Woodcock named chairman of
AIA historic resources committee

David Woodcock, professor of architecture at Texas A&M’s College of Architecture, has been named chairman of the American Institute of Architects’ Committee on Historic Resources for 2009.

Woodcock has served on the advisory group of the committee, the AIA’s oldest, for the past four years.

Under Woodcock’s leadership, the committee will be hosting a one-day workshop on sustainability and preservation at the AIA’s national convention in San Francisco, as well as a two-day symposium, “Capturing the Past for Future Use: Integrating Documentation with Repair, Design and Construction Practice in Historic Building Rehabilitation,” at the Association for Preservation Technology International conference in Los Angeles in November.

In collaboration with the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, the committee is hosting a competition in spring 2009 to design an expansion of the Salk Institute, designed by Louis I. Kahn in 1959.

- January 21, 2009 -