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The Getty Conservation Institute Field Trip Report By F. LeBlanc, Head, Field Projects APT Conference, Galveston, TX Nov. 3-7, 2004 What is APT? The flag of Texas The Association for Preservation Technology International (APT) is the premier cross-disciplinary organization dedicated to promoting the best technology for conserving historic structures and their settings. With 1500 members in 28 countries, APT connects a network of architects, conservators, trades people, consultants, planners, curators, landscape architects, engineers, developers, educators, engineers, historians, apprentices and students. J.M. Teutonico receives the Harley J. McKee Award APT Conference brochure with an illustration of the construction of the sea wall built after the Great Storm of 1900 APT President Natalie Bull handing the Harley J. McKee Award to Jeanne Marie Teutonico The Harley J. McKee Award is the highest honor bestowed by the Association for Preservation Technology International to recognize outstanding contributions to the field of preservation technology over Hotel Galvez built in time. Harley James McKee, FAIA (1905-1976) was a preservationist, 1911, venue of the APT architect, author, and professor, and a participant in the second APT 2004 Conference meeting held at Upper Canada Village in 1968. His thirty-year teaching career benefited several generations of students at five 1 universities, concluding with a twenty-year tenure at Syracuse University. APT President Natalie Bull said: “This year’s recipient of the Harley J. McKee Award was genetically hard-wired for a distinguished career in research and education, having been born to a materials researcher and a teacher. Influenced by peripatetic early studies that touched on mathematics, music, art history and literature, this individual became committed to the field of architectural preservation after a stint of European travel and a course on Renaissance architecture with Princeton Professor David Coffin. Hotel Galvez interior A degree in art history was followed by a Masters of Science in Historic preservation from Columbia University. Then, a scholarship to the Architectural Conservation Course at ICCROM in Rome. Later, a research fellowship to work with Dr. Giorgio Torraca on the development of grouts for wall paintings conservation... Her history of collaboration, strategic research and publication now stand her in Typical Galveston good stead as Associate Director of the Getty Conservation Institute, commercial where since 1999 she has managed the Science and Field Projects architecture departments and created an international training program. Additional roles include serving as chair of the 2003 and 2004 juries for the Rome Prize, and contributing to US ICOMOS as a Trustee at large. And her focus on preservation technology and materials continues to be exercised in 2005; she will give the keynote address at the 2005 International building Lime Symposium. Galveston residential architecture In recognition of these achievements, the Association for Preservation Technology is pleased to award the 2004 Harley J. McKee Award to Jeanne Marie Teutonico.” Galveston industrial architecture Galveston Trolley Stop 2 John Fidler, Keynote Lecture John Fidler, Conservation Director, English Heritage Foundations of Sand? - A Commentary on Quality and Consistency in Conservation and the Need for Standards By: John Fidler, Conservation Director, English Heritage, London, England John made a historical review of the development and use of standards that went all the way back to the Romans. He talked about different types of standards and how important they are to the development of any industry or profession. He went on to say that in the UK, there are very few standards for conservation of historic Hugh C. Miller shared buildings. And the ones that exist are not read, not applied or not highlights from the understood. Simple repairs to masonry continue to be poorly careers of four APT “giants” who passed executed. away this year: Martin E. Weaver, Thomas Spiers, Because there are no recognized definitions of competency in the UK Elliott Carroll and for heritage preservation, English Heritage has decided to move Charles Peterson forward with the development and implementation of standards for professional practice. RIBA, AABC, RIAS, RIAI, RICS, ISE/ICE, and loC(URIC) are all the acronyms of professional associations that have agreed to collaborate with English Heritage to “raise the bar” and develop standards for proven competence in heritage preservation for their professionals. This strategy should go into effect during the coming year. Though they have been particularly active in setting standards during the past century, engineers are not applying those skills to the field of conservation. There is a world crisis for training engineers and we are also getting into a big crisis with craftsmanship. Good craftsmen are disappearing at an alarming rate. Susan Buggey, Chair of the College of Fellows jury presented the He concluded by saying that “charters are vital, but they need better awards to the new illustration and promotion”. inductees 3 Nicholas Stanley-Price, College of Fellows Lecture Standards in Conservation and Cultural Diversity By: Nicholas Stanley-Price, Director-General, International Centre for Nicholas Stanley-Price, the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property Director General of (ICCROM), Rome, Italy ICCROM Dr. Stanley-Price talked about standard-setting instruments, especially the international ones such as the Charters adopted by international professional bodies and the international Recommendations and Conventions such as the ones created by UNESCO. In particular, he reviewed the UNESCO World Heritage Convention of 1972 that was meant to create a list of natural and cultural properties of outstanding universal values but that until now has failed to do this in a truly universal way. There is a great imbalance on the current list between properties Natalie Bull, President of nominated from Europe and North America and the rest of the world APT was celebrating her as well as between cultural and natural properties. Dr. Stanley-Price birthday that evening commented on several other international conventions. International standard-setting instruments are essential, but they will never replace “understanding” as the basis for motivating people and governments to act in the right or appropriate way. 2004 College of Fellows Inductees Mariachi playing during the Banquet and Awards Ceremony 2004 Fellows: D. Woodcock, M. Kaplan, S. Schur, A. Staehli, D. Slaton and T. McGrath Rosanne Dubé, from N.Y., Editor of the APT Communiqué 4 APT Conference in Galveston Galveston residential architecture on Postoffice street Typical commercial buildings on 21st Street in Galveston, Texas For better or worse, Galveston was founded and grew on the narrow Galveston residential barrier island that protects the bay from the relentless waves of the architecture Gulf of Mexico. The bay was home to the nomadic Karankwa, a base for the pirate Jean Lafitte, and explored by Cabeza de Vaca. The town was named for Bernardo de Galvez during Spanish rule. Texas became a republic in 1836 and Galveston grew rapidly as a commercial port, and as a center for banking and trade. By the 1880s, having survived Texas’ unionization, secession during the Civil War, Galveston residential and the trials of Reconstruction, it was one of the leading cotton ports architecture and financial cities in the United States. The Strand, “The Wall Street of the South”, has many grand buildings, several by local architect Nicholas Clayton. The city boasted many Texas ‘firsts. ’ From post office, private bank, telegraph, gas lights, electricity, cotton compresses, telephone exchange, national bank, chain newspaper, electric street cars, to medical school and cathedral, Galveston led the The Strand in Galveston way. The wealth and the bustle came to a sudden and tragic stop during the night of September 8, 1900 when the island was struck by a massive hurricane that killed more than 6,000 people and destroyed two thirds of the city’s buildings. Galveston refused to die after The Great Storm. It constructed a massive seawall, and endured six years of sand being pumped onto the city to raise the grade and reduce the impact of future storms. The economy of the island changed from a trading port on Galveston Bay to a freewheeling playground on the Gulf of Mexico. Much of the business moved to Houston, and many of the great buildings were The Strand in Galveston abandoned. late on Saturday afternoon 5 Publication of “The Galveston That Was” in 1966 drew attention to this heritage, and acted as a catalyst for renewal of the Strand area. Galveston now boasts five districts on the National Register of Historic Places. Conference participants met in one of the heroic gestures of the rebuilding, the Hotel Galvez, which opened its doors on the newly constructed Seawall Boulevard in 1911. Today Galveston is a gulf-side playground, a center for education, research and medicine, and a vibrant heritage tourism and conference venue. It is still a port for shipping, cruise lines, and off-shore oil, and the famous shrimp fleet is still housed at Pier 19. History is being used as well as enjoyed, and APT conference attendees found it a rich learning environment. Workshop participant Sara Chase from Lexington MA Decorative Paint Workshop November 3 – 4 Workshop participant Chris Hutson, Architect from Austin, TX Master Painter

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