Julian Phillips ’20 M.Arch, Architecture, Living Color, laser cut/ etched colored acrylic, 2016
Whether restoring a barn on Thomas Edisonβs New Jersey property or working to preserve the Virginia home of Maggie Walker, the first Black woman in the United States to establish a bank, historical architect Julian Phillips touches a lot of history, literally. Phillips, who works at the Historic Architecture Conservation and Engineering Center (HACE), a division of the National Park Service, credits ΊμΑμ½νΉΟ±¨ for providing the creative foundation for his unique career in historic preservation.
We want these buildings to last as artifacts for future generationsβββitβs our history, the told/untold. What weβre doing now is telling a more complete story.Julian Phillips ’20 M.Arch
One of the first courses he took at ΊμΑμ½νΉΟ±¨ was in early American furnitureβββan introduction to furniture design and also to historians, museum curators, and craftsmen. It directly helped him in his role at HACE. βHACE is extremely multidisciplinary, exactly like ΊμΑμ½νΉΟ±¨,β he says. βConservators, architects, landscape architects, historiansβββwe all work together. I learned the value of that at ΊμΑμ½νΉΟ±¨, how to not only appreciate the differences around me but also find similarities. All those people were in the same space and had done different things, and we came together and learned from one another.β
Julian on lift conducting an exterior masonry exploration at Arlington Street Church, Boston, 2021
ΊμΑμ½νΉΟ±¨’s Community Build program provides graduate students with hands-on learning as they create a functional structure for community use. Pictured above: βCo-pavilionβ, painted steel, wood assembly, Peabody Essex Museum, 2019
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