Join the board of SAH MDR virtually for our annual general meeting on June 24. We’ll review what we have been up to over the past year, announce this year’s Elisabeth Walton Potter Research Award recipient, and look forward to our upcoming programs and events.
We are thrilled to welcome special guest Amalia Leifeste, an Associate Professor and the new director of the Historic Preservation Program at the University of Oregon. She will introduce herself and provide brief remarks about her new appointment and her vision for the program.
All are welcome, membership is not required. We look forward to seeing you!
About Amalia Leifeste from the University of Oregon:
Amalia Leifeste began her architectural education here at the University of Oregon. She credits the school's teaching philosophy, particularly in human-centered and context-sensitive design, as providing the foundation of her interest in preservation architecture. Working at an architecture firm in Missoula, MT, she was drawn to remodel and adaptive reuse projects.
She earned a post-professional Master of Architecture degree, as well as certificates in historic preservation and sustainable design, from the University of Texas at Austin. She has used this training and her research interests at the compelling intersection of architecture, preservation, and sustainability throughout her career as a historic preservation professor. Leifeste has developed a wide range of courses while serving as an Assistant and now Associate Professor at Clemson University's Historic Preservation program in Charleston, SC. Her favorite course topics have included the history of building construction, graphic communication (measured drawing), adaptive reuse, Historic Structure Reports, and preserving modernism.
She believes in a preservation education pedagogy of engaged community learning- one that pairs students and their learning objectives with people stewarding 'real world' historic places. In research and through her teaching, she is interested in how we educate preservation practitioners, how place fosters group identity, and in defining how much and what kind of change can keep buildings useful for current needs without erasing essential touchstones of meaning for people who care about their historic places.