Calling All Explorers! Registration Now Open For our Continuing Education Course
We are beginning the first of two fall semester CPE courses, taught through the Allegheny Intermediate Unit (AIU) this month. “Pittsburgh Heritage I,” provides participants with the opportunity to explore Pittsburgh’s heritage through the lens of architecture. Participants are surveying local and regional history, cultural heritage, historic preservation, architecture, and more.
Our next course, “Exploring Your Neighborhood and City,” provides first-hand knowledge of the historical and architectural development of Pittsburgh, a city of 90 neighborhoods. The course uses the immediate community as a classroom for teaching social studies, art, and English, as well as other subjects––and provides teachers with the skills required to use the community as a learning resource in their own classroom.
Remote and self-guided tours, videos, articles, and discussions will provide participants with diverse experiences and increased knowledge so they can enrich student learning.
If you or someone you know is interested in joining this exciting learning opportunity, it’s not too late! Registration for our second course –– “Exploring Your Neighborhood and City” (3 CPE credits) –– is open now.
Click HERE to learn more and to register. For registration and credit questions, contact Linda Muller, CPE Program Specialist at the AIU. For course content questions, contact Sarah Greenwald, PHLF’s co-director of education.
We look forward to exploring our region with you this Fall!
Lecture: Abandoned America
The Ruins of Western Pennsylvania
Matthew Christopher
Author and photographer
Tuesday, October 13
6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Fee: $5
This lecture will be held via ZOOM conference. Click here to get your ticket and RSVP.
Author and photographer Matthew Christopher, presents a journey through some of western Pennsylvania's most fascinating ruins— from a haunting abandoned prison to the remains of the neighborhood of Lincoln Way and beyond. Join us as we explore the fascinating stories of how these places were left behind and separate fact from fiction when it comes to their past.
About the presenter: Matthew Christopher has had an interest in abandoned sites since he was a child, but started documenting them a decade ago while researching the decline of the state hospital system. His two books, Abandoned America: Dismantling the Dream, and Abandoned America: The Age of Consequences, and his website, also titled Abandoned America, have chronicled the stories of modern ruins across the United States and gained international attention. He has recently expanded his scope to document abandoned locations across the globe.
Lecture: Demolition of the Largent House
A Case Study in Preservation, development, and City Planning
Thursday, Oct. 22
Matthew Hyland
Senior Architectural Historian
TRC Companies
6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Fee: $5
This lecture will be held via ZOOM conference. Click here to get your ticket and RSVP.
When a San Francisco developer demolished one of the few remaining examples of Richard Neutra’s domestic architecture in 2018, shock waves rumbled through the city’s preservation community. The developer’s illegal action, the demolition occurred without a permit, shook fundamental assumptions held regarding permitting, integrity, significance, and the local planning process.
Calls for punishment of the developer ranged from large fines to rebuilding the house as it was in 1935. This presentation offers this illegal demolition as a case study of historic preservation in the early twenty-first century.
About the presenter: Matthew Hyland is an architectural historian and an educator. Over the last 18 years, he has worked on a variety of historic preservation projects including large surveys and published articles on preservation in Florida, focusing on New Deal housing in Key West. He is also working on an architectural biography of U.S. President James Monroe.