ANNUAL REPORT
1 SEPT. 2015–31 AUG. 2016
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5 visits to Cuba 27 media mentions
2 international speakers hosted 1 award from the Cuban government participation in 5 symposia
grant requests totaling $771,767
$109,936 in new revenue
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Contents About the CCS…………………………………………….…………….4 Message from the Director…………………………………………….5
The Year in Pictures……………………………….…………………6-7
Current Sponsored Research Projects…………………………….8-9
Recently Completed Research Projects…………….………………10
Emerging & Past Projects………………………………….…………11
Researchers…………………………………………………………...12
The UTSA San Antonio Missions Research Consortium…………13
Events & Outreach…………………………………………………….14
CCS in the News………………………………………………….……15
Finca Vigía in the News……………………………………………….16
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About the CCS
OUR MISSION WHAT WE DO The Center for Cultural Sustainability Analysis of cultural contexts and historic patterns of land use explores the continuity of the cultural systems of human Heritage conservation master planning and urban design existence and the common identities of heritage that bind people to places. Research on cultural assets, historic sites, and world heritage
Documentation and condition assessment of heritage assets OUR PURPOSE
The CCS provides academic Consultation on heritage conservation practices or treatments research and services to benefit communities, Adaptive use of existing buildings as a “green” endeavor completes large-scale research projects, provides research Assessment of building maintainability and durability and educational opportunities for graduate students, and Financial analysis of real estate investment and heritage tourism convenes leaders in the field for dialogue on global practices concerning sustainable Analysis of new technologies applied to specific cultural contexts development and construction.
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Message Dear Friend of the CCS, from the On Wednesday, June 15, 2016, years of hard work came to fruition as materials for Director construction of a new building on Ernest Hemingway’s Cuban estate successfully reached their destination.
This milestone in preservation efforts at Finca Vigía—a first since the 1962 embargo—is among the Center for Cultural Sustainability’s proudest achievements of 2016. Other highlights from 2016 include leadership on UNESCO World Heritage issues. We co- sponsored a Preservation Workshop with the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park, facilitated dialogue among neighborhood groups, and provided presentations at city-sponsored symposia. Mid-summer, the City of San Antonio hired us, under a contract with UTSA’s Institute for Economic Development, to complete a Market Center Director Assessment of the World Heritage Buffer Zone. The CCS is well-positioned, therefore, to William Dupont on the grounds of Finca shape future plans at the San Antonio Missions UNESCO World Heritage Site. Vigía, proudly displaying the award Looking toward 2017, the Center is in the process of centralizing UTSA’s interdisciplinary he received from the Cuban government, research related to the San Antonio Missions into one university-wide consortium. We May 2016. hope the synergy created by such a consortium will not only lead to enhanced protection Thank you Kathryn E. of the San Antonio Missions UNESCO World Heritage Site, but will also generate further Kanzler for the photo. research opportunities for our university.
From the number of research projects underway, level of student engagement, and increased public awareness, the CCS advanced on all our measures of success in 2016 and is primed for another successful year as a contributor to the College of Architecture, Construction and Planning’s goals and UTSA’s attainment of tier one status.
Sincerely,
William A. Dupont, FAIA, NCARB | Center for Cultural Sustainability, Director
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The Year in Pictures
◄ Thesis Prize Guyana ► ◄ Finca Vigía ▼ Manny Martinez (left) of the Christman Company is thrilled to see the arrival Center Director Center Director William William Dupont of containers filled with materials for the construction of the Taller, or Dupont congratulates enjoys coffee workshop, on the grounds of Ernest Hemingway’s Cuban estate. Included graduate student with Prime Minister in the shipment were windows and a table saw (bottom photo.) Chase White after Construction on the facility is shown below, right. Below, left are some of Moses Nagamootoo awarding him the 2016 the tiles awaiting installation on the building’s roof. of Guyana in June CCS Thesis Prize during the during the annual ice Georgetown cream social in May. International Chase won for his Heritage Conference, project, titled sponsored by the “Grounded.” World Monuments Fund.
▲Preservation Workshop ► The four-day event drew participants ranging from masonry expert Richard Barrow (above) to graduate students from UTSA Bryce Canyon ▲ and neighboring Professor James ‘Rick’ Lewis (above, right) and graduate student Texas State Troy O’Connor conduct fieldwork at Utah’s Bryce Canyon University. National Park. The Center developed a Historic Structures Report for the park’s Old Housing Historic District.
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Current IN PROGRESS OR UNDER AGREEMENT BEFORE 31 AUGUST 2016
Sponsored San Antonio Missions Market Assessment A goal of this project is to identify appropriate heritage Research tourism development near Missions San José and San Projects Juan. Sponsor: City of San Antonio
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Of Various Magnificence The Center is completing and making final edits to the James Ivey authored report on the architectural history of San Antonio’s missions. Sponsor: National Park Service
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State of San Antonio Heritage Resources ► Researchers’ goal for the initial 100-plus page report, the first of its kind in the city and possibly the nation, is to provide a baseline measure of the health of San Antonio’s heritage resources. Sponsor: City of San Antonio Convention & Visitors Bureau
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IN PROGRESS OR UNDER AGREEMENT BEFORE 31 AUGUST 2016 Current
Energy Retrofits Sponsored Researchers are examining Research the effectiveness of various retrofits on historic homes in Projects hot-humid climates. Phase 2, currently under way, specifically targets the effectiveness of radiant
Finca Vigía ▲ barriers. Since 2005, Center Director William A. Dupont has provided technical Sponsor: National Center for guidance for Cuban efforts to restore Ernest Hemingway’s home on the Preservation Technology and outskirts of Havana. The most recent phase of the project includes Training construction of a new facility to house papers and other personal effects
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Under1Roof Researchers are examining Bryce Canyon the impact of white roofs on A Historic Structures Report for Bryce Canyon (Utah) National Park’s NPS homes’ energy efficiency. The Old Housing Historic District includes eight cabins listed on the National project’s initial phase includes Register of Historic Places. 10 homes in San Antonio’s Sponsor: National Park Service, Colorado Plateau Cooperative District One. Ecosystem Studies Unit Sponsor: City of San Antonio
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Recently Completed Research Projects
Teaching Cultural Heritage Education Curriculum for the San Juan Spanish Colonial Demonstration Farm in Kurdistan, Iraq Provided an education curriculum and lesson plans for grades 6-12 to educate students about Held training workshops for Spanish Colonial lifeways. Lesson plans included: Economic and Agricultural Life In Mission San Iraqi professionals at the Iraqi Juan; Mission San Juan: Sustainability Then and Now; and Life In Mission San Juan: A Historical Institute for the Literacy Approach. Conservation of Antiquities and Sponsor: National Park Service Heritage (IICAH) on how to
better safeguard their own ──────────────────────────── cultural heritage. Sponsor: World Monuments
Fund Lerma’s Nite Club ► Prepared a business feasibility plan to advise an initiative to restore and ─────────────── transform Lerma’s Nite Club—the oldest live Conjunto music venue— into a cultural service site in San Antonio, Texas. Sponsor: Esperanza Peace & Justice Center KWEX/ Univision Panels
Facilitated meetings and ──────────────────────────── prepared content for three commemorative panels to
interpret historic significance of Standing Structure Survey of the Properties the former Univision Building. Fronting Travis Park Sponsor: Greystar Real Prepared a survey of seven structures around Travis Park which provides information on the Estate character and quality of the structures per criteria for listing on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Requests for Sponsored Research Projects
PAST RESEARCH Chinati—Nov. 2015, submitted qualifications of a multidisciplinary team in reply to a nationwide RFQ issued by Chinati Foundation in Marfa for a master Documentation of Sacred Places on the planning effort. Our team was not selected. West Side
Documentation of the Acequia Systems in Jamaica—Feb. 2016, submitted to the Ambassador’s Fund for Cultural San Antonio Preservation a proposal to preserve major museum collections in Jamaica. The U.S. State Department did not allocate any funds to Jamaica. The Alamo Infrared Analysis Fire Station No. 11 Historic Structures Mission Concepción—July 2016, submitted to the Texas Preservation Trust Report Fund Grant Program a proposal for a Historic Structures Report on Mission Bauer Farmstead Historic Structures Report Concepción. The proposal is awaiting approval. Miraflores Park Mitigation Project
Economic Impact of the San Antonio Under1Roof—Sept. 2016, white roof study expanded and CCS was asked to Missions submit an additional proposal. Preserving Green at 5200 Dauphine Workshop Report—Sept. 2016, asked to submit proposal to the San Antonio HemisFair Master Plan Preservation Missions National Historical Park for a report on the May 2016 Missions Component Preservation Workshop. Remote Sensing Investigation at Pipe Spring National Monument Finca Vigía—Sept. 2016, asked to submit a proposal to amend contract and San Pedro Creek Standing Structures provide additional services to the Finca Vigía Foundation for work at Museo Survey Ernest Hemingway in Cuba. Traveling on Fredericksburg Road: 120 Years in 12 Miles
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Researchers RECENTLY INVOLVED FACULTY AND STAFF
David Baenziger James R. Lewis Sue Ann Pemberton-Haugh Dr. Thomas Tunstall Senior Business Development Senior Lecturer, Architecture, Senior Lecturer, Architecture Director of Research, Specialist, IED CACP and Historic Preservation, Institute for Economic CACP Development
Dr. Saadet Beeson Dr. Angela Lombardi Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Dr. Hazem Rashed-Ali Visiting researchers Architecture, CACP Architecture and Historic Associate Professor, Curtis Bobsin Preservation, CACP Architecture, CACP Owner, C. Bobsin Organs
Dr. David Bojanic Claudia Guerra Anheuser-Busch Foundation Monique Long Dr. Harriett Romo Cultural Historian, City of San Professor of Tourism, COB Research Associate IV, Director of Mexico Center Antonio Office of Historic IED Center for Community and Professor, Sociology, Preservation and Business Research COLFA Prof. Ian Caine Mark Tirpak Assistant Professor, University of Technology Architecture, CACP Dr. Randall Manteufel Tracie Quinn Sydney Associate Professor, Marketing Associate, CCS Engineering, COE Dr. Anne Parmley Toxey Dr. Sedef Doganer Owner, Toxey/McMillan Design Associate Professor, Prof. John Phillip Santos Associates Architecture, CACP Dr. Paul Shawn Marceaux University Distinguished Director, Scholar in Mestizo Cultural Center for Archaeological Studies, Graduate assistants Prof. William Dupont Research Honors College 2015-2016 San Antonio Conservation Pegah Amini Society Endowed Professor, Mahamudual Hasan Asif CAPD, and Director of CCS Amanda Martinez, Dr. Thomas Thomson Elsa De León Research Associate II, Quincy Lee Distinguished Mohamed Abo Issa IED Center for Community Professor of Real Estate and Carolina Dominguez Perez Dr. Suat Gunhan and Business Research Finance, COB Cristina Gonzalez Pope Associate Professor and Mansour Yousefpour Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Undergraduate Studies, CACP
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SCHOLARS LISTED BY COLLEGE AND AREA OF EXPERTISE
The UTSA College of Architecture, Dr. Azza Kamal College of Liberal and Fine Construction and Planning Urbanism Arts San Antonio William A. Dupont Dr. David R. Johnson Heritage Conservation Diane B. Hays History of San Antonio Renovation Missions Public Policy
Dr. Sedef Doganer Heritage Tourism Dr. Vincent Canizaro Dr. John Reynolds Research Regionalism History
Dr. Angela Lombardi Materials Conservation Dr. Antonio Petrov Institute of Texan Cultures Consortium History of Architecture Angelica Docog Dr. John Murphy College of Education and Museum Administration Construction Science Human Development Dr. Bryan Howard
Anthropology Sue-Ann Pemberton-Haugh Dr. Kimberly Bilica Preservation Curriculum Development Dr. Sarah Gould
Local History, Pre-San Antonio James “Rick” Lewis Alycia Maurer
Building Restoration/Reuse Curriculum Development Center for Archaeological
Research Dr. Hazem Rashed-Al Institute for Economic Dr. Paul Shawn Marceaux Energy Efficiency Development European Artifacts Robert M. McKinley Dr. Shelley Roff Economic Development Clinton McKenzie Historical Influences of Underprivileged Areas Rancho de las Cabras on Missions’ Design Jose Zapata Dr. Thomas Tunstall Archaeology and Dr. Richard Tangum Economic Impact Urban Planning Historic Preservation
Morrison Woods Dr. Maggie Valentine Small Business Architectural History
College of Business Dr. Rebecca Walter History of Residential Dr. David Bojanic Segregation Tourism
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Events and Outreach
Oct. 2015-ongoing, Center Director William Dupont has participated as a panelist and served on the steering committee for a city-sponsored series of symposia examining the impacts of UNESCO World Heritage Status on San Antonio’s Spanish colonial missions. Additionally, Dr. Sedef Doganer has participated by facilitating smaller breakout sessions on economic development.
Nov. 2015, Center Director William Dupont moderated a panel discussion for the Alliance for San Antonio Feb. 2016, As part of Villa Finale’s “Power of a Dream” lecture series, Missions. Center Director William Dupont gave a lecture titled “Lessons in Cultural Sustainability from Cuba.” Jan. 2016, Center Director William Dupont began consulting with the City of San Antonio’s Office of April 2016, Dr. Angela Lombardi co-organized the guest lecture “Saving Historic Preservation and its HIA Advisory Committee Pompeii: Contemporary strategies for its preservation,” presented by regarding the use of Heritage Impact Assessments on Italian civil engineer Jonas Orlandi. the San Antonio Missions. May 2016, The CCS co-sponsored with the National Park Service a four- Feb. 2016, Dr. Hazem Rashed-Ali discussed Energy day workshop regarding preservation issues at San Antonio’s Spanish Retrofits during an event sponsored by Preservation colonial Missions. Austin. June 2016, Center Director William Dupont traveled to Guyana to discuss Feb. 2016, Dr. Angela Lombardi co-organized the guest Architectural Preservation Theory during the Georgetown International lecture “Texas influences: Burri and Artistic avant-gardes Heritage Conference, sponsored by the World Monuments Fund. in America and Italy,” presented by Alberto Dambruoso Aug. 2016, Dr. Hazem Rashed-Ali discussed Energy Retrofits during the from the Fine Arts Academy of Foggia, Italy. City of San Antonio’s Historic Homeowner Fair.
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CCS in the News
San Antonio Business Journal • UTSA to identify ‘suitable prospects’ near missions (06-03-2016) • UTSA to help craft economic strategy to leverage city's World Heritage brand (06-16-2016)
KSAT-TV • Citywide project aims to replace disadvantaged homeowners' old roofs (05-25-2016) • Homeowner feels difference after getting ‘white roof‘ (07-07-2016)
San Antonio Express-News • World Heritage mission: balancing history and growth (10-17-2015) • Tourists want a local experience, locals say (12-05-2015) • Want a cooler house? Get a white roof (07-06-2016)
Rivard Report • Alliance for San Antonio Missions Convenes First Roundtable (11-18-2015) • City Discussing 100 Day Plan to Address Mission Challenges (11-23-2015) • World Heritage Symposium Highlights Need for Strategic Development, Storytelling (12-06-2015)
Discovery Magazine
• Applied Research for a Sustainable City Model (2015-2016)
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Finca Vigía in the News
San Antonio Current Crain’s Detroit Business Cubaencuentro.com The Associated Press UTSA Professor Helps First materials headed to EEUU continúa el rescate US hardware arrives in Restore Ernest Cuba for Christman's project de Finca Vigía Cuba to protect Hemingway’s Cuban at Ernest Hemingway (04 -26-2016) Hemingway possessions Home (04-27-2016) property (04-11-2016) (06-16-2016) Time Warner Cable News CNBC.com Texas Society of Architects UTSA Professor Helps Yahoo! Finance UTSA professor helping William Dupont, FAIA, Works Restore Hemingway's UTSA Professor Helping preserve, restore to Preserve Hemingway’s Legacy in Cuba Preserve, Restore Hemingway’s famed Finca Vigia in Cuba (05-07-2016) Hemingway’s Famed Cuban home (04-16-2016) Cuban Home (04-13-2016) Sombrilla (04-13-2016) Latin American Architecture professor Wall Street Journal Herald Tribune William Dupont continues Radio Reloj Hemingway’s Homey Cuba, U.S. Collaborate to his work to preserve Ernest Restaurarán el Museo Cuban House Preserve Hemingway Legacy Hemingway’s former home Finca Vigía (05-12-2016) (06-24-2016) (Fall 2016) The Paisano UTSA Today UTSA architecture professor UTSA professor helping San Antonio WOAI-AM 1200 advises restoration project of preserve, restore Express-News UTSA Professor Helping Hemingway’s Cuban home Hemingway’s famed to Restore Hemingway’s (04-27-2016) UTSA architect working to Cuban home Cuba Retreat preserve Hemingway’s (04-11-2016) (04-12-2016) Cuba home (04-22-2016)
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