AIA Philadelphia's Historic Preservation Committee is pleased to announce a forum on the design of additions and new construction in historic settings. As guided by the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties, "new work shall be differentiated from the old and will be compatible with the historic." While providing significant flexibility to architects, this subjective standard has proven challenging for government reviewing agencies to utilize consistently and the public to understand.

Join us at the Center for Architecture in the afternoon for a series of presentations (by KieranTimberlake, Venturi Scott Brown & Associates, and John Blatteau Associates) and a roundtable discussion of varying approaches to the balancing of compatibility and differentiation. The discussion will be moderated by Steven W. Semes, architect and author of the recently published The Future of the Past: A Conservation Ethic for Architecture, Urbanism, and Historic Preservation.

This program is sponsored by AIA Philadelphia, Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America and the Preservation Alliance of Greater Philadelphia

This program will be followed by "The Future of the Past" lecture and book signing feature Mr. Semes at The Athenaeum, 219 South 6th Street, Philadelphia. (Please go to events page to view listing of this program.)