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SUMMARY:Panel: Yes\, In Your Backyard: How Accessory Dwelling Units are Compatible in Historic Districts
DESCRIPTION:A virtual presentation hosted by the Cleveland Park Historical Society and DC Preservation League \nJoin us for a Zoom presentation exploring how Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs)\, including basement apartments\, backyard cottages\, and garage conversions\, can be thoughtfully integrated into historic districts. This program will focus on the idea that preservation and change can work together to support a more inclusive and sustainable city. \nArchitect Ileana Schinder will begin by defining what qualifies as an ADU and explaining the different types homeowners might consider. Drawing on her expertise navigating zoning and working with the Historic Preservation Office (HPO)\, she will walk through the process of designing and gaining approval for ADUs. \nTodd Jones of the Historic Preservation Office at the DC Office of Planning will provide an overview of the common ways that ADUs appear in historic districts\, how preservation guidelines apply\, and how HPO evaluates proposals to ensure compatibility with existing historic resources. \nWhether you’re a homeowner considering an ADU\, a preservation advocate\, or interested in how DC can grow thoughtfully\, this conversation will offer valuable guidance and a fresh perspective on how we can say “yes” to both history and housing. \nREGISTER HERE\n \nIleana Schinder is an architect in Washington\, DC. She graduated with a Bachelor’s in Architecture from Universidad Nacional de Cordoba (Argentina\, 2000) and an M.A. in Communications from the American University (Washington DC\, 2006). \nInspired to become an architect at the age of four by playing with Legos on the floor\, she remains motivated to design houses of all sizes 40 years later. Since opening her architecture studio in 2014\, with creativity and innovation\, she has designed additional dwelling units that create new spaces for clients and their families to thrive. \nAs part of her efforts to educate the public on housing issues\, Ileana has also written in blogs and held sessions to inspire and promote innovative models of home. Ileana is the author of “Housing for Humans: A Book to Imagine\, Create and Design a New Housing Model in America” (Panoma Press\, 2021). \nIleana was born and raised in Argentina. She lives in Washington\, DC\, with her family and her dog\, Colette. \n \nTodd Jones has worked at the DC Historic Preservation Office since 2020\, where he has conducted project reviews\, historical research\, and preservation planning. He previously worked as a historical researcher and as a Historic Preservation Specialist with the Federal Emergency Management Agency in the New England region. He is originally from Connecticut and earned a master’s degree in public history from Central Connecticut State University.
URL:https://dcpreservation.org/event/adu-panel/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:Public Meeting: Housing Black Washington Multiple Property Document
DESCRIPTION:Please join the DC Historic Preservation Office\, the DC Preservation League\, and Architectural Historian Heather McMahon for this public presentation about the Housing Black Washington Multiple Property Document. This project is funded by an Underrepresented Communities Grant from the National Park Service. \nThis study looks closely at the places Black Washingtonians have called home over time. It especially explores housing considered “affordable\,” meaning it was intended for working-class residents\, since African Americans have always made up a significant portion of the District of Columbia’s working class since racial restrictions kept many in lower-wage\, blue-collar or service-sector jobs. Since the District of Columbia’s founding\, housing for African Americans had often been relegated to rear yards\, back alleys\, isolated neighborhoods\, and undesirable locations. Their homes were hidden although their work was salient: Black Washingtonians helped build the White House\, the U.S. Capitol\, Washington’s grand avenues\, and national monuments. \nThis meeting is free to attend! \nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://dcpreservation.org/event/public-meeting-housing/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:Webinar: Beyond Coverage: Recording How Historic Places Are Understood
DESCRIPTION:In preservation practice\, visual documentation is often understood as a tool for recording conditions\, tracking projects\, or supporting communications. While these functions are essential\, they do not fully account for what visual media can reveal. \nThis webinar explores how photography and film can capture how historic places are presented and understood in the present. \nDrawing on cinematic and photographic examples\, Elena Tibbetts will examine how meaning is articulated within a space\, through voice\, sequence\, and spatial experience\, and how these moments form a durable record of a site as it is experienced and interpreted. \nThe session will consider how this type of documentation complements traditional archival records by preserving not only what a place is\, but how it is explained and encountered. \nThrough this lens\, visual media becomes a way of recording the lived and interpreted condition of historic sites. \nThis webinar is free to attend! \nREGISTER HERE\n \nElena Tibbetts is a filmmaker and photographer whose work focuses on the visual documentation of historic architecture and cultural sites. Her practice centers on recording how historic places are understood and interpreted in the present\, with particular attention to continuity and change over time. Through cinematic and photographic work\, Elena explores how visual media can extend traditional archival records by capturing the relationship between architecture and institutional voice. Her films are used by historic sites and cultural organizations to shape how these places are presented and understood\, and are often incorporated into public-facing\, interpretive\, and fundraising contexts. She is the creator of The Architectural Guide of Washington\, D.C.\, a photographic field guide highlighting the city’s historic built environment.
URL:https://dcpreservation.org/event/webinar-beyond-coverage/
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: Georgetown University: An Architectural History
DESCRIPTION:Spanning the university’s genesis in 1789 through to today\, the new book\, Georgetown University: An Architectural History\, provides the reader with a close look at over fifty campus buildings. \nThis book presentation will explore the Georgetown University campus over time with highlights of its historical and modern architecture\, from the Old North building (1795) to its twenty-first-century development. With modern photographs as well as historical images drawn from the university archives\, we will discuss the background of Georgetown’s buildings. The talk will highlight multiple periods in the university’s history including its entanglement with slavery\, the presidencies of Patrick Healy\, SJ and W. Coleman Nevils\, SJ as well as its mid-twentieth century and later university leadership. \nThe Georgetown campus includes architecture by leading historical and contemporary designers such as John Smithmeyer and Paul Pelz\, Emile Perrot\, John Carl Warnecke\, Hugh Hardy\, Hugh Newell Jacobsen\, and Robert A.M. Stern Architects. The buildings exemplify a host of architectural styles including Federal\, Romanesque and Gothic Revival\, International Style\, Brutalist and Postmodern. Changes in the university landscape and connections to broader trends in American campus development will be highlighted. Lastly\, we will also discuss the book’s curriculum connected development. \nYou can buy the book here or on Amazon. \nThis book talk is free to attend! \nREGISTER HERE\n \nStephanie Rufino is an architectural and art historian and has published on the decoration and architecture of both the Washington National Cathedral and historic American banks from the 1920s. Dr. Rufino holds a PhD in American art and architectural history from the University of Virginia and an MBA from Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. She graduated cum laude from Smith College and also earned a master’s degree in art history. Dr. Rufino taught architectural history at Georgetown for over a decade\, where she also served in multiple university leadership roles. She currently serves as Director of Undergraduate Design Programs and Associate Professor at Wentworth’s School of Architecture & Design in Boston.
URL:https://dcpreservation.org/event/book-talk-georgetown-university/
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