These two portions of the 2-day workshop at Taliesin will be about the National Historic Tax Credit Program and the Wisconsin Historic Tax Credit Program. These representatives explain their experience at working with building owners and neighborhood groups, an update on the current situation, and a look into the future of the most threatened and vulnerable places.
Learning Objective 1:聽Learn about the National Historic Tax Credit program and the ways it has saved nationwide sacred places.
Learning Objective 2:聽Learn about the Wisconsin Historic Tax Credit program and the ways it has saved statewide sacred places.
Learning Objective 3:聽Understand when the HTC program can be used and when it can鈥檛 be used.
Learning Objective 4:聽See case study examples of the program in action both statewide and nationally.
Learning Objective 5:聽Understand strategies to contact local, state, and federal legislators to retain the program
These two portions of the 2-day workshop at Taliesin will be both a deep dive into case study examples of the value and impact of saving sacred places as opposed to demolishing as well as focusing on the wider impact in small towns around Wisconsin of saving their unique and beautiful landmark buildings.
Learning Objective 1: Understand the proforma based reuse of a sacred place. Learning Objective 2: Review new, creative, and profitable programs for existing buildings. Learning Objective 3: Connect with architects, contractors, developers, and funders of existing building projects. Learning Objective 4: Become more familiar with downtown development directors and the challenges ahead
These two portions of the 2-day workshop at Taliesin will be both a deep dive into case study examples of the value and impact of saving sacred places as opposed to demolishing as well as focusing on the wider impact in small towns around Wisconsin of saving their unique and beautiful landmark buildings.
Learning Objective 1:聽Look behind the curtain at project costs.
Learning Objective 2:聽Understand the fundamentally unique costs and contractors needed to succeed with a building reuse project.
Learning Objective 3:聽Make contacts and network with professionals who would be helpful on your next existing building project.
Learning Objective 4:聽See the numbers behind some very familiar building reuse projects in Wisconsin.
This final portion of the 2-day workshop at Taliesin will be an exploration and discussion about the funding challenges of saving Sacred Places in Wisconsin. This final session will be an opportunity to take advantage of all these experts who have come together in this World Heritage location of Frank Lloyd Wright鈥檚 Taliesin to talk about a comprehensive approach to saving sacred places
Learning Objective 1:聽Receive practical information about building construction, preservation, and funding.
Learning Objective 2:聽Find out how not-for-profits can use Historic Tax Credits.
Learning Objective 3:聽Network with preservationists from around the state, the country, and the world.
Learning Objective 4:聽Meet university architecture and preservation students 鈥� the future of the preservation movement.
Saving Wisconsin Sacred Places: Lunch Presentations – Preservation Case Studies
These two portions of the 2-day workshop at Taliesin will be about experiences through virtual production and exploration of extended reality and immersive technology through the XR Box.
鈥楶lanners are dreamers鈥�: UW-Milwaukee launches equity center for urban planning
In a piece by Wisconsin Public Radio, Dr. Kirk Harris, a certified municipal planner and UW-Milwaukee urban planning professor, identifies segregation as the root cause of many urban challenges. Historically, planners contributed to segregation by upholding racist zoning and housing policies, which negatively impact health, education, and economic outcomes.
To combat this, Harris is launching the UW-Milwaukee Center for Equity Practice and Planning Justice, focusing on housing, zoning reform and equitable resource distribution in one of America鈥檚 most segregated cities. The center will collaborate with stakeholders to dismantle discriminatory planning practices and expand opportunities for disadvantaged communities, driven by hope and a commitment to transformative urban change.
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Live-Work-Play-Retire: Redefining America鈥檚 Malls
The Innovative Cities Lecture Series
鈥淟ive-Work-Play-Retire: Redefining America鈥檚 Malls鈥� presentation by Danny Martin, Partner at SAS Architects & Planners, and Jamie Timoteo, Partner with Plante Moran Living Forward.
Lecture Summary
Over the last couple of decades, there has been a paradigm shift in how consumers purchase products. The shift to online consumerism and away from large-scale malls has created a profound challenge throughout the country and an exciting opportunity for reimagining malls as neighborhoods and destinations.
Learn how including Senior Living Communities (SLC) within the development can provide the potential to activate the mall during all-hours of the week, help to bring outside visitors and new community activities, and integrate Senior Living environments into the surrounding community.
Biographies
Danny Martin is a partner at SAS Architects & Planners in Northbrook, Illinois where he focuses on the architectural design and development of Senior Living Life Plan Communities. For over 10 years, Danny has designed Senior Living communities, from large scale master planning and repositioning projects of Life Plan Communities to small-scale additions and renovations. He has been the Architect of Record for the design and construction of over $300 million of senior living architectural work within the Senior Living Continuum of Care. Danny earned a Bachelor of Science in Architectural Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as well as a Master of Architecture and a Master of Urban Planning at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Jamie Timoteo is a partner with Plante Moran Living Forward, where he oversees the firm鈥檚 senior living development planning and financing team. He brings more than 14 years of consulting experience in the senior living and care industry to every client engagement, providing data-driven advice to senior living communities as they plan for the future. Jamie helps providers look beyond the numbers and draw conclusions to make the best decisions that support future growth. He plays an integral role in the strategic planning and repositioning process, assisting clients through predevelopment to confirm projects are right-sized, financially feasible, and in line with market need and future resident preferences. He has overseen over $700 million in bond offerings and financial feasibility studies. For projects that move forward, Jamie sits on the client鈥檚 side of the table, helping oversee the entire development team, including the architects and construction managers, to ensure clients鈥� projects meet their financial expectations and overall mission. His insights drive a more operationally efficient building while also delivering an attractive product for residents. Jamie earned a Bachelor of Science in finance from Miami University and a Master of Business Administration from Franklin University.
AICP-CM credits will be awarded. AICP CM Credit聽
Lindsey Krug awarded 2024 Rotch Traveling Scholarship
Assistant Professor Lindsey Krug has been awarded the 2024 Rotch Traveling Scholarship. This honor is the oldest scholarship of its kind in the U.S., awarded annually through a rigorous two-stage design competition organized by the Boston Society of Architects, a chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA).
Each year, one Rotch Scholar is selected to receive a $40,000 award for up to six months of international travel, joining a legacy that includes prominent architects like Henry Bacon, Ralph Walker, Wallace Harrison, Louis Skidmore, Edward D. Stone, Gordon Bunshaft, Victor Lundy, and many others.
This year鈥檚 competition theme, 鈥淧ardon Our Appearance,鈥� challenged participants to explore the role of maintenance and care in shaping the built environment. In the first round, which lasted three days, entrants submitted designs anonymously for review. Krug鈥檚 project, 鈥淣ew Corner on the Block,鈥� was selected as one of four finalists. She then participated in the second round鈥攁 10-day design challenge鈥攃ulminating in a presentation of her final proposal, 鈥淢onumental Maintenance: an Archipelago of Care.鈥�
The jury ultimately selected Krug鈥檚 proposal as the winning entry for 2024.
Krug鈥檚 project addresses maintenance and care as foundational yet often overlooked elements of architecture. Her winning proposal envisions a 鈥渕aintenance district鈥� for Boston, where the often-invisible work of public upkeep is honored through a series of monuments and public spaces. Her design reclaims and reimagines Boston鈥檚 Public Works site as a place of education and engagement, transforming maintenance into a visible and celebrated aspect of urban life that plays a central role in sustaining and nurturing the built environment.
With the scholarship funds, Krug plans to travel during the coming year, exploring the ways privacy has been architecturally constructed in different cultural and climatic contexts, and throughout history, from first societies to contemporary metropolises. Building on her ongoing analysis of the social and cultural impacts of architecture on the bodies that occupy built space, Krug鈥檚 international research travel will bring new insights to her work and teaching.
For more details on the Rotch Traveling Scholarship, visit and see the official announcement on the .
AI and Computing for Local Food Systems
The Innovative Cities Lecture Series
鈥淎I and Computing for Local Food Systems鈥� presentation by Dr. Alfonso Morales, Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor and Chair of the Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Lecture Summary
This lecture reviews topics that broadly deal with the use of computing (and sensing) solutions to address the mounting challenges we face in securing our food systems. The lecture focuses on three dimensions, first, precision agriculture with attention to land management and real-time sensing for efficient crop watering, fertilization and pest control, etc. The second dimension covered will be intelligent food distribution systems: The foci here is farmers markets, local sourcing promotion, food access and security. Third, we focus on inter-silo connections, which includes connections to public health and ecological / ecosystems management and services of farm production practices.
Biographies
Alfonso Morales is a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor and Chair of the Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Originally from New Mexico, Alfonso鈥檚 family farmed and ranched for more than 100 years. His research includes social science theory and methods, food systems, public marketplaces, and street vendors. His applied research supports non-profit organizations, and he co-created the farm2facts.org toolkit for farmers market managers.
He has been part of more than $50m of research grant activity, and his work is supported by the ICICLE NSF AI institute, USDA, NIH, Ford, and other agencies. On campus, he has worked with the School of Medicine, the College of Ag and Life Sciences, the School of Human Ecology, the Nelson Institute and the College of Letters and Science. Dr. Morales earned a PhD in Sociology from Northwestern University, a Master of Science in Sociology from the University of Chicago, a Master of Science in Political Economy from the University of Texas at Dallas, and a bachelor鈥檚 degree in economics and sociology from New Mexico State University.
AICP-CM credits will be awarded. AICP CM Credit聽#9296700
