Conservation Futures: Professional Challenges for Heritage in a Changing World

The field of architectural conservation has changed considerably over the past two decades. Education and professional practice have each developed a robust set of competencies based on an evolving set of knowledge and skill sets that complement contemporary design and planning practices. How can students prepare for careers in the future? What will professional practice require as late twentieth century structures join the ranks of ‘heritage’ and climate change challenges our current responses to weathering and treatments. Please join John Fidler and Jeanne Marie Teutonico in a discussion of their own career trajectories and the evolving nature of conservation practice.

Registration is required by March 21, 2019.

John Fidler is a British-licensed architect with two postgraduate degrees in building conservation and runs his international consultancy practice, John Fidler Preservation Technology Inc., from a base in Los Angeles. John is an expert on building materials and construction, their forms of decay and deterioration, and in their benign, cost-effective and sustainable treatment (including all aspects of cleaning, conservation, repair and maintenance). He is a prolific author and informative and entertaining lecturer. He was formerly the Conservation Director of English Heritage in London, where he led a division responsible for technical policy development, scientific research, technical advice and services, standard-setting, training, outreach and publications. He devised the English Heritage Conservation Principles; developed maintenance standards for its historic estate of 420 properties (including World Heritage sites at Stonehenge and Hadrian’s Wall); and provided guidance on the cleaning, repair and restoration of numerous listed buildings. Before moving to America in 2006, he was Vice President of ICCROM in Rome, and served on the Conservation Grants Committee of the Getty Foundation. Current work includes the stabilization of the masonry ruins of the 1768 plantation house of Menokin, Warsaw, VA; the repair and restoration of the terra cotta facades of the 1915 First Congregational Church of Long Beach, CA; the stabilization and repair of the 1938 Slipstream Moderne facades of the former May Company building (now Academy Museum of Motion Pictures) in Los Angeles, CA; and editing the fourth edition of the late Sir Bernard Feilden’s Conservation of Historic Buildings.

Jeanne Marie Teutonico is Associate Director, Programs, at the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) in Los Angeles where her responsibilities include managing the Buildings and Sites, Science, and Collections departments, oversight of GCI publications, and the development of strategic priorities and processes for the Institute.   An architectural conservator with over thirty years of experience in the conservation of buildings and sites, she holds an A.B. (Hons) in art history from Princeton University and an M.Sc. in historic preservation from Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.  Prior to joining the GCI in 1999, Jeanne Marie was a conservator and educator on the staff of the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and the Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) in Rome and later of English Heritage in London where she led a large technical research and publications program.  She is published widely and maintains research interests in the conservation and sustainable use of traditional building materials. She was an invited Resident of the American Academy in Rome in 2008, and is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and the Association for Preservation Technology.