Historic Preservation Firm Visit in NYC - Spring 2023

Students will gather at Beyer Blinder Belle (BBB) for this career development visit to New York City. Senior Associate Nate Rogers (MArch'11, MSHP'11), along with colleagues Hillary Morales Robles (MArch’22, MSHP’22), and Gladysa Vega (MSHP’12) will introduce the firm and talk about professional projects and their personal experiences translating their educations to the professional world. They will lead a tour of the office area at BBB.

After lunch Glenn Boornazian, Founding Partner, and Principal Conservator at ICR-ICC (Integrated Conservation Resources, Inc. and Integrated Conservation Contracting, Inc.) will give a presentation about his professional journey and introduce ICR-ICC.

Bios:

Nate Rogers is an Architect specializing in the creative challenge of new design within historic settings. He brings planning and design acumen, preservation expertise, and multi-disciplinary coordination and management skills to large-scale projects for public-sector clients and significant cultural and educational institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harvard University, and the City of Somerville, Massachusetts. He received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University and dual master’s degrees in architecture and historic preservation from the University of Pennsylvania. Nate joined BBB in 2011.

Hillary Morales Robles, Assoc. AIA, is an Architectural Designer. She is especially interested in the creative challenge of incorporating contemporary design into historic settings. She graduated from the University of Puerto Rico, Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor’s in Environmental Design and a Minor in Art History. At the University of Pennsylvania, Stuart Weitzman School of Design, Hillary graduated with double master’s degrees in architecture and historic preservation, with an emphasis on Preservation Design. At UPenn, she received the 2022 Elizabeth Greene Wiley Award for Outstanding Promise, and a 2022 Anthony Nicholas Brady Garvan Award for her thesis entitled “Tactical Preservation for Climate Emergency: Adaptive Reuse of 20th C. Public Schools in Puerto Rico”. She joined BBB in 2022.

Gladysa Vega is an Architectural Designer and Architectural Conservator who focuses on preservation as well as new construction projects by combining her design background with experience in analysis of historic building materials and hands-on implementation of conservation treatments.  She holds a Master of Architecture from Columbia University, a Master of Science in Historic Preservation with emphasis in Building Conservation from the University of Pennsylvania; and a bachelor’s degree in environmental design from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. She is a member of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC) and The Association for Preservation Technology (APT). Gladysa joined BBB in 2015.

Glenn Boornazian brings credentials, experience, and vision to the architectural conservation field. In 1988, recognizing that the market for historic preservation services was highly fragmented, he started what would become Integrated Conservation Resources, Inc. (ICR) and Integrated Conservation Contracting, Inc. (ICC), in order to combine investigative architectural conservation services with high-quality conservation and restoration contracting. Today, as President of ICR and ICC, Glenn draws on his extensive knowledge of building materials conservation to provide technical services for historic buildings and monuments. His expertise includes specialized conditions investigation, materials testing, analysis and assessment, and the implementation of treatment recommendations. After studying at Columbia University’s Graduate Program in Historic Preservation, Glenn served as Staff Conservator for the Center for Preservation Research at Columbia University, and Director of Restoration for the Nantucket (Massachusetts) Historical Association.  He was an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University’s Graduate Program in Historic Preservation and speaks widely on historic preservation. Currently, Glenn serves on the boards of the James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation.