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Beinecke-Reeves Distinguished
Professor
Director of College Preservation Programs.
School of Architecture
College of Design, Construction, and Planning
University of Florida.
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Education
Bachelor of Science in Architectural Engineering at
Lousiana State University
Masters of Architecture at University of Virginia
Post-graduate studies at the University of Texas and the Courthauld
Institute of the University of London.
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Through his career, Graham has continuously
promoted preservation and Architectural conservation education.
After establishing historic preservation program at the University
of Texas, Graham spent a decade as Resident Architect of the
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, where he was Overall Director
of the Departments of Architecture, Planning, Landscape Architecture,
Architectural Research and Archives. He established a department
of Materials Conservation that has a state-of the art laboratory
that is now one of the best in the country. He also established
student intern programs with the College of William and Mary
and with the University of Virginia, where he taught preservation
courses. Later, Graham became the first full-time Director
of the Historic Preservation Program at the University of
Virginia.
While he was Architect of the Capitol of
Texas and Executive Director of the State Preservation Board,
Graham developed a 20-year Master Plan for documentation,
research, restoration, fundraising, public education and a
student intern program with all the Texas universities, which
had schools of architecture. He received a special “Hero
of Texas Preservation” award from the San Antonio Conservation
Society for his work in Texas.
More recently, Graham was awarded a Distinguished
Fulbright Scholarship and took the opportunity to teach at
the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Ljubljana
in Slovenia, at the same time acting as advisor to Slovene
Ministry of Culture on historic preservation legislation.
The Council for the International Exchange of Scholars selected
Graham for a follow-up grant to establish a summer “Urban
Conservation Institute” located in the historic Adriatic
city of Koper (Capodistria) once the second city of the 15th
Century Venetian Empire. After working on the coast for two
years, Graham moved the project to Lubljana where he and students
are working on a European Union plan for five historic cities,
including Leon, Bologna, Dresden, and Lyon.
In his last position before coming to Florida,
Graham was the Director of the Graduate Program in Urban Conservation
at the School of Architecture and Planning at the Catholic
University of America in Washington, DC. Graham initiated
joint courses with the University of Maryland, Virginia Tech,
and the extablished a preservation lecture series at the Octagon
for the AIA and the National Building Museum. He is a member
of the advisory Board of the Pontifical Commission for Conservation
of the Culture of the Church at the Vatican, and was part
of the advisory committee for the restoration of St. Francis
Basilica in Assisi after the earthquake. As a consultant,
Graham has worked with the National Park Service, the Veterans
Administration, the Corps of Engineers, and other federal
and state agencies, as well as with Edward Larrabee Barnes,
I.M. Pei, Ben Thompson and Kevin Roche.
With his own firm, Roy Eugene Graham, FAIA
and Associates, he was responsible for urban conservation
strategies, including Annapolis, MD, Charlottesville and Richmond,
VA, and Lunenburg, NS, Canada, and Skofja Loka, Slovenia,
the latter two of which are World Heritage Sites. He won a
preservation award for the restoration of the Governor’s
Rooms at the Texas Capitol and a state design award in preservation
for the Lincoln-Tallman House in Wisconsin. Other awards have
come from the Houston AIA, the San Antonio Conservation Society,
and the National Capital Planning Commission.
Graham served as Vice President of the Association
for Preservation Technology, the Secretary of US/ICOMOS, Committee
on Historic Resources and Octagon Committee of the AIA. He
is currently the Vice Chair and Chair-elect of the Advisory
Board for the National Center for Preservation Technology
and Training, having been appointed by the Secretary of the
Interior in 1998. Graham is a Fellow of US/ICOMOS.
Online Publication
Architectural
Preservation through Contextualism
20th Century Heritage
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