Jorge Otero-Pailos, director of GSAPP’s Historic Preservation Program, speaks with Frank Matero in advance of his Spring 2017 lecture at the school. Frank Matero is currently chair of the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation and director of the Architectural Conservation Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania. They discuss conservation’s relationship to climate change and Matero’s remarkable work conserving international monuments and architecture.
“Climate change has delivered an opportunity to rethink some of our paradigms about how we approach the materiality of historic buildings.” – Frank Matero
