2019 Historic Preservation Symposium | March 29

On Friday, March 29, the Department of Historic Preservation will hold its annual symposium, titled "Historic Preservation and Sustainability: Beyond the Greenest Building." ...

Local Students Participate in Design Spring Break

Historic Preservation Lecturer Travis Rose conducted a design-focused workshop for Lexington-area middle and high school students over their spring break....

2018 Historic Preservation Symposium Videos

To watch the lectures from this year's Historic Preservation Symposium, please visit the College of Design Facebook page....

2018 Historic Preservation Symposium

The 2018 Historic Preservation Symposium will be held Friday, March 30....

HP Spring 2018 Lecture Series

Make plans to attend the Historic Preservation Spring 2018 Lecture Series, with events on Feb. 19, March 5, March 26 and April 9 in the Community Room at the Louisville Free Public Library....

Preservation Chair Dan Vivian Interviewed on Confederate Statues

Confederate statues and monuments have made local and national headlines as the country decides how to respond to the memorialization of confederate soldiers....

Fencing in Appalachia

For 13 years now, students from the Department of Historic Preservation have attended the annual dry stone masonry workshop at Pine Mountain Settlement School in Eastern Kentucky....

Lynne Funk Lecture | Nov. 21

Lynne Funk, AIA, principal of LFA Architects, will share her insight into the stringent architectural review standards in New York City’s historic districts. Funk, who holds a bachelor’s degree in...

Monuments & Memorials Lecture | Oct. 4

Recent debates over Confederate memorials have raised powerful questions. This panel examines those debates and what they mean for the future of memorialization in the United States....

Historic Preservation Faculty Forum

Faculty from the Department of Historic Preservation will share presentations on their latest research projects, including Shrinking History: Politics, Preservation and National Monument Boundaries. ...

Professor Appler Publishes Book on Urban Archaeology

Historic Preservation Professor Douglas Appler has recently co-authored the book, “Urban Archaeology, Municipal Government and Local Planning.” ...

Ned Kaufman, Ph.D.

Dr. Ned Kaufman is principal of Kaufman Heritage Conservation and Adjunct Professor of Historic Preservation at Columbia University. He participated in the 2017 HP Hybrid Field School and agreed to sh...

Nation’s First Hybrid Historic Preservation Field School Abloom With Data on Gardenside

Students at the University of Kentucky are currently wrapping up some of the first research collected on a mid-century neighborhood as part of the nation's first hybrid field school in historic preser...

HP Symposium Earns KY Heritage Council Award

Congratulations go out to the Department of Historic Preservation in the College of Design...

New Fellowships Announced for 2017 Kentucky Field School

New Kentucky Field School Earns Orlando Ridout V Fieldwork Fellowship

Professor Doug Appler Featured on WUKY for HP Symposium

The Kentucky Field School