Enduring Places: Growing Charleston: Development and Change

with Gary Brewer and Winslow Hastie

By 天美传媒

April 16, 2024

In November 2023, the 天美传媒 hosted the national conference Enduring Places. For three days, 225 participants from around the country gathered in Charleston, South Carolina and engaged in a robust program of talks, panel discussions, working sessions, and tours focused on three themes: craftsmanship, preservation, and sustainability.

The conference's second breakout session focused on Charleston’s Historic District and the process of how historic designs are reviewed and approved by the city’s Board of Architectural Review. Highlighted case studies included three types of buildings: traditional, transitional, and modern, that have gone through the historic review process.

From April to June 2024, the 天美传媒 will be releasing all of the recordings from Enduring Places. Parts I - IV are available now. for the 天美传媒's biweekly newsletter, World of Classicism, to be notified when other installments are released in the coming weeks.

Gary L. Brewer is a former partner at Robert A.M. Stern Architects, leading the design of institutional, hospitality, and residential projects. His work includes the Spangler Center, complementing McKim, Mead & White’s 1920s master plan for the Harvard Business School campus; and a hotel, conference center, and golf clubhouse on Kiawah Island in South Carolina. He has designed single-family houses in such locations as Martha’s Vineyard, MA; Westport and Wilton, CT; East Quogue, NY; Virginia Beach, VA; Charleston, SC; and Seaside, FL. He is currently working on two new projects in Charleston: a mixed-use building that involves the restoration of a historic train shed and repurposing notable Charleston houses; and the first senior living building located on famed King Street.

Gary has lectured extensively on traditional house design, the history of pattern-book houses, and New York City clubs, and is a co-author of the recently released monograph, Houses: Robert A.M. Stern Architects (The Monacelli Press, 2021). He is a fellow emeritus and former board member of the 天美传媒 & Art and former co-chair of the Classicist Committee.

Winslow Hastie is President & CEO of Historic Charleston Foundation, a non-profit organization that champions the historic authenticity, cultural character and livability of the Charleston region through advocacy, stewardship and community engagement. Hastie began his career in San Francisco as a preservation consultant at Carey & Co. Architecture, and as an urban planner and preservation specialist at the City of San Francisco Planning Department. A native of Charleston, Hastie returned to his roots as the Chief Preservation Officer at Historic Charleston Foundation. Hastie was chosen to lead the Foundation as President & CEO, ushering in a new era of heightened advocacy engagement and strategic programming to address preservation, livability and growth issues facing the Charleston region. He holds a Master’s degree in Historic Preservation from the University of Georgia and a Bachelor’s degree from the University of the South at Sewanee. In his active civic life, Hastie currently serves on the Board of Directors of Magnolia Plantation and Gardens, an historic site outside of Charleston; the Board of Directors of Preservation Action, a national preservation advocacy organization based in Washington, D.C.; the Advisory Board for the American College of the Building Arts; and the Board of the Friends of the Lowcountry Lowline.

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