Word: preservationism
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Van Valkenburgh received an honor award from the National Trust for Historic Preservation for this restoration, which blends into the existing landscape and represents the antithesis of the sort of project that trumpets the artist’s own ego.
In the 17th and 18th centuries, the Common was home to grazing cattle. Now, unlucky Quadlings trek across its grassy lawns as a short-cut between the Yard and their far-flung dorms—walking through what was the training ground for George Washington’s troops in...
With the Villa i Tatti, Harvard is serving as caretaker of cultural and personal legacy: paintings, books, buildings and grounds that epitomize their respective eras and locales. It would be a tragedy—not just to Renaissance scholars, but to human culture—to let them tarnish. Though...
The building will house the Weissman Preservation Center (WPC), which maintains and repairs the library’s collection of manuscripts and rare books. It will also hold the Office of Information Services (OIS), which is the main control base for the online HOLLIS catalogue, he said.
“In particular, tasks such as cataloguing, preservation, and acquisition are best done within a library setting,” Kirby wrote.