Ashley Wilson
Ashley Wilson , FAIA, ASID

Chief Architect for Historic Sites | National Trust for Historic Preservation

Ashley Wilson, FAIA, ASID, is an architect with thirty years of experience in historic preservation, specializing in modernizing and stewarding significant historic buildings to make them relevant within the modern environment. For the past nine years she has served as the Graham Gund Architect of the National Trust for Historic Preservation where, as chief architect, she provided broad oversight responsibilities related to the conservation and preservation of the architecture and landscapes of the Trust’s historic sites.  Prior to her work at the National Trust, she was a tenured professor at the College of Charleston Graduate Program for Historic Preservation of Clemson University in Charleston, South Carolina, where she was a founder and interim director of the university’s Master of Science in Historic Preservation Program. Her previous experience in architecture and preservation practice, includes the office of the Architect for Thomas Jefferson’s Academical Village at the University of Virginia and Oehrlein & Associates Architects in Washington, D.C  

Wilson earned a Bachelor of Science in Architecture degree from the University of Virginia and a Master in Architecture degree from the University of Notre Dame. She served as the 2015 Chair of the Historic Resources Committee of the AIA, serves on the Senate Curatorial Board of the United States Senate, the Old Georgetown Board and the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation’s Preservation Committee. 

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The Farnsworth House

Visionary Bauhaus architect Mies van der Rohe met Dr. Edith Farnsworth in 1945, at a dinner party in Chicago. She had just purchased a tract of land on the Fox River west of Chicago and hoped he would design a small weekend retreat. He agreed—and the rest, as they say, is history. Completed in 1951, Farnsworth House was immediately hailed as an icon, and perhaps the fullest expression of Mies’ Modernist ideals. Designed of glass and steel, the raised pavilion is nestled into the landscape, floating above the Fox River, which frequently floods the land under the house. This session covers the fascinating personalities and history behind the Farnsworth House, the struggle to save the modernist icon by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the conservation efforts underway and the innovative program and offerings that allow visitors to see the house in new ways demonstrating how a classic can continue to inspire architects, designers, visual and performing artists and tourists for over seventy years.

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Course expires 09/19/2024

1.00 LU|HSW