Nov 18, 2021
“It's really hard to preserve the community. Easier to preserve buildings.”
Our guest today is a writer and uses the power of the written word to raise awareness, drive change and create accountability. She often writes about preservation – most notably focusing on the African-American history of Philadelphia and...
Nov 4, 2021
“But if all you can see is this frozen façade, that's the period that you're choosing to keep the public appearance of the building as, which doesn't really create any meaningful dialogue between the old and the new.”
Facadism or facadism practices, as Clemency Gibbs refers to them, stand for “privileging of the...