Ever wonder what makes something historic? Join us for a special summer meeting of the Society! Come learn how to help identify historically significant structures and objects. What makes things special and how to help care for and preserve them for future generations.
Five professionals from the fields of architecture, conservation, and historical preservation will offer a glimpse into how you can be an advocate for preserving Glendora's heritage.
Presentation Topics:
- What makes something historic?
- Why preservation is an art and a science.
- Conservation planning and the preservation tool-kit
- What a Preservation Plan tells us and why
- Stewardship of historic-cultural properties
Monday, July 25, 2022
Program speakers start at 6:30 pm
Refreshments will be served.
This event is FREE and open to the Public.
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About your guest speakers:
John Lesak is a licensed architect and Principal-in-Charge of the Los Angeles office of Page & Turnbull—a full-service architecture, design, planning, and preservation firm. He also serves as part-time faculty in the USC’s Heritage Conservation program. He is currently the South Pasadena Planning Commission Chair, as well as a Board Member of Preservation Action representing California and a Fellow in the Association for Preservation Technology International (APTI). John has been the South Pasadena Cultural Heritage Commissioner (2005-14) and Chair (2009, 10 & 14). For APTI, he was West Coast Chapter President (2003-9), Co-Founder & Chair of the Technical Committee on Sustainable Preservation (2004-6), and the 2009 Annual Conference Chair in Los Angeles. John also served as AIA/LA Historic Resources Committee Chair (2016-7). He’s worked on many cool historic properties, written some papers, and won a bunch of awards.
Jesús (Chuy) Barba Bonilla was born in Mexico and grew up in Zacatecas, a Spanish colonial mining city declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, which is where he became passionate about history and architecture. Jesús obtained his BA in architecture in 2012 from the Universidad del Valle de Mexico and moved to California in the same year. He is currently pursuing his Master’s degree in Heritage Conservation at the University of Southern California while working as an Architectural Designer in the firm of Page & Turnbull, he also serves as Director on the Docomomo US Board.
Donna Williams is the principal of her firm Williams Art Conservation, Inc., performing consulting services and hands-on treatment of sculpture and architectural materials for private and public organizations. She also works with preservation architects performing material characterization used to inform bid specifications for the cleaning and repair of historic building materials and treatment implementation. Donna Williams is a Professional Associate (PA) of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC). She is currently Chair Emeritus of the AIC Architecture Specialty Group. Ms. Williams has served as a reviewer for the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the City of Los Angeles Public Art Committee and has lectured on the conservation of sculpture and contemporary art in the United States, England and Taiwan.
Kaitlin Drisko serves as a volunteer on the Society’s Ad Hoc Contract Committee for the Rubel Castle Historic District Preservation Plan. With 30 years of experience in architectural design and historic preservation, Kaitlin has built a reputation for sympathetic architectural solutions developed in a collaborative team environment with owners, engineers and specialty professionals. Educated as an architect and engineer, she has worked in both disciplines prior to starting Drisko Studio in 2002 as a small innovative design firm that merges architectural principles with conservation practices. Drisko Studio’s collaborative approach works to guide seismic retrofit projects, additions to historic buildings and new construction in historic environments to meet historic preservation standards. She is passionate about enabling organizations to benefit from good stewardship of their historic and cultural properties.
Questions about this event? Please contact Craig Woods, (626) 755-1609 or email president@glendorahistoricalsociety.org
