Week

Subjects

Fall 2003

1

Introduction to Architectural Conservation

• Overview of Course
• Preview of Assignments.
  Find most Assignments at: http://epreservation.net/Learning/Learning_Tools/

Sept 8

Professional Training and Qualifications

• Are Architectural Conservators Worth Their Salt?
  
• Preservation Education and the Real World
• Organizations (reading)
• Architectural Conservation Organizations (A selection will be on the mid-term exam.)
• Proposed Historic Preservation Professional Qualification Standards
  
• Historical Architects
  
• Code of Ethics
• Professions in and Related to Historic Preservation (Assignment 1)

Standards and Terminology

• McDonald, Travis. Understanding Old Buildings: The Process of Architectural Investigation, NPS Preservation Briefs #35, 12 pp.
• Code of Ethics and Guidelines for Practice of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC)

Collections, Building Systems, Characterization and Interrelationship; CSI Construction Divisions

• Nelson, Lee H., AIA, Architectural Character Identifying the Visual Aspects of Historic Buildings as an Aid to Preserving Their Character, NPS Preservation Briefs #17
• Caring for your Historic House; read Introduction pp. 6-9, Miller 10-28. On reserve in Architecture Library.
• CSI 16-Division Format, The Construction Specifications Institute
  • UNIFORMAT II
  • CSI 16-Division Format
  • The Construction Specifications Institute, MASTERFORMAT; UNIFORMAT publications
  • Architects' First Source for Products

Architectural Styles

• Assignment #4:Architectural Conservation and Architectural Styles review assignment, for which your have been given one style.
• American Architectural Styles read.
  • This is also posted on our "Warren" site at American Architectural Styles)
• Studying Architectural Styles read
• Architectural Sourcebooks and Other Publications read.
  • Be able to provide examples of each: European sources; guide/copy books; pattern books; theory books; periodicals.
  • Select pertinent publications to reference in your specific "style" for the assignment.
• Be ready to discuss architectural styles in class, with examples provided.

Preservation Treatments

This material has been added, to provide an introduction to site work in Warren, and in developing site analysis, with reference to preservation standards and treatments.

Find links to all "Architectural Styles" reading under Week 4, above!

Read

• The Secretary of the Interior's Standards (also included in Guidelines, below).
  • Guidelines Read through all "treatments"
  • Rehabilitation Tutorial peruse.
• Statewide Survey and Planning (read first for oeverview)
• Rhode Island State Survey: Overview
• National Register of Historic Places, NPS
  • Summary at National Register of Historic Places
    • Listing a Property read and be ready to discuss.
    • Results of Listing read and be ready to discuss.
  • National Register Information System (NRIS)
    • Database "Test drive" the database by looking for NR listing in a few places: your homefront, etc.
• National Historical Landmark be able to define.
• National Trust's National Main Street Center
  • Approach

Oct 6

Preservation Standards for Treatment

• Be prepared to discuss The Secretary of the Interior's Standards (also included in Guidelines, below) assigned for last week, too.
  • Guidelines read through all "treatments"
  • Rehabilitation Tutorial read
• Peruse Charters: Specifically the SPAB Manifesto; Venice Charter. Define charters.
• Read the Burra Charter.

Development of American Commercial Storefronts

• Preservation Briefs 11: Rehabilitating Historic Storefronts read
• Preservation Briefs 17: Architectural Character - Identifying the Visual Aspects of Historic Buildings as an Aid to Preserving Their Character

American Architectural Styles

• Assignment #4 Architectural Conservation and Architectural Styles (due)

Conservation Research Project

• Architectural Conservation - Research Bibliography review scope and start working on your subject (by reading the Brief and then proceeding to find other resources). Check out two examples from past years. Let me know if you have questions, need direction...
• Your Conservation Subject, with reference to Preservation Briefs, where applicable
• Abstract due October 14 (refer to abstract example)

Warren Settlement, Commercial Development, Changes, and Future
Guest lecture by Bonnie Warren

Quiz: Secretary of Interior's Standards

8

Site Visit — Warren

• Site investigation of select commercial buildings.
• Discussion of methodology.
• Review of Seretary of Interior's Standards quiz.

Oct 27

9

Collections Stewardship and Preservation Treatments

Peruse upper level of each section of this site; user ID, password needed...provided by email.

• Chart of Heritage Stewardship Process
• Standards and Terminology
• Collections and Building Systems
• Stewardship
• Records
• Risk Management
• Preservation
• Treatments

Masonry

• Preservation Briefs #1
  Assessing Cleaning and Water-Repellent Treatments for Historic Masonry Buildings
• Preservation Briefs #2
  Repointing Mortar Joints in Historic Masonry Buildings
• Preservation Briefs #6
  Dangers of Abrasive Cleaning to Historic Buildings
• Efflorescence (CBD 2)

  Skim: Log in on the Brick Institute of America site and then go to the following.

• BIA Technical Notes 6, Painting Brick Masonry
• BIA Technical Notes 6A, Colorless Coatings for Brick Masonry
• BIA Technical Notes 23, Efflorescence, Causes and Mechanisms, Part 1
• BIA Technical Notes 23A, Efflorescence, Causes and Mechanisms, Part 2

• Inspection Residential Rehabilitation Inspection Guide, pp.24-61(Chapter 3: Building Interior; Chapter 4: Structural System [to be brought to class]
  

Nov 3

10

Moisture

• Building Analysis — Causes of Deterioration
• Holding the Line: Controlling Unwanted Moisture in Historic Buildings
• Performance of Building Materials (CBD 115), Canadian Building Digests
• Water and Building Materials (CBD 30), Canadian Building Digests

Wood

Read the following Canadian Building Digests:

• Some Basic Characteristics of Wood (CBD-85)
• Some Implications of the Properties of Wood (CBD-86)
• Decay of Wood (CBD-111)
• Exterior Coatings for Wood (CBD 91)
• Performance of Building Materials (CBD 115) - skim
• Humidity in Canadian Buildings (CBD 1)
• Vapour Barriers in Home Construction (CBD 9) - skim

Borate wood preservative information, Preservation Resource Group

Here, placed in the context of the Newport asssessment:

• Risk Management (Index)
• Water (Moisture)
• Temperature
• Relative Humidity
• Fungi and Mold

Nov 10

11

Finishes

• Paint —What is it? (CBD-76)
• NPS Preservation Brief 10: Exterior Paint Problems on Historic Woodwork by Kay D. Weeks and David W. Look, AIA
• NPS Preservation Brief 28 Painting Historic Interiors by Sara B. Chase
• Paints and Other Coatings (CBD-78) skim
• General Recommendations For Painting Buildings (CBD-172) skim
• Downing — Historic Paint Colors

To follow up on Masonry....

Print out this specification, Section 04100 on Masonry Repointing and Restoration, and "make it bleed" — mark it up with suggested changes and additions (products, techniques, references) based on your reading of Preservation Briefs #2 Repointing Mortar Joints in Historic Masonry Buildings, and other material, including your search of other Web-based resources. We will briefly discuss these in class and I will collect your mark-ups.

 

Nov 17

12

Roofing

• Exterior Systems, start with links to From the Roof Down...Skin Deep; proceed to Preservation Briefs, especially 4, 39, 19, 29 in that order, depending on time available.
  
• Sweetser, Sarah M. Roofing for Historic Buildings, Preservation Brief 4, Technical Preservation Services, NPS, 1978 (images updated for Web publication)

Envelope (Thermal and Moisture)

• Systems Approach
• Building Systems (Index)
• Structure
• Envelope (Thermal and Moisture)
• Roof and Gutter
• Exterior Walls
• Openings
• Foundation and Drainage

Nov 24

13

Architectural Conservation Assessment

• Presentations

Dec 1

14

Conservation Bibliography

• Presentations
• Materials and Products—Resources for your Annotated Bibliography project

Dec 8

15

Final

Finals Week