcock, Texas A&M University, Heritage of TAML A Personal Perspective, 1962-2012
Lilia Gonzales, Texas A&M University, Heritage Buildings and Spaces: Informing Development and Implementation
Larry Irsik and Stan Graves, Evolving Presentation Approaches: Cases Studies from UT-Austin
Paul Sanders, Broaddus, Rice University: An Architectural Legacy
2017 Heritage, Conservation, and Archeology
[No Speakers identified]
2018 African American Heritage
[No Speakers identified]
2019 Preservation in Texas: Contemporary and Future Challenges
[No Speakers identified]
2020 Preservation in Practice
Barbara Campagna, FAIA, FAPT, Buffalo, NY
2021 Difficult Campus Heritage (Virtual)
Nick Shepard, Aarhus University, Denmark
Tara Innis, University of the West Indies
Louis Nelson, University of Virginia
Rhondda Thomas, Clemson University
Tara Dudley, University of Texas at Austin
Diana Loren and Patricia Capone, Harvard University
Jody Lynn Allen, College of William and Mary
Adam Rothman, Georgetown University
Rebecca Hankins, Texas A&M university
2022 Women in Preservation (Virtual)
Nancy T. McCoy, FAIA, FAPT, LEED AP, McCoy Collaborative, Dallas, TX
Sharon Park, FAIA, FAPT, Preservation Office, Smithsonian, Washington, DC
Constance Lai, FAIA, NCARB, Preservation Services Manager, Grunley, Washington DC
Taryn Williams, PE, SE Senior Project Manager, SGH, Washington DC (APT President)
Deborah Slaton, FAPT, Principal, Wiss Janney Elster, Chicago, IL
Carolyn Kiernat, AIA, Principal, Page and Turnball, San Francisco, CA
2023 Saving Social Spaces
Adam Shalleck, FAIA, The Shalleck Collaborative, San Francisco, CA
Patrick Sparks, Sparks Engineering, San Antonio, TX
Derek O’Hara, Elysian Park Planning, Los Angeles, CA
Mike Record, AIA, The Arkitex Studio, Bryan, TX
Eva Read Warden, AIA, The Arkitex Studio, Bryan, TX
David Preziosi, FAICP, Texas Historical Foundation, Dallas, TX
Other Events
The CHC sponsors the “Heritage Matters Talks” lecture series and co-sponsors a number of other lectures and events throughout the year.