Father of the Skyscraper, Louis Sullivan, to be celebrated.The 150th anniversary of the birth of Louis Sullivan, the "father of the skyscraper" and one of the most influential and accomplished architects in American history, will be celebrated at a symposium of historic preservation experts to be held on Friday, October 27, 2006 at the Great Hall of The Cooper Union. The event will celebrate the history, technology and conservation of great terra cotta cot·ta n. pl. cot·tae or cot·tas A short surplice. [Medieval Latin, of Germanic origin.] structures that Sullivan popularized in America's late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Louis Sullivan Terra Cotta Symposium, co-sponsored by Wank Adams Slavin Associates LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol (WASA WASA Water And Sewer Authority WASA Water and Sewer Authority (Washington DC) WASA Washington Association of School Administrators WASA Welsh Amateur Swimming Association WASA Wisconsin Agri-Service Association ); the Association for Preservation Technology Northeast Chapter (APT NE); and the Cooper Union, will include a tour of the Bayard-Condict Building, Louis Sullivan's only New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. building, which WASA's historic preservation department restored in 2002; and a reception at the Woolworth Building, one of the city's earliest and most stunning terra cotta skyscrapers. "Understanding how to preserve and protect terra cotta structures is critical to conserving many of the world's most renowned and beautiful 19th and 20th century buildings," said Pamela Jerome, director of historic preservation at WASA. "The Louis Sullivan Terra Cotta Symposium will bring needed attention and appreciation to one of the most important materials in architectural history." Builders, engineers, architects, conservators, historians, students, supporting institutions and terra cotta enthusiasts will participate in a series of panels revolving around the technology and early manufacturing period of terra cotta in the U.S. starting in the 1850s; how Louis Sullivan and other architects played a key role in the evolution, development, and use of terra cotta throughout the 20th century; and the continuing evolution of conservation practice and techniques for the care and design of terra cotta today. Featured speakers will include Stephen Gottlieb, AIA AIA - Application Integration Architecture , WMA (Windows Media Audio) An audio compression method from Microsoft. Known originally as MSAudio, this proprietary format competes with the MP3 and AAC methods. WMA encodes rapidly and is known to be especially effective at low bit rates. and formerly with WASA; Norman R. Weiss, FAPT FAPT Family Assessment and Planning Team FAPT Fathers Are Parents Too FAPT Foreign Asset Protection Trust , Columbia University and ICR (Intelligent Character Recognition or Image Character Recognition) The machine recognition of hand-printed characters as well as machine printing that is difficult to recognize. , and formerly with WASA; Tim Samuelson, Cultural Historian for Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, Chicago; Susan Tunick, Friends of Terra Cottta, New York; Lawrence A. Fleischman chairman of the American Wing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Michael Y. Ahearn, Seaboard Weatherproofing & Restoration Co., Port Chester, NY; Gunny Harboe, AIA, Harboe Architects, PC., Chicago and; Mary Jablonski, Jablonski Berkowitz Conservation, New York. |
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