The University of Mary Washington Center for Historic Preservation has awarded the 2012 Historic Preservation Book Prize to “Saving Wright: The Freeman House and The Preservation of Meaning, Materials, and Modernity” by Jeffrey M. Chusid. The book is “a comprehensive and compelling case study detailing the history and preservation of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Freeman House,” said Michael Spencer, jury chair and assistant professor and chair of historic preservation at UMW. The center awards the Historic Preservation Book Prize annually to a book that a jury deems has made the most significant contribution to the intellectual vitality of historic preservation in America. Chusid is an architect and an associate professor in the historic preservation planning program at Cornell University. His architectural and materials conservation projects have taken him around the world, including to China and Fiji, and he has presented numerous exhibitions in New York. “Saving Wright: … [Read more...]