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 04/01/2008
SCAD hosts Preservation Week May 4-9
Highlights include hard hat reception, lecture by Roberta Brandes Gratz
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Seven preservation experts will meet in Savannah to speak during Preservation Week, a free event sponsored by the Student Preservation Association at the Savannah College of Art and Design, May 4-9.
 The week of lectures will be kicked off at a hard hat party at the Kennedy Pharmacy, a rehabilitation project featuring work by students in the SCAD historic preservation department. The pharmacy’s restoration is sponsored by the Isaiah Davenport House Museum and the Historic Savannah Foundation and is located at 323 E. Broughton St., Savannah, Ga.
Preservation Week headliners include Roberta Brandes Gratz, award-winning journalist and urban critic; Patrice Frey, director of sustainability research for the National Trust for Historic Preservation; Jim Draeger, architectural historian; and Adrian Fine, director of the Northeast Field Office of the National Trust for Historic Preservation; among others.
Sponsors for the event include the Isaiah Davenport House Museum, Celia Dunn Sotheby’s International Realty Keynote Presentation, and the Historic Savannah Foundation. For more information about Preservation Week or the SCAD historic preservation department, visit www.scad.edu/historic-preservation.
The schedule of events includes:
May 4 — Hard Hat Opening Reception, “The Preservation Spirit” Lecture by Cuffy Sullivan
Sunday, 5 p.m., Kennedy Pharmacy building, 323 E. Broughton St., Savannah, Ga.
The Isaiah Davenport House Museum and the Student Preservation Association will host a hard hat party at the Kennedy Pharmacy, a rehabilitation project featuring work by the SCAD historic preservation department. Cuffy Sullivan, SCAD alumna (B.F.A, historic preservation, 1986) and SPA founder, will speak at the party.
May 5 — “Restoring the Icons of Chicago: The Work of Sullivan, Wright and Mies” Lecture by T. Gunny Harboe, AIA
Monday, 7 p.m., River Club, 3 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Savannah, Ga.
T. Gunny Harboe has lectured extensively around the world, and his recent projects include Frank Lloyd Wright’s Unity Temple, Mies van der Rohe’s Crown Hall, Louis Sullivan’s Carson Pirie Scott store and Holabird & Root’s Chicago Board of Trade building, all of which are National Historic Landmarks.
May 6 — “McMansions and Teardowns: Impacts on Historic Neighborhoods” Lecture by Adrian Scott Fine
Tuesday, 7 p.m., River Club, 3 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Savannah, Ga.
Adrian Fine is the director of the Northeast Field Office of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Much of his work focuses on taming the teardown trend and promoting awareness and advocacy for protection of historic structures.
May 7 — “The Cultural and Economic Impact of Historic Preservation” Lecture by Pam Bryan
Wednesday, 7 p.m., River Club, 3 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Savannah, Ga.
Pam Bryan is the director of Operation Comeback, a program of the Preservation Resource Center of New Orleans. For Preservation Week, she will discuss her program's most recent projects and the positive influence historic preservation can have on a community.
May 8 — Roberta Brandes Gratz
Thursday, 7 p.m., Unitarian Church, 311 E. Harris St., Savannah, Ga.
Roberta Brandes Gratz is an award-winning journalist and urban critic, lecturer and author of “The Living City: How America's Cities are Being Revitalized by Thinking Small in a Big Way,” and “Cities Back from the Edge: New Life for Downtown.” She is an international lecturer on urban development issues and a former reporter for the New York Post. Gratz was appointed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg to the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in February 2003. A reception will follow the lecture in Troup Square directly outside of the Unitarian Church, 311 E. Harris St., Savannah, Ga. Co-sponsored by the Celia Dunn Sotheby's International Realty Keynote Presentation and the Historic Savannah Foundation.
May 9 — “Sustainable Stewardship: “Promoting the Preservation Ethic to Combat Climate Change” Lecture by Patrice Frey
Friday, River Club, 3 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Savannah, Ga.
Patrice Frey is the director of sustainability research for the National Trust for Historic Preservation. She joined the National Trust after several years working in the field of community development and urban research.
May 9 — “Fuelish Thoughts: Lessons Learned from the Lowly Gas Station” Lecture by Jim Draeger
Friday, 7 p.m., River Club, 3 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Savannah, Ga.
Jim Draeger is an architectural historian and the deputy state historic preservation officer at the Wisconsin Historical Society. His work focuses on roadside vernacular architecture of the Midwest.
Named one of Kaplan’s “25 cutting-edge schools with an eye toward the future,” the Savannah College of Art and Design is a private, nonprofit, accredited institution with locations in Atlanta and Savannah, Ga., and in Lacoste, France. Undergraduate and graduate degree programs also are offered online through SCAD-eLearning. The college offers Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Master of Architecture, Master of Arts, Master of Arts in Teaching, Master of Fine Arts, and Master of Urban Design degrees.
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