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Seminars, Workshops, Tours and Special Events
Saturday, April 8, 2006
7:00 am – 8:30 am
H02: AIA Historic Resources Committee Breakfast
1 AIA HSW CEU
Location:
Cliff Dwellers Club
200 South Michigaon Ave
Chicago, IL 60604
Sponsored by the AIA Historic Resources Committee, you'll enjoy a hearty breakfast, a thought-provoking presentation by Timothy Samuelson, Cultural Historian for the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, and a valuable networking opportunity at this annual event. The setting for this year's breakfast is the renowned Cliff Dwellers Club, whose members have included Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Sullivan. Enjoy breathtaking views of Lake Michigan and the city skyline from the Club's rooftop dining room and gallery, and see the desk at which Sullivan wrote his autobiography.
8:00 am – 10:00 am
W15: Snug and Sound: The Restoration & Weatherization of Window Frames & Sash
Introductory to Advanced 2 AIA HSW CEUs
Speaker: Duffy Hoffman, Owner, Hoffman Painting and Refinishing, Inc. Pipersville, PA
This comprehensive session will take you from the restoration of wood windows through re-installation and weatherizing. An overview of the history of window sash and glass will serve as a foundation for the presentation.
- Learn about the restoration of wooden window frames, including paint removal and epoxy repair.
- Follow a sash restoration project from start to finish, including removal, repair, and reinstallation, paint removal and reapplication, glass removal, glazing, and reinstallation.
- Examine the pros and cons of window weatherization.
8:00 am - 11:15 am
W16: Understanding Lime Mortar
Advanced 3 AIA HSW CEUs
Speaker: John Speweik, Vice President, and Mario Machnicki, President, U.S. Heritage Group, Inc., Chicago, IL
Will you specify lime putty, hydraulic lime, or hydrated lime for the re-pointing mortar on your next preservation project? Through lecture and demonstration, this session will explore one of the hottest topics in preservation architecture – lime mortars.
- Learn to identify ingredients in historic mortar and understand the differences between Portland cement, hydrated lime, lime putty, and hydraulic lime.
- Recognize failures caused by inappropriate mortar formulations.
- Discuss ASTM Standards that relate to specifying traditional lime materials with no cement.
8:30 am – 12:30 am
W17: Pullman Historic Site Tour - Hotel Florence and the Industrial Sites
Introductory to Advanced 2.5 AIA HSW CEUs
George Pullman created a company town in 1878 on 500 acres of land. By 1883, it had 7,000 inhabitants and was bustling center of commerce. Architect Solon S. Berman and Landscape Designer Nathan F. Barrett transformed a mélange of swamp and farmland into a state of the art city for workers. Our focus today will be an investigation of the plans for the as yet, unrestored Hotel Florence, a tour of industrial sites that remain, and the restoration of the Pullman Administration Building (almost destroyed by fire in 1998.
- Learn about critical steps to plan for a restoration in light of a disaster
- Understand the complexities of adapting large historic structures formerly in commercial use for interpretation in light of codes, public interest, and economic reality
- Review the particular challenges associated with interpreting large industrial sites and industrial ruins to the public.
8:30 am – 9:30 am
T07: Moldings & Millwork 1725-1940
Introductory 1 AIA HSW CEU
Speaker: Brent Hull, President, Hull Historical Millwork,
Fort Worth,TX
This talk will provide a sweeping overview of millwork and moldings from 1725-1940. Using photographs to identify unique molding characteristics of each period, correct design decisions will be discussed. An emphasis on classical design and its influence on molding use and placement will be included. How moldings were made and what they represented will also be included.
- Understand two hundred years of American Architectural Millwork.
- Learn to distinguish moldings by their shape and characteristics.
- Develop a broad view of the stylistic differences between periods.
A05: From Portico to Patios: Architectural Styles in the U.S.
Introductory 1 AIA HSW CEU
Speaker: Tommy Kleckner. Director. Western Regional Office, Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana, Terre Haute, IN
This session will provide an overview of the predominant architectural styles of the United States from pre-Revolutionary to mid-20th century, with a particular focus on the Midwest region. Common architectural details, features, and forms, as well as certain building types, will be discussed to help individuals quickly recognize styles and elements. An understanding of architectural styles allows owners and professionals to make informed decisions about restoration and preservation.
- Learn the elements of various architectural styles.
- See examples of both high style and vernacular structures.
- Learn to distinguish style to date and assess buildings.
A06: Saving Bucky’s Dome
Intermediate 1 AIA HSW CEU
Speaker: Cornelius Crane, President RBF Dome NFP, Carbondale, IL, and Don Moore, Advisor, RBF Dome NFP.
This presentation will explore and applaud the achievements and history of R. Buckminster Fuller. The only geodesic dome that he lived in was in Carbondale, IL and it is currently being preserved. Visionaries such as Fuller and their imaginative and creative designs for the future will be featured in this talk.
- Learn about the life and history of R. Buckminster Fuller.
- Understand the process of restoring a geodesic dome.
- Appreciate other visionaries and their creations.
9:00 am – 12: 00 am
H03: AIA Historic Resources Committee Tour: Glessner House and Clarke House
Introductory to Advanced 2.5 AIA HSW CEUs
Join members of the AIA Historic Resources Committee for a tour to Glessner House, “Richardson’s archetype for an attached urban house,” designed in 1886 by H.H. Richardson. Tour participants will learn about preservation work at Glessner House, a National Historic Landmark, with representatives of Johnson Laskey Architects. The tour will also include Clarke House, built in 1836, and considered Chicago’s oldest surviving building.
9:35 am –10:35 am
T08: Adapting Your Company’s Resources So You Can Do the Work You Love
Intermediate
Speaker: Troy Axe, President and Owner of Legacy Renovation Products & Services, Tacoma, WA
Traditional construction and restoration contractors are passionate about their area of expertise but often struggle with business management. This presentation will examine ways to utilize resources most effectively for each individual job. Properly and creatively using your company’s resources will help you to consistently meet expected requirements for on time completion and profitability.
- Learn to recognize and define resources as flexible tools.
- Discover how to incorporate alternative labor resources to increase production capacity.
- Learn to adapt your skills to maintain profit in your company.
P05: Righting Wright: The Process of Restoration
Intermediate 1 AIA HSW CEU
Speaker: Amy C. Darkow AIA Assoc., Restoration Designer, Chambers, Murphy & Burge Restoration Architects, Ltd., Akron, OH
This presentation will use Frank Lloyd Wright’s Westcott House as a case study to explore the entire process of a major restoration from preliminary investigation to completion. At the start of the restoration, this house had been cut into seven apartments and was structurally unstable due to beam strain and insect damage. The steps taken to restore this house to its 1908 grandeur will be discussed.
- Understand how to research the history of a building.
- Discuss the process involved when restoring a building that has been altered.
- Examine the approaches used to reproduce an historic appearance when the materials have been damaged or removed.
R06: Late 19th and Early 20th Century Kitchens and Baths
Introductory to Advanced 1 AIA HSW CEU
Speaker: Marilyn Casto, Associate Professor, School of Architecture & Design, Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, VA
This presentation will explain the development of kitchens and bathrooms in the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries, including use of space, materials, storage methods, lighting, colors, and the rationale for design choices. Concerns about hygiene and efficiency, together with new technology and materials, helped in the creation of these spaces.
- Understand the layout and space planning of kitchens and bathrooms of this period.
- Discuss the rationale for the use of materials, lighting and equipment.
- Appreciate how the current use of such spaces can reflect historic development while meeting current needs.
S06: Going Green Without Going Broke
Introductory 1 AIA HSW CEU
Speaker: Mary G. Z. Severino, AIA, LEED, President, MGZA, Wilmington, DE
Forward-thinking companies understand the value of sustainability and are investing money into facilities that are certified as such. Based on the LEED criteria, this session will feature ways to utilize green products and techniques in creative, enticing, visually pleasing, and budget conscious ways. The demand for “green” has driven costs down as manufacturers produce more products with sustainability in mind. Examples of products and pictures of installations that work toward environmentally sensitive solutions will be featured.
- Understand LEED criteria and the process for building certification.
- Identify “green” products.
- Discuss the costs and benefits of “green” vs. “non-green.”
10:30 am – 4:00 pm
Exhibit Hall Open
10:45 a.m. –11:30 a.m.
Chicago’s "Mr. Fix-it": Live in the Exhibit Hall
Lou Manfredini: Author, Columnist, and Host of WGN’s “Ask Mr. Fix-it”
Manfredini on Maintenance
Do something Chicagoans do every Saturday morning from 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m! Spend Saturday Morning with Lou Manfredini, Join Mr.-Fix-It, live and in person, at the Traditional Building Exhibition and Conference as he shares his best tips for home maintenance. Whether your home or your client’s is a stately Queen Anne, blissful bungalow, or newly built in a traditional style-regular routine maintenance is the best way to protect it. Ample time for Q&A will follow Lou’s remarks.
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
A07: In the Style of The Master:
Renewing Stained Glass Windows By Louis Comfort Tiffany
Intermediate/Advanced 1 AIA HSW CEU
Speaker: Kevin Grabowski, Project Director, Conrad Schmitt Studios, Inc. New Berlin, WI
Learn why glorious American Opalescent style windows have the highest risk of any art glass for deterioration and damage – and why preserving them should be a national priority. Over the course of a century, the forces of gravity, heat, cold, and moisture have taken their toll on the 32 windows created by Louis Comfort Tiffany to grace Broad Street Presbyterian Church in Columbus, Ohio. Today, the windows are undergoing a meticulous process of documentation, conservation, and re-leading by Conrad Schmitt Studios.
- Identify Tiffany-style American Opalescent stained glass and know its unique attributes, creators, production method, and installation.
- Learn why it is at increased risk for deterioration.
- Understand what physical and environmental stressors damage stained glass.
- Become familiar with the terminology of glass conservation and understand the distinction between stained glass conservation, restoration, and stabilization.
P06: Preserving Historic Neighborhood Schools
Introductory 1 AIA HSW CEU
Speaker: Royce A. Yeater, Midwest Director, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Chicago, IL
Historic neighborhoods schools are being abandoned at an alarming rate, leaving many neighborhoods where kids once walked to school remote since the building of K-12 campuses accessible only by car or bus. The National Trust Historic Neighborhood Schools Initiative, launched in 2000, has begun to yield positive results. This presentation will address school planning decisions affecting traditional neighborhoods that will preserve historic schools as the anchors of their communities.
- Understand the importance of historic schools to the health and vitality of neighborhoods.
- Examine the process by which neighbors can influence school facility decisions.
- Learn the pattern of abandonment that has removed schools from neighborhoods.
R07: Tracing the Past in a New Old House
Introductory/Intermediate/Advanced 1 AIA HSW CEU
Speaker: Russell Versaci, Versaci Neumann & Partners,
Middleburg, VA
This talk will trace the lineage of classic American house styles. Using old houses as precedents, skilled architects of today translate this historic raw material into new homes for modern living.
- Understand the relationship between early colonial settlements and today’s settlements.
- Learn old ways of building that have been relearned by contemporary architects.
- Appreciate the houses listed in the archives of the Historic American Buildings Survey.
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
A09: The 1893 Chicago World’s Fair and its Influence on American Architecture and Design
Introductory 1 AIA HSW CEU
Speaker: Arlene A. Wright, ASID, CID, Owner, Wright Design Associates, Rochester, NY
The competition to be the host city for the 1893 World’s Fair was vigorous. This presentation will examine the forces that shaped this event, the personalities involved, and the problems that threatened its completion and success. Using slides made from historic photos and maps, one can appreciate the enormous feat of producing this spectacular World’s Fair. The ways that this Fair changed the world’s opinion of American cultural achievement will be discussed.
- Understand the history and importance of the Fair.
- Appreciate the stories of the key players who made this event a reality.
- Discuss how the Fair changed the world’s opinion of American culture.
T10: The Frescoed Facade:
Traditions, Theories, and Techniques
Intermediate 1 AIA HSW CEU
Speaker: David Mayernik, President, David Mayernik, Ltd.,
South Bend, IN
Fresco, or buon (true) fresco in Italian, is the technique of painting with pigments in water on a fresh (thus fresco) lime plaster wall. David Mayernik, an architect who also paints in buon fresco, will discuss the background of this technique, the materials and how to use them, and strategies for composing new frescoed facades. The issue of permanence will be examined.
- Learn about buon fresco.
- Understand the steps necessary to create a frescoed wall
- Discuss the strategies for designing a frescoed wall.
P09: The Teardown Effect – A Panel Discussion
Introductory 1 AIA HSW CEU
Speakers: Genell Scheurell, Program Officer, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Chicago, IL; Jean Follett, Ph.D., Historic Preservation Consulting, Hinsdale, IL; Robert R. Kiely, Jr., City Manager, City of Lake Forest, Lake Forest, IL; Ellen Shubart, Campaign for Sensible Growth, Chicago, IL
Teardowns bring change to a community. Often it is a kind of change that communities are not prepared to manage. Outdated zoning codes, lack of historic preservation ordinances, low permit fees, lack of design guidelines for single-family residential construction, and no impact fees for replacement housing contribute to the impact of teardowns.
- Learn about the driving forces behind teardowns.
- Examine the risk factors involved in teardowns.
- Discuss the options for controlling teardowns.
R08: Assembled Houses:
Why they don’t make’em like they used to!
Introductory-Advanced 1 AIA HSW CEU
Speaker: Brent Hull, President, Hull Historical Millwork,
Fort Worth,TX
Assembled Houses will relate the last 100 year history of home design in America and will trace why many new houses don’t have the character and charm of old homes. Houses are assembled today from a tremendous number of standard parts, often these parts are chosen haphazardly and without direction. By studying the process and the role of the architect, builder and homeowner, the audience will gain new insights into how homes are designed and built. This talk will also include many solutions to the problem of loss of character and what can be done so that new homes with character matter again.
- Review home design and building practice and the roles of owner, architect, and builder
- What builds character and charm into a home
5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Historic Resources Committee Reception
Enjoy spirits and hors d’oeuvres with your colleagues, friends, and members of the AIA Historic Resources Committee at the Corporate Office of Driehaus Capital Management, Inc.
The mansion located at 25 East Erie in Chicago, IL, is the corporate headquarters for Driehaus Capital Management, Inc. and Driehaus Securities Corporation. This 15,000 square foot mansion was designed by the prominent Chicago architect, Henry Ives Cobb, and built in the Richardson's Romanesque style in 1886 as a residence for Ransom R. Cable, President of the Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company. Today the home remains a rare Chicago witness to a time when H.H. Richardson of Boston and his Romanesque style expressed a time of optimism — the ground between the old and the new — between technology and art — much like today.
Sunday April 9, 2006
9:00 am – 12:00 noon
AIA Historic Resource Committee Business Meeting
Location:
Core Center of Crown Hall
Illinois Institute of Technology
3300 South Federal Street
Chicago, IL 60616
Join AIA Historic Resources Committee members for an informal business meeting and discussion. Learn more about the initiatives of the AIA Historic Resources Committee, and its upcoming programs. This meeting will be held at Crown Hall, which houses the College of Architecture at Illinois Instititute of Technology, designed by Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe. The program will include an opportunity to view recent restoration work to this landmark building of the Modern Movement with preservation architects. A continental breakfast will be served.
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