Boston City Hall. Photo by Liz Liz Waytkus, Docomomo-US

Co-organized by Historic Preservation Education Foundation and the Boston Architectural College, the conference program will include three tracks of presentations on advocacy challenges and preservation strategies, history and context and technical conservation issues and solutions for post-World War II resources, to take place on Thursday, March 20 and Friday, March 21, 2025.

The National Park Service’s Heritage Documentation Programs (HABS/HAER/HALS) and the Historic Preservation Education Foundation will host a “Documenting the Recent Past” workshop on Wednesday, March 19, 2025 using the BAC’s 1966 Brutalist building as a case study.

Docomomo US and Docomomo US/New England are organizing full and half day tours to visit preservation projects and recent past sites throughout the area throughout the week of the conference.

Topics

• rehabilitation and reuse strategies for recent past buildings and sites
   

• conservation issues, sustainability and solutions for post-World War II resources
   

• techniques for surveying recent past neighborhoods and commercial districts
   

• advocacy challenges and opportunities for the recent past
   

• historic trends and themes related to recent past buildings, sites, and landscapes
   

• significant postwar era sites of underserved communities
   

• new digital approaches to documenting and interpreting recent past sites
   

• Postmodernism, Brutalism, postwar period revivals, and questions of style