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David N. Fixler, FAIA is a Principal at EYP specializing in the rehabilitation of twentieth-century buildings. His projects include the restoration of Alvar Aalto’s Baker House, and the renovation of the United Nations Headquarters. A frequent commentator on architectural history, preservation, and design, Fixler has published and spoken internationally and has helped to organize numerous conferences on a wide range of architecture and preservation topics. He is active in many national and global professional organizations, including presently serving as co-chair of the APT Technical Committee on Modern Heritage, preservation officer of the Society of Architectural Historians, and president of DOCOMOMO-US/New England.
David Lowenthal, emeritus professor of geography and honorary research fellow at University College London, is a gold medalist of the Royal Geographical, the Royal Scottish Geographical, and the American Geographical societies, a senior fellow of the British Academy, and honorary D. Litt. Memorial University of Newfoundland. In 2010 he was awarded the Forbes Lecture Prize by the International Institute of Conservation. He was previously secretary of the American Geographical Society, has taught at a score of universities, and has been a Fulbright, a Guggenheim, a Leverhulme, and a Landes Fellow. Among his books are West Indian Societies (1972), Geographies of the Mind (1975), Our Past Before Us: Why Do We Save It? (1981), The Past Is a Foreign Country (1985; 2d ed. forthcoming), Landscape Meanings and Values (1986), The Politics of the Past (1989), The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History (1996), George Perkins Marsh, Prophet of Conservation (2000), The Nature of Cultural Heritage and the Culture of Natural Heritage (2005), Islands (special issue, Geographical Review, 2007), and Passage du temps sur le paysage (2008).
Elizabeth Milroy, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1986, teaches the history of art and material culture in North America at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. Her recent publications include “‘For the like Uses, as the Moore-Fields’: The Politics of Penn’s Squares,” in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (2006) and “A Crowning Feature: The Centennial Exhibition and Philadelphia’s Horticultural Hall” in Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes (2006). Her essay, “Pro Bono Publico: Ecology, History [End Page 145] and the Creation of Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park System” is forthcoming in Nature’s Entrepot: Philadelphia’s Urban Sphere and its Environmental Thresholds, edited by Michael Chiarrappa and Brian Black (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011). She is currently completing a history of Philadelphia’s cultural landscapes.
Liz Ševčenko is founding director of the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience, a worldwide network of historic sites dedicated to remembering past struggles for justice and addressing their contemporary legacies. Before launching and heading the Coalition for eleven years, Ševčenko had more than ten years of experience developing public history projects designed to catalyze civic dialogue in New York and around the country. She has partnered with public artist Shimon Attie on projects in New York and Boston exploring the hidden histories of urban landscapes. As vice president for programs at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, she developed exhibits and educational activities that connect the dramatic stories of the neighborhood’s immigrants past and present. She also developed national and community initiatives to inspire civic dialogue on cultural identity, labor relations, housing, welfare, immigration, and other issues raised by these stories. She has been widely published in a variety of outlets including most recently, MUSEUM International, UNESCO’s quarterly magazine.
Francesco Siravo is an Italian architect specializing in town planning and historic preservation. He received his professional degree from the University of Rome, La Sapienza, and specialized in historic preservation at the College of Europe, Bruges, and Columbia University, New York. Since 1991 he has worked for the “Historic Cities Programme” (HCP) of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture with projects in various Islamic cities, including Cairo, Mostar, Samarkand, and Zanzibar. Before joining the HCP, he consulted for local municipalities as well as governmental and international organizations. His previous work includes participation in the preparation of conservation plans for Rome, Lucca, Urbino, and Anagni in Italy, and for Lamu in Kenya. He has written books, articles, and papers on various conservation and...
