This Saturday, promises a fascinating day-long conference on public housing preservation. The Fitch Colloquium: Why Preserve Public Housing? is organized by Columbia University's Historic Preservation Program and co-sponsored by Docomomo US. Themes will revolve around "The Architecture of Public Housing: Preserving a Post-War Legacy." Join us at Columbia's Wood Auditorium in Avery Hall from 9:00 am to 5:30 pm.
Photo courtesy of Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University
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Program as follows:
9:00-9:30 | Welcome and Opening Remarks | Andrew Dolkart
9:30-10:00 | Preserving Public Housing: Dilemma or Opportunity? | Theodore Prudon
10:00-10:30 | What do we preserve? Lessons from 75 years of public housing in America? | Joseph Heathcott
10:30-11:00 | Mid-morning break
11:00-11:30 | The Preservation of Form and Function in American Public Housing | Elizabeth Milnarik
11:30-12:00 | Recording our Recent Past: Scotland’s survey and preservation initiatives of Post-War Sites and Monuments, 1985-2012 | Diane Watters
12:00-12:30 | Panel discussion and summary
12:30-1:30 | Lunch
1:30-2:00 | Public Housing in France | Jean-François Briand
2:00-2:30 | The Netherlands: Housing before and after WWII and their appreciation
2:30-3:00 | Mid-afternoon break
3:00-3:30 | Modern Housing in Rio de Janeiro: the Pedregulho Residential Estate | Flavia Brito
3:30-4:00 | Soviet era Housing in Georgia | Levan Asabashvili
4:00-4:30 | Preserving the social housing experiences in Casablanca | Abderrahim Kassou
5:00-5:15 | Sunny Fischer
5:15-5:30 | Summary and Closing | Joseph Heathcott
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