Welcome, reader. This is the sixth in a series of musings about the state of the heritage conservation field in Canada and internationally. I have just returned from the annual meeting of the ICOMOS Theory and Philosophy Committee. The meeting was held in Baku, Azerbaijan, and the subject was ‘Heritage Under Pressure: Perspectives of Historic [...]
Read more →So I mentioned that we were going to Lunenburg in our last post. And we’ve gone and come back now about a week. It’s taken me a few days to recover from our marathon trip there and back and to reflect on the wonderful cultural landscape that Lunenburg represents. While there we experienced Lunenburg in [...]
Read more →Welcome, reader. This is the fifth in a series of bi-weekly musings about the state of the heritage conservation field in Canada and internationally. Our friends in the environmental conservation field are not without some of the same problems as plague the cultural resource conservation field. With the introduction of both environmental and cultural heritage [...]
Read more →We’ve been busy here at Willowbank over the past few weeks. We’ve been occupied with trips to Ottawa and Toronto and all sorts of year end projects coming due. And in just a few weeks, we are very excited to be heading to the east coast for an intensive immersion into the cultural landscape that [...]
Read more →Please welcome a new voice on the Willowbank blog…Niklas from our first year group. ~ Crystal Well hello there and welcome to my first ever blog posting on the Willowbank website! My name is Niklas Pleschke and I am currently in my first year of studies at the school. I am fairly new to this [...]
Read more →This week we went on a field trip to Buffalo, NY!! And it was absolutely fantastic!! It seems somewhat unreal that it has taken us this long to make our way across the border for a full-fledged field trip, considering its been right across from us for a full two years, and we’ve only fleetingly [...]
Read more →Welcome, reader. This is the fourth in a series of bi-weekly musings about the state of the heritage conservation field in Canada and internationally. This time: the photograph. Greg Hill, who has gone on to become the first curator of indigenous art at the National Gallery of Canada, wrote an exceptionally fine thesis as a [...]
Read more →We have a wide variety of instructors at Willowbank – it is the basis of the program. Not only does it allow us to choose from amongst the best for our instructors and tailor our program to the students; it allows us to make important connections and create a network within the heritage field. Over [...]
Read more →Welcome, reader. This is the third in a series of bi-weekly musings about the state of the heritage conservation field in Canada and internationally. A few days ago I presented the revised approach for the move and adaptive reuse of the Horticulture Building, a historic property within the Lansdowne Park redevelopment in Ottawa. The revised [...]
Read more →This week we had the opportunity to work with Craig Sims on an historic structures report for the Erland Lee Museum in Stoney Creek. Craig is an experienced heritage building consultant with an incredible amount of knowledge on windows in particular. It was an amazing experience to go through the museum and learn how to assess [...]
Read more →Welcome, reader. This is the second in a series of bi-weekly musings about the state of the heritage conservation field in Canada and internationally. I closed the first editorial by mentioning the relationship between ‘carpenter, architect, and planner’ as one-way of thinking about type 1, 2 and 3 personalities (feel free to substitute ‘gardener, landscape [...]
Read more →This week, we had a crash review in Glazing with John Wilcox of Vitreous Glassworks. You’ll remember we had a full week with him last year, learning the ins and outs of stained glass conservation, as well as how to make our own stained glass panels. This year, we had a similar experience, going over [...]
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