From Assessment to Treatment: Determining Integrity & Applying the Standards

Two critical concepts in historic preservation are assessment of historic integrity and application of the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for treatment of historic resources.  This day-long workshop will cover the fundamental concepts of integrity used in the evaluation of historic resources and examine local, state and national thresholds for determining integrity. Instructors will examine how the condition of resources affects integrity – from assessment of an individual resource to a district assessment. The second half of the session will cover the application of the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards with case studies covering the topics of reversibility, contextual infill, compatible alterations and additions. The day will close with a tour of Ventura’s turn-of the century sites to assess integrity and the Standards covered in the lecture.

Learning Objectives

1. Differentiate between projects that meet the standards and those that fail to comply
2. Engage with creative methods for meeting the standards using solutions from case examples
3. Examine the seven aspects of integrity and their relationship to historic significance
4. Develop guidelines for evaluating integrity with modern resources

Agenda & Handouts

Agenda, Bio, & Handouts

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3. SchaferIntegrityInteractive
4. JohnFosterJan2016
5. SchaferAssessingIntegrityJan2016

Speakers

	John M. Foster, RPA, Vice President, Greenwood & Associates. Mr. Foster has 32 years of experience (23 as Associate with Greenwood and Associates; vice president since 1995) as project director or manager on extended, complex federal and state projects. His responsibilities include: project oversight, field strategy, research design development and implementation, logistical coordination, client/management liaison, and subcontractor management.Other areas of expertise include Section 106 and CEQA implementation with emphasis on working with Caltrans and their objectives. Transportation projects are a specialty and have varied from Railroads to the Space Shuttle. Major projects have included two years at Diamond Valley Reservoir as Prinicipal Investigator for Historical Investigations, Project Manager for the MTA on Los Angeles Redline, Project Manager for Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District, and others.
	Peyton Hall, FAIA, Managing Principal, Historic Resources Group, LLC, Pasadena, CA. Adjunct Professor, School of Architecture, University of Southern CaliforniaPeyton Hall has practiced architecture and planning since 1974, and in California since 1980. He earned a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Virginia and a Master of Environmental Design in Urban Development Analysis with a thesis in historic preservation from Yale University. He holds a certificate from the Center for Palladian Studies in Vicenza, Italy, and was a Fellow at the National Cultural Properties Institute in Tokyo, under an international program sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts. Academic recognition includes the AIA School Medal from the University of Virginia and the Parsons Medal in Planning from Yale.
	G. Taylor Louden, Principal, GTL Architecture. Mr Louden has architectural degrees from the University of Virginia and Columbia University. His portfolio of work includes numerous New York City and Los Angeles area landmarks. Since 2004 he has consulted as an independent historical architect. Louden’s projects have been recognized for excellence in the field of historical architecture and preservation, receiving a National Trust Preservation Award, and Los Angeles Conservancy Preservation Design Awards.Mr. Louden has served over two terms as the Architectural Representative on a Los Angeles Planning Department Historic Preservation Overlay Zone review board. Louden has presented several sessions at California Preservation Foundation conferences, directing panels on historical preservation design, and workshop seminars on the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards. He serves on CPF’s education committee. In 2011 he received a Certificate of Recognition by the City of Los Angeles for his work in the field of historic preservation.
	Stephen Schafer (AKA: Schäf) opened his photography studio in Ventura in after receiving his education from Brooks Institute of Photography, in Santa Barbara, and the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He specializes in architectural photography traveling worldwide for his projects.HABSPHOTO.com produces architectural and engineering documentation projects for a range of clients including: Perkins+Will, Shea Properties, Page & Turnbull, Chattel Inc., the Port of Long Beach, the Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority, NASA, SBRA, EBMUD, DNC, GPA, HRG, ASM, Æ, LSA, URS, SCE, PG&E, the City of L. A., and numerous other agencies and acronyms.Schäf is an expert in architectural photography with a practiced understanding of historic structures. He has completed documentary building and engineering surveys for architectural historians, municipalities and cultural resource management firms.

Continuing Education

AIA -HSW Building Science and Performance Design and Design Services Materials and Methods Project Types AICP - HSW Hazards History Law ASLA - HSW Accessibility / ADA Design-Build Historic Preservation Project Management

Images Courtesy Stephen Schafer

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