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Summer 2020
J. Hinchman
June 14-July 2, 2020
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Heritage Conservation
Praxis is an intensive 3 week summer internship designed for students
pursuing studies in Historic Preservation. The class is organized around project fieldwork
supplemented by lectures, demonstrations, exercises, and site visits
that will allow students to experience firsthand the design and
construction of vernacular buildings and the application of traditional
craft to preserve them. Through a partnership with Grand
Teton National Park, students will engage in the recording, survey, and
craft-related treatment of selected log structures under
the supervision of Penn, NPS, and guest faculty.
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For
Summer 2020, the course will be based in the intermountain West at
Grand Teton National Park, WY. Bar BC Dude Ranch (1912), the
oldest
extant dude ranch in America, will be the site of the field work for
the course. Bar BC Ranch displays a broad range of technical
and interpretive problems related to the ranch’s original design,
construction and use. Plans are currently underway to stabilize,
interpret, and reuse these structures by the NPS. The course will also
examine preservation issues related to the region's rich vernacular
landscape
and National Park heritage with visits to other sites in Grand Teton
and Yellowstone National Parks and Jackson Hole.
Three week shared accommodation in cabins will be provided. Meals will
be a communal event and prepared by a cook. Weekends (Saturday and
Sunday) are free and on your own. Cost for meals (breakfast, lunch and
dinner) will be approximately $300 (for 3 weeks) and travel to Jackson
Hole, WY is
each student’s responsibility. A departmental travel stipend will be available. Students are requested to bring laptops,
cameras, sleeping bags and all personal items.
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