University of Richmond Program to Address Preserving Historic Campuses

February 3, 2004

The University of Richmond often is described as one of the most beautiful and historic campuses in the nation.

In a program Feb. 25, Allan Greenberg, a prominent architect, and John Hoogakker, University of Richmond's associate vice president for facilities, will discuss "Preserving and Extending the Historic Campus: Do We Know the Right Questions?" Richmond's campus will be a focus of their discussion, which begins at 7:30 p.m. in Jepson Hall 118. The program is free and open to the public.

Greenberg is president of Allan Greenberg, Architect LLC in Washington, D.C.; Greenwich, Conn.; and New York. He has taught at Yale's schools of architecture and law, the University of Pennsylvania and the Department of Historic Preservation at Columbia University. He is the author of "George Washington: Architect," "Allan Greenberg, Selected Works" and "Monograph of the Work of McKim, Mead and White, 1879-1915."

Hoogakker has guided preservation work on the Richmond campus for many years and has overseen construction of new campus buildings and expansions designed to complement historic structures.

The program is the second of three lectures in the 2004 Urban Practice and Policy Forum, titled "Historic Preservation and Urban Sustainability: A Future for the Past." It is sponsored by the Richmond Quest, which encourages extended campus discussions of a single question.