Annual Preservation Symposium
Since 2000, the CHC has sponsored an annual symposium on historic preservation that attracts faculty, students, and historic preservation professionals from around Texas and beyond.
25th Annual Historic Preservation Symposium
CHC Symposium History
2023 Saving Social Spaces
Adam Shalleck, FAIA, The Shalleck Collaborative, San Francisco, CA
Patrick Sparks, Sparks Engineering, San Antonio, TX
Derek O’Hara, Elysian Park Planning, Los Angeles, CA
Mike Record, AIA, The Arkitex Studio, Bryan, TX
Eva Read Warden, AIA, The Arkitex Studio, Bryan, TX
David Preziosi, FAICP, Texas Historical Foundation, Dallas, TX
2022 Women in Preservation (Virtual)
Nancy T. McCoy, FAIA, FAPT, LEED AP, McCoy Collaborative, Dallas, TX
Sharon Park, FAIA, FAPT, Preservation Office, Smithsonian, Washington, DC
Constance Lai, FAIA, NCARB, Preservation Services Manager, Grunley, Washington DC
Taryn Williams, PE, SE Senior Project Manager, SGH, Washington DC (APT President)
Deborah Slaton, FAPT, Principal, Wiss Janney Elster, Chicago, IL
Carolyn Kiernat, AIA, Principal, Page and Turnball, San Francisco, CA
2021 Difficult Campus Heritage (Virtual)
Nick Shepard, Aarhus University, Denmark
Tara Innis, University of the West Indies
Louis Nelson, University of Virginia
Rhondda Thomas, Clemson University
Tara Dudley, University of Texas at Austin
Diana Loren and Patricia Capone, Harvard University
Jody Lynn Allen, College of William and Mary
Adam Rothman, Georgetown University
Rebecca Hankins, Texas A&M university
2020 Preservation in Practice
Barbara Campagna, FAIA, FAPT, Buffalo, NY
2019 Preservation in Texas: Contemporary and Future Challenges
David G. Woodcock, FAIA, FSA, FAPT, Texas A&M University
Perky Beisel, Stephen F. Austin State University
Samuel Collins, III, Convict Leasing and Labor Project
Catherine Gorman, City of Galveston
Dwane Jones, Galveston Historical Foundation
Julie McGilvray, University of New Mexico
Kate Singleton, Preservation Austin
David Bush, Preservation Houston
Doris Eichburg, Building Diagnostic, Inc. & APT Texas
Stanley Graves, Architexas
Nancy McCoy, McCoy Collaborative
Reginal Moore, Convict Leasing and Labor Project
Evan Thompson, Preservation Texas
2018 African American Heritage
Everett L. Fly, MLA, FASLA, RA, 2014 National Humanities Medalist
Donna D. Carter, FAIA, President, Carter Design Associates, Austin
Eureka Gilkey, Executive Director, Project Row Houses, Houston
Priya Jain, AIA, Texas A&M University
Assata Richards, PhD, Director of Sankofa Research Institute, Houston; Department of Sociology, University of Houston
Andrea R. Roberts, PhD, Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M University
Lynn Henson, MA, CPM, Planner Manager, City of Houston
Gwendolyn Webb-Hasan, PhD, Depts of Educational Administration and Human Resource Development & Teaching, Learning, and Culture, Texas A&M University; Board President, Brazos Valley African American Museum
2017 Heritage, Conservation, and Archeology
John Stubbs, Director of Preservation Studies Program and Christovich Senior Professor of Architectural Preservation Practice, Tulane University
Colleen Hanratty, Co-director of the Blue Creek Archaeological Project, and owner of Linda Vista Archaeology
Peter Gavette, Archaeologist with the U.S. National Park Service, Golden Gate National Recreation Area
Justin Parkoff, Project Manager at Texas A&M Conservation Research Laboratory
Shawn Evans, Principal at Atkin Olshin Schade Architects
2016 Campus Heritage
Sylvia Kendra, Smithsonian Facilities
David Woodcock, Texas A&M University, Heritage of TAML A Personal Perspective, 1962-2012
Lilia Gonzales, Texas A&M University, Heritage Buildings and Spaces: Informing Development and Implementation
Larry Irsik and Stan Graves, Evolving Presentation Approaches: Cases Studies from UT-Austin
Paul Sanders, Broaddus, Rice University: An Architectural Legacy
2015 The Alamo: Structure of History
Bruce Winders, Alamo Historian
Pam Rosser, Alamo Conservator
Pat Sparks, Engineer
Michelle Bushey, Chemistry Professor
Ivan Myjer, Building Conservator
Robert Warden, CHC Director
Unmil Karadkar, Alamo database
2014 Houston: Building Stories
Elizabeth Wiedower
Anna Mod
Stephen Fox
Gerald Moorhead
2013 Texas Preservation Programs and Research
Dwayne Jones, Galveston Historic Foundation
Matt Synatschk
David Preziosi
Julie Fulgham
David Woodcock – moderator
2012 Disaster, Hazard Recovery, and Prevention for Historic Structures
Donald Friedman, Old Structures
Randolph Langenbach, ConservationTech
Robert Z. Melnick, University of Oregon
David Preziosi, Mississippi Heritage Trust
Petr Justa, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic
Dwayne Jones, Galveston Historic Foundation
2011 Adaptive Reuse: Architecture as a Found Object
K.T. Ravindran, School of Architecture and Planning, New Delhi
Ryan Jones, Lake Flato Architects
Aaron Lubeck, Trinity Design Build.
Elisabeth Knibbe, Quinn Evans Architects
Ron Staley, Christman Company
Brand+Allen Architects, San Francisco, California
2010 Technology Preserves
Bernard Frischer, University of Virginia
Karen Hughes, Leica
Gonzalo Martinez, Autodesk
Robert Warden, Texas A&M University
Kevin Williams, Clear Edge3d
Katherine M. Arrington, Library of Congress
Vivian Paul & Mark Everett, Texas A&M University
2009 Building on Green: Preservation and Sustainability
Carl Elefante, FAIA, Quinn Evans Washington DC
2008 Preserving the Modern
Gunny Harboe, AIA, Harboe Architects, PC Chicago
Robert Silman, PE, Robert Silman Associates, New York
Robert Johnson, AIA, CRS Center, Texas A&M University
William Dupont, AIA, San Antonio Conservation Society Endowed Professor, UTSA College of Architecture
Donna Carter, AIA, Carter Design Associates, Austin
Nancy McCoy, AIA, Quimby-McCoy Architects, Dallas
2007 Conserving Texas WWII History
Held at the Base Chapel, Riverside Campus (WWII Bryan Army Air Base, Now RELLIS Campus]
William A. McWhorter, Texas Historical Commission’s Military Sites Program, Austin, Texas
Heather Goodson, Texas Department of Transportation and Military Sites
Cathy Lazarus, Friends of Camp Hearne
Michael Waters, PhD, Anthropology, Texas A&M University
Robert Warden, Richard Burt and others, Texas A&M University
Barry Ward, Battleship Texas Foundation
Bruce Ashcroft
2006 Preparation for Preservation Practice: A Comprehensive Perspective
Dr. Michael Tomlan
Professor & Director, Historic Preservation Planning Program, Cornell University
Sue Ann Pemberton-Haugh AIA
Assistant Professor, College of Architecture, University of Texas at San Antonio
Elizabeth I. Louden
Professor, College of Architecture, Texas Tech University
Anna Mod
Adjunct Professor, Prairie View A&M University & Historic Preservation Specialist, LFC, Inc.
Vincent Michael
Associate Professor, Chair, Historic Preservation Program, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Barry Moore FAIA, RA
Adjunct Associate Professor, Director for Historic Preservation and Adaptive Use, University of Houston
David G. Woodcock & Robert Warden
Center for Heritage Conservation Texas A&M University
Dr. Ted J. Ligibel
Director, Historic Preservation Program, Eastern Michigan University
2005 Investigation and Evaluation in Historic Preservation
Gregor Kalas, Carolyn Peterson, FAIA, Nerenda Gosain, Kent Diebolt (Vertical Access)
2004 Innovation Conservation: Technology in Practice
John Addison, Conservation Engineer Partner, Peter Stephen & Partners, Edinburgh, Scotland
Patrick Sparks, Structural Engineer, Sparks and Larosche, Pflugerville, Texas
Peter Lee, Structural Engineer, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, San Francisco, California
Ronald Staley, Vice President, Christman Company, Lansing, Michigan
Paul Byard, Architect, Attorney, Educator, Columbia University and Platt Byard Dovell White Architects,
New York, New York
2003 Culture, Landscape, and Buildings
John Wyer, Landscape Architect: Bowles and Wyer, London
2002 Recording Cultural Heritage: 25 Years of HABS at Texas A&M University and the Future of Documentation
Ronald Brunskill, PhD, Leicester University, England
Robert Warden, Photogrammetry and Laser Theodolite (Montezuma Castle, AZ)
Exhibition in the MSC Stark Gallery (Funded by HABS)
2001 Presentation and Conservation in Practice
Bruce Judd, FAIA Architectural Resources Group, San Francisco, Preservation and Planning
Michael Dixon, FAIA, The Durrant group, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Karl Stumpf, AIA, RTKL Washington, DC Green Preservation
Arthur Jones, AIA Bower Lewis Thrower Architects, Philadelphia, Present the Recent Past
Dinner at Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historical Park with Ray Bailey, FAIA as Speaker
2000 Careers in Presentation: The Present and the Future
Nancy McCoy, Jack Pyburn, Bill Barlow
Other Events
The CHC sponsors the “Heritage Matters Talks” lecture series and co-sponsors a number of other lectures and events throughout the year.