Preserving the Recent Past 4

Celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of the groundbreaking Preserving the Recent Past conference series, PRP4 will provide a new forum to share the latest strategies for identifying, protecting, and conserving significant structures and sites from the recent past.

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.
 

The Boston Architectural College, photographed by George Zimberg, 320 Newbury Street, 1966. Credit: Archives of The Boston Architectural College.