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Randall Mason: Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania

5:30pm, Knowlton Hall Auditorium

As part of the Knowlton School of Architecture (KSA) Lecture Series, historic preservationist Randall Mason, Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, will speak on his work on Wednesday, May 11 at 5:30 p.m. in the Knowlton Hall Auditorium on the campus of The Ohio State University.

Mason teaches historic preservation planning, urban history and cultural landscape studies at the University of Pennsylvania?s School of Design (PennDesign). His research interests include theory and methods of preservation planning, cultural policy, site management and the history of historic preservation.

Mason previously worked as Senior Project Specialist at the Getty Conservation Institute, researching economic and social issues relating to heritage conservation. His articles have been included in the Getty?s Economic and Heritage Conservation, Values and Heritage Conservation, and Assessing the Values of Cultural Heritage: and he is co-editor of Giving Preservation a History (2003).

Before joining the faculty at PennDesign, Mason served as Assistant Professor of Historic Preservation and Architecture, and Director of Historic Preservation at the University of Maryland (2000-2003), and as adjunct faculty in landscape architecture at Rhode Island School of Design.

He is a partner in the nonprofit research and consulting firm Minerva Partners, which develops projects to strengthen the connections between heritage conservation and social development. Mason holds a BA from Bucknell University: an MS from Pennsylvania State University: and PhD, MPhil from Columbia University.

For more information on Randall Mason, visit http://www.design.upenn.edu/new/hist/facultybio.php?fid=241.

This lecture is free and open to the public. It qualifies for AIA Continuing Education Credit: email KSA Alumni and Communications Coordinator Amy Carey at carey.189@osu.edu to preregister for continuing education credit.