Events Open to the Public

SAH Buffalo Seminar
Regency Ballroom, Hyatt Regency Buffalo
$95 / $60, onsite registration available

AIA/CES: 8LU

Buffalo began as a city of innovation, a place of experimentation and risk-taking, and today that legacy points us in new directions of growth. The SAH Buffalo Seminar considers historic preservation as a broad strategy that unites many players in urban revitalization, from community activists to nonprofit organizations, private developers, architects and planners, City Hall, and the State Historic Preservation Office. Moving beyond historic preservation as a purely academic or market-driven endeavor, participants in the seminar will consider preservation through the lenses of long-term urban, cultural, and economic sustainability.

8:15 am	Coffee
8:45 am	Introduction: Buffalo’s Legacy and Future
	Welcome and Overview of the Day
	Tom Yots, SAH Local Co-Chair, Preservation Buffalo Niagara
	Buffalo’s Planning Legacy
	Martin Wachadlo, Architectural Historian
	Historic Preservation and Urban Revitalization
	Robert G. Shibley, Dean, School of Architecture and Planning, University at Buffalo
	Orientation to the City
	Jennifer Walkowski, Architectural Historian
9:15 am	Historic Preservation and Urban Sustainability
	Olmsted Parks Conservancy: Preserving Our Urban Legacy
	Thomas Herrera-Mischler and Tony James, Olmsted Parks
	The Energy Side of Historic Preservation
	Bernice Radle, Program Coordinator at Buffalo Energy
	The Green Code
	Chris Hawley, City of Buffalo, and Jason Wilson, PBN
10:00 am	Q&A Period, Coffee Break
10:15 am	Historic Preservation and Economic Sustainability
	Economic Development and Historic Preservation Overview of Buffalo/WNY
	Jason Yots, President, Preservation Studios
	Overview of Residential and Commercial Programs
	Julian Adams, Community Liaison Coordinator / Certified Local Government Program / Investment Tax Credit Program Coordinator, State Historic Preservation Office
	Using Historic Tax Credits
	Jake Schneider, Architect/Developer at Schneider Design Architects, pc
	Architectural Heritage Tourism
	Ed Healy, Visit Buffalo Niagara (VBN)
	The Role of Preservation Funders
	Catherine Schweitzer, Baird Foundation
11:45 am	Q&A Period
12:00 pm	Lunch
12:30 pm	Historic Preservation and Cultural Sustainability
	Overview
	Terry Robinson, East Side Activist
	Neighborhood Issues
	Christopher Byrd, Broadway-Fillmore Alive:
	King Urban Life Center
	John Wingfelder, Architect
	The Buffalo Public Schools Project
	Paul McDonnell, Chair, Buffalo Preservation Board, Architect
1:15 pm	Q&A Period: What’s Next for Buffalo?  Caitlin Boyle, Architectural Historian
2-4:45 pm	Bus Tour of Buffalo

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Roundtable Discussion
11:45 a.m.–1:45 p.m., 101 A/H Buffalo Niagara Conference Center
$15, onsite registration available
AIA/CES: 2LU

Our current “thought leaders” from the Buffalo community, to include Catherine Schweitzer and Robert Shibley along with Paul Goldberger, will discuss policy and planning for the future of preservation. A brief presentation on current status and direction of Buffalo work will be used to set up a discussion among the roundtable participants and with the audience on the policy work and plan making we all have ahead of us.

11:45 – 11:50	Welcome and Panel Introductions	Robert Shibley
11:50 – 12:20	Preservation Planning as a Performing Art: An Outline for a Buffalo Preservation Plan	Catherine Schweitzer and Robert Shibley
The presentations will assess where we are in preservation planning in the City of Buffalo and what some of the next  most important steps might be to leverage  city assets in service of both the quality of life in the city and of cultural and heritage preservation as well as tourism.  Among other topics the plan outline will speak to inventory, protection, education, and capacity building as core elements of a successful plan.
12:20 –  12:30	Audience Questions
12:30 – 1:00	Roundtable Discussion Among the Panelists	Moderated by Robert Shibley with Paul Goldberger and Catherine Schweitzer
The panelists will offer an informal discussion on the current state of national and local preservation.  They will also discuss the work ahead for Buffalo in both architectural and neighborhood preservation and how it fits in the larger context of national and international precedents, the current economy, and the quality of life in our communities?
1:00 – 1:30	Panel and Audience Discussion	Moderated by Robert Shibley
The panel acknowledges that academics, policy makers, professionals, business interests, and citizens in non-profit organizations are some of the most important players in the performance of architectural and neighborhood preservation.  In an open discussion between the panelists and audience the panel will explore with the audience how to advance the state of the art of historic preservation.
1:40 –  1:45	Concluding thoughts by the panelists	Paul Goldberger  Catherine Schweitzer Robert Shibley

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8:20–10:00 p.m.  Doors open at 7:20
Asbury Hall, 341 Delaware Ave 
$10, onsite registration available
AIA/CES: 2LU

PechaKucha Night was devised by Klein Dytham architecture (Tokyo) in February 2003 as an event for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public. It has turned into a massive celebration, with events happening in hundreds of cities around the world, inspiring creatives worldwide. Drawing its name from the Japanese term for the sound of “chitchat,” it rests on a presentation format that is based on a simple idea: 20 images x 20 seconds. It’s a format that makes presentations concise, and keeps things moving at a rapid pace. Join us as four architects from the Buffalo design community and four SAH conference attendees present new work at this fast-paced event.

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SAH Closing Evening 
6:30–8:30, Greatbatch Pavilion, Darwin Martin House, Buffalo, NY
$25, onsite registration available
AIA/CES: 2LU

On the final evening of the SAH Conference, please join us at the Darwin Martin House for an event hosted by the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture to mark the recent joint acquisition of the Frank Lloyd Wright Archive by Columbia University’s Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library and New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Carole Ann Fabian, Director of Avery Library, and Barry Bergdoll, the Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at MoMA, will discuss the institutional opportunities provided by this unique acquisition. The archive includes over 23,000 architectural drawings, 44,000 historical photographs, large-scale presentation models, manuscripts, and extensive correspondence, among other documents. 

The evening will also include a preview of research on Wright initiated by the Buell Center, using the Darwin Martin House as a case study. Wright’s place in the canon of American architecture has been secured through decades of critical examination and rigorous scholarship. Buell Center Director Reinhold Martin and Columbia PhD Candidate Leslie Klein will explain how the Buell project builds on this work in relationship to the archive.

A question and answer session will follow the presentations. Wine, beer, and light hors d’oeuvres will be served. More information about the acquisition can be found on the Columbia University Libraries website as well as in coverage by the New York Times. 

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