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Historic preservation is wide-ranging, spanning the public, private and nonprofit sectors. Its essential nature is multidisciplinary, requiring cooperation across many fields, architecture, the humanities, social sciences, the building trades, law, economics and art history.

Within this environment, the historic preservationist is chartered to care for material culture represented by landscapes and monuments, as well as architecture in both its high styles and vernacular forms. To be effective, a historic preservationist must be able to work within a broad framework. The foundation of this effort is a clear understanding of the project area's history. Knowledge of history, however, must be supported by an understanding of contributing disciplines and, importantly, tempered by sensitivity to the social needs of the local community, which owns the material remnants and memories of that history...read more

Historic Preservation News

• Preservation Alumnus, Zasha Guzman Torres, Gives Historic Monument New Life

  Preservation Alumnus, Zasha Guzman Torres, gives a Harriet Tubman Monument new life as part of New York City's Monuments Conservation Program.  Work on the project was recently featured in the New York Times.

• Collaborative Faculty/Student Urban Design Work Exhibited in Brooklyn

  The work of the Maryland Urban Research Studio will be exhibited in Brooklyn, NY, April 11–May 9, 2009. The exhibition will feature Ground Work/s, a project created by the studio in 2008.

• Dennis Jankiewicz Receives 2009 Distinguished Alumni Award

  Dennis Jankiewicz, B.Arch '73, has been awarded the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation's 2009 Distinguished Alumni Award.

• Interdisciplinary Student Team Top 10 in National Urban Design Competition

  A team of five graduate students from the Planning, Architecture and Real Estate Development programs shares the winner's circle with MIT, Harvard and Columbia at the HINES Urban Design Competition.