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  • Author Biographies

Daniel Bluestone is Professor of Architectural History and Director of the Historic Preservation Program at the University of Virginia's School of Architecture. He is author of Buildings, Landscapes, and Memory: Case Studies in Historic Preservation (Norton, 2011). Professor Bluestone's essay in this issue originated in his 2010-11 Community History Workshop, which focused on Richmond's Post-Industrial East End. The project was undertaken in collaboration with Professor Maurice Cox and graduate students at the University of Virginia. Research by Katie Orr, Laura McCoy, and Kristin Rourke underscored key issues related to adaptive reuse on Tobacco Row.

David G. De Long received his Master of Architecture degree from the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied with Louis I. Kahn, and his Ph.D. degree in Architectural History from Columbia University. He has chaired graduate programs in historic preservation at both universities, has been a visiting professor at the Middle East Technical University (Ankara, Turkey) and the University of Sydney, and is currently emeritus Professor of Architecture at Penn. He has held Fulbright and Guggenheim fellowships and was the inaugural James Marston Fitch Resident in Historic Preservation at the American Academy in Rome. His most recent book is Auldbrass: Frank Lloyd Wright's Southern Plantation (Rizzoli, 2011).

Gregory Donofrio is Assistant Professor of Architecture and Director of the Heritage Conservation and Preservation program at the University of Minnesota School of Architecture. His research explores the history and economics of historic preservation. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in historic preservation planning from Cornell University. Between 2000 and 2003 he worked at the New York State Historic Preservation Office reviewing New York City building restoration and rehabilitation projects for compliance with state and federal historic preservation laws. Currently he is working on a book about the history and preservation of food markets in the United States.

John Dixon Hunt is an emeritus Professor of the History and Theory of Landscape at the University of Pennsylvania. He edits both the international journal Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes, now in its thirty-second year, and the Penn series Studies in Landscape Architecture, in which over thirty titles have so far appeared. He is the author [End Page 219] of many books and articles, his most recent being A World of Gardens (Reaktion Books, 2012).

Nathaniel Rogers graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2011 with dual master's degrees in architecture and historic preservation, and was a recipient of the 2011 AIA Henry Adams Medal. His historic preservation thesis evaluated contemporary approaches in the design of additions to midcentury icons. He graduated from Harvard College with an undergraduate degree in the history of art and architecture and wrote his undergraduate thesis on Ralph Adams Cram and the social reform ideals of the American Gothic Revival. He is a designer at Beyer Blinder Belle, a preservation, planning, and contemporary design practice in New York City.

Nancy Rogo Trainer is a practicing architect and planner, and a principal of Philadelphia-based VSBA, LLC, the successor firm to Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates. Since joining the firm in 1987, she has provided planning and design services for academic and cultural institutions. Her work includes campus plans, museums, campus centers, and libraries— designs that help to build community by integrating social, strategic, and physical goals. Currently, she is also a member of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission.

Steven W. Semes is Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Notre Dame. From 2008 to 2011 he was Academic Director of the School's Rome Studies Program, and in 2010 received the Clem Labine Award from Traditional Building magazine. He is the author of The Future of the Past: A Conservation Ethic for Architecture, Urbanism, and Historic Preservation (2009) and The Architecture of the Classical Interior (2004), and was a contributor to The Elements of Classical Architecture (2001), all published by W.W. Norton & Co. His articles and essays have appeared in such publications as Traditional Building, Period Homes, American Arts Quarterly, and the National Trust Forum Journal. He is a member of the Editorial Committee of Change Over Time and also publishes a blog, "The...

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