The Future of the Past: A Conservation Ethic for Architecture, Urbanism, and Historic Preservation

About Steven W. Semes

Steven W. Semes is Associate Professor at the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture and Academic Director of its Rome Studies Program. A practicing architect for over thirty years he has designed a wide variety of projects for preservation and new construction throughout the United States. He is also the author of The Architecture of the Classical Interior (Norton) and a contributor to The Elements of Classical Architecture (Norton). His essays and reviews have appeared in the National Trust Forum Journal Traditional Building Period Homes and American Arts Quarterly. He is a Fellow Emeritus of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America.