STUDY TRAVEL
370 Historic Preservation in Nantucket Lecture credits: 2 Prerequisite: 102 or 502 370-A August 4–17 NOTE: 370 IS NOT A DESIGN HISTORY ELECTIVE Cost: 2-Credit Tuition plus $1,530 Supplemental Fee, which includes housing and materials. Cost of travel, food, and other personal expenses are not included. Supplemental fee not refundable after June 28. No tuition refunds after June 28, 2018. Historic Preservation, an interdisciplinary field, is fundamental to contemporary interior design practice. Studying interiors from past eras can expand historical perspective, enrich understanding of the built environment and its evolution over time, and inform contemporary design practice. This course will cover the principles of historic preservation and how they relate to a variety of interior project types, including historic sites, residential and commercial renovations, and adaptive re-use. Nantucket itself is a beautiful island, isolated far off the coast of Massachusetts. It is a remarkable laboratory for this detailed examination. This two-week course will take place on the island of Nantucket and will introduce students to the special issues facing interior designers when working within historic buildings. Through readings, lectures, class discussions, guided tours and site visits, students will expand their knowledge of 18th- and 19th-Century American design, and learn about the theories and methods used to research, preserve and adapt historic buildings and their interiors and furnishings. The course includes hands-on instruction in timber framing to better acquaint students with the dominant method of construction on the island. By the end of their studies, students will have a sound understanding of the methods and Supplementals common to the many buildings that comprise New England’s rich legacy. The class will meet at varying schedules, Monday thru Friday for two weeks. All students participating in the program will be provided with housing. Single accommodations with shared baths include cooking facilities. Students are responsible for arranging transportation to and from Nantucket; a list of airline and ferry services will be provided. Students should plan to arrive in Nantucket on August 3 in order to be available for the first meeting on August 4th. The course ends on August 17th. Students should make plans to depart on August 18th. Participants are housed in a University of Florida-owned dormitory located a twenty-minute walk from the academic studio. Wireless DSL is also provided in the dormitories.
STUDY TRAVEL AUGUST 4–17
NANTUCKET IS PRESERVATION Located thirty miles off the coast of Cape Cod, Nantucket is at once an island, a county and a town. Inhabited for many centuries by Native Americans, Colonial settlers arrived in the mid-1600s. Nantucket still has seventeenth-century buildings and holds one of America’s outstanding inventories of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century architecture with more than 800 structures predating the American Civil War era. Islanders created one of the first historic districts in the United States (1955) and now the entire island has National Landmark status The cultural landscape of Nantucket Island, shaped over the centuries through farming and sheep grazing, contains rare and often fragile environments unique in North America with great historical, cultural and scientific significance. Nantucket is governed through an Open Town Meeting of its citizens who are actively committed to management of their natural, historical and cultural resources. Many community agencies and organizations such as the Planning Board, Historic District Commission, Nantucket Preservation Trust, Egan Institute of Maritime Studies, Nantucket Conservation Foundation, Nantucket Planning and Economic Development Commission, Nantucket Preservation Alliance, Nantucket Historical Association and the nation’s first Community Land Bank work to protect and conserve the island’s natural environment and historic architectural fabric. The trip will be led by NYSID instructor Warren Ashworth, an architect with more than 30 years professional experience, including extensive work with landmarks preservation commissions. He is editor-in-chief of Nineteenth Century, a scholarly journal of American design and preservation, sits on the national board of the Victorian Society in America, and is a member of the Society of Architectural Historians. He holds an MA degree in art history from Hunter College/CUNY, writes and researches on the subject of wood-framing, and buys and restores old houses.