Featured Course: Documentation Workshop (HIST207)
Proper field documentation is critical to many aspects of historic preservation, including making a case for significance, assessing condition, and recording pre- and post-treatment.
Join Bucks County Community College's award-winning Historic Preservation program for HIST207: Documentation Workshop, beginning the week of Februay 6th. Students will discuss and critically evaluate the three primary modes of building documentation—photography, drawing, and writing—and apply each technique to existing structures. Learn the relevant professional standards for building documentation, such as those established by HABS and the NPS, gain fluency with terminology and standard ways of representing buildings in architectural photography and drafting, and develop a framework for decision-making when attempting to document a building under time and budget constraints.
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The course is taught by Preston Hull, MSHP, of Building Conservation Associates, Inc. in Philadelphia.
BCCC is open admission: everyone is welcome to take our courses. Register Here!
Though most of our historic preservation students already have degrees, anyone with a passion for preservation and history is welcome!
The course may be taken “audit” or for a grade; courses successfully completed for a grade can be applied to our occupational Historic Preservation Certificate, designed to enable students to “do” the work of preservation in their communities anywhere in the country.
The Bucks HP program is a Shared program for community colleges: everyone in Pennsylvania takes our courses for in-county or non-sponsored tuition rates (based on location).