{"id":1595,"date":"2011-12-09T12:10:46","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T16:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/?p=1595"},"modified":"2011-12-09T12:10:46","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T16:10:46","slug":"alumnus-max-yeston-08-in-his-own-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/?p=1595","title":{"rendered":"Alumnus Max Yeston &#8217;08 in his own words.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_1600\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1600\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/files\/2011\/12\/P10300562.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/files\/2011\/12\/P10300562-300x280.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"P1030056\" width=\"300\" height=\"280\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1600\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1600\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Max<\/figcaption><\/figure>I am currently a first-year graduate student at Columbia University\u2019s Historic Preservation Program.  The curriculum uses New York City as a laboratory for exploring a wide array of issues pertaining to the preservation of the built environment, such as research and documentation, city planning, structures and materials, architectural history and theory.  I have already undertaken such projects as surveying and documenting the Dula family mausoleum at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, visiting and and writing a presentation on the Pieter Wyckoff House in Brooklyn (the oldest surviving Dutch house in New York State), and researching a loft building at 450-460 Park Avenue South and a rowhouse at 8 East 36th Street as part of a study area in Murray Hill.  Additionally, I travelled to Buffalo to attend the National Trust for Historic Preservation\u2019s annual conference, where I sat in on lectures regarding land banks and neighborhood conservation districts, and got to take tours of Buffalo\u2019s architectural landmarks including Louis Sullivan\u2019s Guaranty Building (1896) and Minoru Yamasaki\u2019s M&#038;T Bank (1967).  Outside of school, I attended a committee meeting for Landmark West, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving Manhattan\u2019s Upper West Side, and read personal testimony at a public hearing at the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in support of a proposed historic district.  In Columbia\u2019s program, I am learning, along with my colleagues, about how to assess a building or neighborhood\u2019s significance as well as how the broad scope of preservation can be economically as well as culturally beneficial to society in the long term.  I hope to continue focusing on neighborhood planning and community revitalization, and am pursuing a dual degree with Urban Planning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently a first-year graduate student at Columbia University\u2019s Historic Preservation Program. The curriculum uses New York City as a laboratory for exploring a wide array of issues pertaining to the preservation of the built environment, such as research and documentation, city planning, structures and materials, architectural history and theory. I have already undertaken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1595"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1605,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions\/1605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}