We are proud to announce that Annie Schentag, partner and Lead Architectural Historian at kta, has received the 2023 H. Allen Brooks Travelling Fellowship!
This is a great honor for Annie and for kta preservation specialists, as it is an international competition where Annie is one of only two people in the world to receive this prestigious opportunity from the Society of Architectural Historians this year.
On a fully-funded itinerary of her own design, Annie will be traveling through five countries in Latin America for three months this summer: Panama, Colombia, Bolivia, Argentina, and Uruguay. Her itinerary is designed to examine the intersection of preservation practices and urban reinvention in a transnational context. She will explore examples of locally designed modern and contemporary architecture in balance with their colonial and Indigenous manifestations. Through her travels, Annie hopes to develop a deeper understanding of the power and privilege entrusted in the task of preserving histories for a variety of marginalized communities. This will certainly be of use to her continued work with kta in multiple upcoming projects.
“I am honored and thrilled to visit five countries never before visited on the Brooks Fellowship, which begins to adjust a canonically disproportionate emphasis on European examples that my students often encounter in their coursework,” said Schentag. “Now more than ever, historic preservation has a lot to learn from the ‘other’ America. I hope that traveling on this itinerary can be an education in all these intertwined fields—historic preservation, urban planning, and art history—mixed with a strong dose of humanity and humility.”
Annie is thrilled to be able to expand kta's understanding of the field of preservation at a global scale, and increase kta’s scope of communication to the SAH blog during her travels. For more on this, see the press release on SAH's site.