Yo! Richard Neutra! A Modern House Conservation Panel, Tour and Demonstration

Lawrence N. Field DEC Center

4201 Henry Avenue
Philadelphia, PA
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The Center for the Preservation of Modernism at Thomas Jefferson University will host a panel, tour and demonstration of the Hassrick House as part of the 2022 Docomomo US National Symposium. The event will be comprised of two parts: 1) talks and panel discussion by modern conservation experts and 2) conservation workshop offering demonstrations of modern conservation techniques as they relate to the preservation of The Hassrick House, designed by Richard Neutra and completed in 1961.

The Hassrick House will serve as a case study for the preservation and conservation of mid-century modern residences. Discussion and demonstrations focus upon ways to conserve modern design, materials, and details, such as Pennsylvania Bethayres concrete block, large expanses of glass doors and windows, flat roofs, and cork flooring. Preservation experts will explain and demonstrate advanced digital techniques, including thermography, photogrammetry and LiDAR scanning.  

Panelists:

Kelly Sutherlin McLeod, FAIA, Kelly Sutherlin McLeod Architecture, Inc.

Angel Ayón, AIA, NCARB, NOMA, LEED AP, AyónStudio Architecture + Preservation, P.C.

Tara Ikenouye, NCARB, AIA, Senior Associate, WJE Boston

Registration:

$95
$20 student rate (must show enrollment for 2020-21 or 2021-22 academic year)

Max capacity 50 people.

Panelists

Angel Ayón, AIA, LEED AP, NCARB, NOMA

Angel Ayón is the Principal of AYON Studio Architecture • Preservation, P.C. (AYON Studio) in New York City, which provides integrated professional services in the fields of Architecture and Historic Preservation. He has more than twenty five years of experience working with historic buildings. Trained in his native Havana, Cuba, Washington, D.C., and New York City, his expertise ranges from building-envelope evaluation and repair to full-scale rehabilitation and adaptive reuse of historic properties. His experience with Modern architecture includes the rehabilitation and exterior enhancement of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, for which he was the project architect between 2004 and 2008 (prior to founding AYON Studio). In 2015, he was awarded the James Marston Fitch Mid-Career Fellowship to undertake research on interventions on Modern glazed enclosures. This research led to the publication of Reglazing Modernism - Intervention Strategies for 20th-Century Icons, published by Birkhäuser in 2019. The book was the recipient of the 2021 Lee Nelson Book Award bestowed by the Association for Preservation Technology International (APT) to "the most outstanding and influential book-length work on preservation technology." Mr. Ayón currently serves as Vice-President of Save Harlem Now! in NYC. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Historic Districts Council, the Historic Preservation Committee of The Municipal Art Society of New York (MAS), Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Preservation League of the NY State, and member of the Board of Directors of the James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation. He is also an active member of Columbia University Preservation Alumni, as well as the AIA, NCARB, nycoba/NOMA, USGBC, APTi, APT Northeast, US/ICOMOS, Docomomo US and Docomomo US/New York Tri-State. Mr. Ayón holds a professional degree as an Architect and a M.Sc. in Conservation and Rehabilitation of the Built Heritage from the Higher Polytechnic Institute “José Antonio Echeverría” in his native Havana, Cuba, and a Post-Graduate Certificate in Conservation of Historic Buildings and Archaeological Sites from Columbia University in New York.

Symposium Partner

Thomas Jefferson University Center for the Preservation of Modernism

Jefferson’s Center for the Preservation of Modernism and M.S. Historic Preservation support initiatives that foster the protection and conservation of modern buildings and sites, including: research; an archive for scholars and students; and lectures, symposia and workshops.

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