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ReVisioning Preservation

Thursday, August 27, 2020
@ 5:30 PM

free and open to the public

AIA members receive 2.0 LU/HSW for attending
SEE COURSE DESCRIPTION AND LEARNING OBJECTIVE here

 
 

ReVisioning Preservation provides an opportunity to look back on the last century of historic preservation efforts, ideas, and outcomes in Santa Fe and explore how we can advance this vital endeavor while also examining ongoing shifts towards more equity and inclusion in historic preservation practice nationally. This session seeks to generate discussion about the diverse meanings historic places hold among the people of Santa Fe, the diversity of experiences residents have had in interfacing with historic preservation regulations here, and the interplay between the tangible and the intangible in conserving cultural heritage.

Revisioning Preservation is a part of ReVisioning History series. View this entire series here.

 
 

ABOUT REVISIONING PRESERVATION PANELISTS

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Beverley Spears

Principal, Spears Horn Architects

Beverley founded Spears Architects in 1981 offering commercial and residential design, historic preservation, urban design and landscape architecture. In 2011 the firm, now Spears Horn Architects, was recognized by the American Institute of Architects as New Mexico Firm of the Year. Ms. Spears is the author of American Adobes and also Early Churches of Mexico, an Architect's View, both published by UNM Press.  Beverley received the New Mexico Architects Medal in 2000 for “contributions that have advanced the profession and the socially responsible role that architecture must perform within our greater society.”  In 2002, she was elevated to the national College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects. In 2003, she was honored by the Old Santa Fe Association “for her contributions to the character and traditions of Santa Fe.” 

resource: Design and Preservation in Santa Fe: A Pluralistic Approach (1977)

 
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Shawn Evans

Principal, AOS Architects

Shawn is the principal-in-charge of the Santa Fe office of AOS Architects, a 27-person architecture, planning, and preservation firm. He has led planning and preservation projects for the pueblos of Cochiti, Ohkay Owingeh, Santo Domingo, and Zuni, as well as Eastern State Penitentiary, Los Poblanos Historic Inn, and the Palace of the Governors. He is currently overseeing the Siler Yard housing project in Santa Fe, among other projects. A graduate of Texas A&M University and the University of Pennsylvania, he has taught architectural design and preservation philosophy at Temple, Penn, and UNM. He is a past fellow of the James Marston Fitch Foundation and has spoken at many regional and national preservation, place-making, and museum conferences.  His work was featured in the 2018 Venice Biennale in an exhibit entitled, “A Future Oriented Preservation.”

resource: Santa Fe Historic Districts Ordinance (1957)

resource: Santa Fe Historic Districts Ordinance (current)

 
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Estevan Rael-Gálvez

Principal, Creative Strategies 360°

Anthropologist, historian and cultural consultant, Dr. Estevan Rael-Gálvez is the former Senior Vice President of Historic Sites at the National Trust for Historic Preservation. He also served as the executive director of the National Hispanic Cultural Center and as the state historian of New Mexico and in that role as the Chairman of the New Mexico Cultural Properties Review Committee. A native son of New Mexico, with ancestral and living ties to both Native American and Indo-Hispano communities, he is currently completing his book, Bound—The Shadows of Native American Slavery and Its Legacy. His consulting firm is currently engaged in several initiatives, including developing community based archives within indigenous and Hispano communities.

resource: Culture Connects Santa Fe: A Cultural Cartography (2016)

 
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Mark Mitchell

Preservation Specialist and former Governor, Pueblo of Tesuque

Mark is the current Cultural Preservation Director and Tribal Historic Preservation Officer for the Pueblo of Tesuque. Mark first served on the Tribal Council of Tesuque Pueblo in 1993. In 2005, he was appointed as the youngest Governor of the Pueblo and has served as governor five times since that time (2009, 2011, 2013, and 2017). He is a lifetime member of the Pueblo of Tesuque Tribal Council, and in 2009 was elected as the Chairman of the Eight Northern Indian Pueblo Council, for which he has held multiple positions. In 2013, Mark was appointed by the All Pueblo Council of Governors to serve on the Natural Resource Committee, of which he is currently Co-Chair, and as the Commissioner of the 19 District Committee.

resource: Santa Fe Plaza Cultural Landscape Report (2005) 

 

GUEST MODERATOR

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Rachel Preston Prinz

Principal, Archinia

Rachel Preston Prinz is an architecturally-trained designer and preservationist who has spent the past 20 years working in sustainable architecture, historic and cultural preservation, and placemaking. Rachel holds a Masters' in Architecture and a Certificate of Historic Preservation from Texas A&M. She is the founder of the hybrid architectural preservation and storytelling practice The Ministry of Architecture and is known for her TEDx and Pecha Kucha talks about architecture and place in New Mexico and beyond. Rachel is an award-winning author, filmmaker, and dot connector working to confront New Mexico’s architectural mythology, in order to rediscover and celebrate the forgotten principles underlying our thousand year tradition of sustainable design.

 
 

ReVisioning Planning Resources

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Culture Connects Santa Fe: A Cultural Cartography (2016)

LEAD BY DR. ESTEVAN RAEL-GALVEZ FOR THE CITY OF SANTA FE

Completed in 2016, Culture Connects Santa Fe is a cultural roadmap for the City of Santa Fe, which “began with the simple premise that every person has a story worth telling and remembering and that individually, each embodies something valuable for the whole—imagination, knowledge, creativity, and will.” This pivotal study recognizes culture as a dynamic set of practices that hold the potential to connect Santa Feans to one another and “to invigorate the vitality and spirit” of our community, sustained only when integrated into the fabric of everyday lives and among both the public and private sectors. The plan provides a set of value statements and navigational tools for understanding the diversity and complexity of what it means to be a Santa Fean and for crafting City policies that reflect these themes.

Design and Preservation: A Pluralistic Approach (1977)

CITY OF SANTA FE

This report consists of four articles dealing with different aspects of design and preservation in Santa Fe. As stated in the introduction, the study was an attempt to provide a better understanding of the variety of historic architectural styles and complexity of development patterns present in Santa Fe’s historic districts, with the intention of providing a basis for improving the City’s “Historical District Regulations” such that they may better reflect and accommodate the diversity of Santa Fe’s historic neighborhoods. The first article, Notes on Structure, examines the geographical setting, original city plan, and layout and its interconnected system of agricultural terraces, acequias, and roadways connecting nearby villages, and traces the patterns of development and growth of Santa Fe over time. Primer of Themes and Motifs explores design principles and themes reflected in Santa Fe’s historic built environment. Architecture of Santa Fe—A Survey of Styles, delineates and describes the range of architectural styles present in Santa Fe’s historic districts, looking beyond the regulatory emphasis on “Santa Fe Style” to document the diversity of built form. And finally, Visual History—Townscapes and Evaluar presents a typology of “townscapes” reflected in Santa Fe and proposes a new framework for evaluating how well a restoration, remodel, or construction proposal meets historic preservation criteria.

Santa Fe Plaza Cultural Landscape Report (2005)

Morrow Readon Wilkinson Miller, LTD. Landscape Architects

The purpose of this study is to identify and document the historical significance of the features and characteristics of the Santa Fe Plaza to set a foundation for future development and management decisions. The study examines the city, state, and federal regulatory contexts in which the Plaza is managed, as a result of its central location within the City’s Downtown and Eastside Historic District, listing on the State Register of Cultural Properties and National Register of Historic Places, and designation as a National Historic Landmark. The study takes a “cultural landscapes” approach, following the Secretary of the Interior’s standards for Cultural Landscape Reports and taking into account the Plaza’s physical, historical, cultural, and administrative contexts in recommending management strategies.