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PRESERVATION ALUMNI M E M O of Columbia University Summer 2008 “GREEN DESIGN:” The New Term for Old-Fashioned Preservation BY JAMIE GIBBS I grew up in the 60s when recycle was not a word yet. Air pollution was only a recognized problem in major cities. Green was only a color and we had one waste basket in the kitchen. At the same time, I was raised by my grandparents. They had lived through two World Wars, the Great Depression, several recessions and rationing, and they were cautious! In other words, without the government or consumer groups telling us to be thrifty and conscientious, we cashed in Coke bottles, gave the milkman back empties, reused aluminum foil, balled string, wrapped garbage in old newspapers and never left the lights on. The house was a comfortable 65 degrees in the winter and 75 degrees in the summer. Meridian Street House - Indianapolis, Indiana Today’s greening mandates on residential and commercial - Photo courtesy of Jamie Gibbs design are not a big mystery. They are a logical progression (see GREEN DESIGN, p. 3) PRESERVATION ALUMNI NEWS Letter From the President in organizing the party. PA also held This summer has brought both our first ever stand-alone Career Day great happiness and great sorrow in Avery Hall and by all accounts the to the Columbia University Historic turnout was great. Thanks should Preservation Program community: go to PA board member Amy Diehl- INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Happiness (and relief) for the Crader ’03 for putting it all together. recently graduated Class of 2008 PA also held our third members- Green Design..................Page 1 but also sorrow at the loss of two of only tour in January, organized by our most influential faculty members, Gina Crevello ‘98. PA members got President’s Letter............Page 1 Jan Hird Pokorny and Paul Byard. treated to a behind-the-scenes look PA Book Donation...........Page 2 A memorial service, attended by at Grand Central Terminal. many alumni, was held for Jan in There have been a few changes In Memoriam: June. One is planned for Paul in over the past few months on the Professors Pokorny September. Our thoughts are with PA board, including the addition of and Byard........................Page 4 the families of both men. several members. Please welcome Spring Party.....................Page 6 Preservation Alumni has been very our newest members: Christine active the first half of the year. I Djuric ’01, Sabine van Riel ’06, would like to thank everyone who Richard Handler ’08, and Cristiana braved the stormy weather to attend Peña ‘08. Please also welcome our spring party at the Merchant’s our first-year (soon to be second- House Museum. I would especially year) student representative, like to thank PA board member Lindsay McCook ’09. We also have Blaire Walsh ’07 for all her hard work (see LETTER, p. 2) Preservation Alumni, Inc. is an LETTER (continued from p. 1) PA Makes Annual Book independent, non-profit organiza- Donation to Avery tion founded and run by alumni of a change in board leadership, with the Historic Preservation Program Amy Diehl-Crader ‘03 taking on the Library’s Rare Books at the School of Architecture, Plan- role of Vice President and Jennifer Collection ning and Preservation at Columbia Most ’05 stepping up to serve as University. The mission of PA is the new Secretary. I would like to In the fall, the PA Board once again to support and enrich the Historic extend a special thanks to outgoing Preservation program by advising board members Dan Lane ‘00, Mike gathered in Avery’s rare books and assisting the students, faculty Caratzas ’02, Jacqui Hogans ’05, room to review options for PA’s an- and George Jaramillo ’05, who have and alumni, and to advance pres- nual donation to the library’s grow- ervation as a diverse field of public each provided years of hard work to ing collection. This year we were and professional endeavor. PA. pleased to be able to contribute two I also want to thank the editors of items: an 1890 chromolithographic PA Board of Directors the PA Memo, Sybil Young ‘04 and President Britton Baine ‘04, for putting together two-fold brochure advertising The Kevin Seymour another great issue. Please contact New Combination Folding Bath- Vice President them if you have an article that you tub manufactured by the Marshall would like to submit. You can e-mail Amy Diehl-Crader Furnace Co.; and the 1876 W.S. them at info@preservationalumni. Secretary org. Blunt’s Report on Jennings Clos- Jennifer Most ets [to Colo. Goe. E. Waring Jr.] I would like to invite you all to come Treasurer along with a Description of Blunt’s to our annual fall party to be held Serianne Worden on September 4 at the Scandinavia Massage Apparatus from 1893. House on Park Avenue. Join us in Britton Baine welcoming the new class of 2010, Blunt was a manufacturer of force Joselito Corpus welcoming back the class of 2009, and suction pumps, and Waring Gina Crevello and congratulating Andrew Dolkart was a drainage engineer for Central Christine Djuric ’77 in taking over as Director of the Park in the mid 19th century. The Richard Handler Historic Preservation Program. Stay report makes recommendations Alvin Ho tuned for other upcoming events, Jacqui Hogans including a reception for the GSAPP for improvements to the first toilet, Cleary Larkin Alumni Weekend, a volunteer work while Marshall Furnace promotes Lindsay McCook day and a winter members-only a new folding bathtub with the event. Check our website, www. Cristiana Peña slogan, “No need for a bathroom. Lindsay Smith preservationalumni.org, for the latest Every family should have one.” Sabine van Riel events and of course keep an eye out for our e-mail announcements. Blaire Walsh If you’re interested in contribut- Sybil Young Please keep your membership ing to PA’s annual donation to and contact information current so the library, please visit our web- we can keep you in the loop. If you have events or job openings site, www.preservationalumni.org. The Memo welcomes submissions that you would like posted on the from alumni, students, faculty and website, send them to friends. Please contact us at: [email protected]. Preservation Alumni I hope you all enjoy the rest of P.O. Box 669 your summer and I look forward to Peck Slip Station seeing you all in the fall. New York, NY 10272 [email protected] Best Wishes, Editors: Sybil Young Kevin Seymour, Class of 2002 Britton Baine 2 GREEN DESIGN (continued from p. 1) architects, designers and restoration renovation that will include the specialists have received green restoration of original tile, limestone for a preservationist. They are common certification for their fabrication, and custom brick. More importantly, sense and thriftiness combined with design or construction activities. There we have received approvals to use new products and services that finally are Continuing Education courses energy efficient interior windows address the need to conserve our and industry-sponsored certification in combination with the restoration energy and protect our environment. programs readily available. Having a of original single-strength leaded As a design professional specializing collegiate education in preservation in the preservation, restoration has taken on new meaning in the and habitability of residential and current job market. Our skills are commercial spaces for thirty years, honed and now required on many I have found the transition towards development projects. specifying and designing to the standards of LEED and the U.S. Green There are new agencies and websites Building Council easier in recent years. useful to the preservationist. The US After pushing the preservation of not Green Building Council, AIA, ASID and LEED all have excellent materials Solarium Fountain - Meridian St. only the environment but existing - Photo courtesy of Jamie Gibbs materials, original architecture, and the available for download from their windows; solar-collecting tile for a reclamation or recycling of architectural websites. Most local municipalities replacement carriage house roof that materials for many years, I am pleased also have links or tabs on their “dot- will duplicate the original structure but that this is now actually a mainstream gov” websites that explain local have many additional benefits; new philosophy. Those of us with requirements, tax incentives, energy devices to collect gray water for use preservation backgrounds certainly rebates and loan programs for green in the landscape irrigation system; have an experiential advantage over design. Even local utility companies and reduced turf areas and increased those of the “tear it down and start have green programs useful to the preservationist. We have not seen this landscape plantings that are drought volume of incentive programs since and disease resistant. These are just the energy crisis of the late 1970s. a few of the many preservationist Anyone who reads the descriptions activities on this job that qualify will recognize that green design is as green design. Our background preservation. in preservation made the historic research on the property much easier. To exemplify this unique symbiotic With period photography, testimonials relationship between preservation and Stained-Glass - Meridian St. the green movement, I’d like to cite a from previous owners, newspaper - Photo courtesy of Jamie Gibbs recent example from my own practice. and magazine articles, and collections over” school. In numerous land-use In Indianapolis, Indiana I am restoring in local, state and federal archives, fields, we are seeing a surge in the a 1922 “Gatsby-era” mansion in the we were able to justify every design need for our services. Meridian Street Historic District. We proposal, including materials, usage are using energy credits from the local and the impact on the historic district.