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PUBLIC SERVICE
& MAJOR PRO-BONO PRESERVATION
PROJECTS
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1996-2002
Member of the
Board of Trustees of
US/ICOMOS.
(1999-2002 Member of
the Executive
Committee.)
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2000
Member of the
Organizing Committee
of the UNESCO/ICOMOS
Conference:
Earthquake-Safe; The
Seismic Performance of
Traditional Buildings,
held in Istanbul,
Turkey, November 2000.
The papers from the
conference are
published on the Web.
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2000-2001
Treasurer and
Member of the Board of
Directors of the
Gateway Georgetown
Condominium, 2500 Q
Street, NW, Washington
DC, 20007, a 274 unit
Condominium.
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1990-1992
Organizer and
Chairman of the AIA
Quake Repairs
Committee &
Co-Chair of the SB547
Unreinforced Masonry
Buildings Committee.
This was a voluntary
group of architects
and engineers
organized to work with
the City of Oakland to
improve the City's
post-Loma Prieta
Earthquake
regulations.
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1988-89
Member: Historic
Preservation Task
Force, City of Oakland
Planning Department.
The Task Force was
established by the
City Planning
Department in order to
draft a Historic
Preservation Element
for the City's Master
Plan.
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1989
While in Srinagar,
Kashmir (India),
Langenbach encouraged
efforts to change
government urban
renewal policies away
from the destruction
of the historic areas,
by working closely
with a Member of the
Legislative Council,
meeting with a leader
in the ruling National
Conference Party and
with other community
leaders, and with
leaders in New Delhi.
A report and
alternative plans are
forthcoming. (The 1982
Historic Preservation
Magazine article on
India and Kashmir was
influential in the
establishment in 1983
of the Indian National
Trust for Art and
Cultural Heritage,
which has begun
efforts to conserve
parts of the City of
Srinagar.)
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1989-1991
Volunteer advocacy
work to save the City
of Oakland's Broadway
Building, a
distinguished
flat-iron shaped
office building in the
City Center area. This
work delayed the
demolition, which was
followed by the
developer losing
control of the
building, which was
subsequently purchased
by the City, and
restored as part of
the City's
administrative office
complex.
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1988-89
As a board member
of the Oakland
Heritage Alliance,
Langenbach produced an
alternative plan and
organized a team of
experts to draft an
alternative structural
analysis and cost
estimates to attempt
to preserve the 1920
University High School
Building (also known
as the Grove St.
Campus) in Oakland.
The effort stimulated
the creation of a
powerful new community
group that actively
worked to conserve
this building. (Cf:
East Bay Express, Feb.
17, 1989, p 3.) The
building was saved,
and has since been
restored as a Senior
Center and as an
extension to Oakland
Children's Hospital.
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1988-89
In response to a
request for assistance
from the Committee to
Save the Alameda
Carnegie Library,
Alameda, California,
produced alternative
schematic designs
showing a new addition
to the building.
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1987-88
As a board member
of the Oakland
Heritage Alliance,
Langenbach provided
many legal and
technical briefs as
well as alternative
designs submitted
before the Oakland
City Planning
Commission in an
attempt to save the
1921 4th Church of
Christ Science
Building. The effort
was supported by the
Planning Commission,
but lost by one vote
at the City Council.
This building was lost
after a close vote at
the City Council, but
the campaign resulted
in the creation of the
Historic Preservation
Task Force,
responsible for
drafting an Historic
Preservation Element
for the City's General
Plan.
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1985
Exhibition: Joseph
Esherick: An
Exhibition of Work,
Wurster Hall Gallery,
May-June 1985.
Exhibition designed
and installed at the
UCB College of
Environmental Design,
and the UCLA School of
Architecture by
Randolph Langenbach.
The exhibition was
sponsored by the
Department of
Architecture,
University of
California, Berkeley,
and Esherick, Homsey,
Dodge and Davis,
Architects. The
exhibition has
traveled to galleries
at the University of
California, Los
Angeles, the
University of
Illinois, the
University of Southern
California, the
University of
Nebraska, the
University of
Pennsylvania, and The
American Institute of
Architects Annual
Meeting in 1986.
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1977-80
Individually
initiated effort to
encourage conservation
of historic industrial
buildings in
Lancashire and
Yorkshire, in Great
Britain. The project
was supported in 1978
by the conservation
group, SAVE Britain's
Heritage. The 1979
London Exhibition, the
1980 Bradford
Exhibition, and the
publication of the
report Satanic Mills,
all sponsored by SAVE,
resulted in a
substantial change in
Government policy in
several industrial
cities and also in the
organization of
several local
conservation projects.
(cf: David Lowenthal,
Chapter 8, Conserving
the Heritage:
Anglo-American
Comparisons, p 262, in
The Expanding City,
John Patten, Editor,
Academic Press, N.Y.C.
1983.)
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1971
Individually initiated
effort to preserve the
Crown and Eagle Mills,
North Uxbridge,
Massachusetts.
Following publication
of the 1971 article in
the Boston Globe, this
effort included the
initial raising of
funds and negotiations
to acquire the
historic buildings by
a preservation group.
A developer intending
to preserve the
building acquired it,
but it was destroyed
by fire set by vandals
in 1975. Because of
the earlier publicity
and the original plans
to conserve the
building, the project
for the site was
carried out by a new
developer who
reconstructed the
building within the
ruins.
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1968-1978
An individually
initiated effort
through publications
to preserve the
Amoskeag Mills,
Manchester, N.H. for
its historic,
architectural and
urban design
importance. The Urban
Renewal Project,
underway in 1968,
resulted in the
destruction of much of
the complex, but the
remaining housing and
many of the surviving
mills have since been
placed on the National
Register of Historic
Places and
rehabilitated.
Publicity surrounding
the mills was an
important stimulus for
the founding of the
National Historical
Park in Lowell,
Massachusetts. (Cf:
Ada Louis Huxtable,
Lessons in Urbicide,
in Goodbye History,
Hello Hamburger, The
Preservation Press,
Washington, 1986, pp
102-5. In subsequent
years, many of the
individual mill
buildings in the
millyard have been
restored, and the
effort to preserve the
Amoskeag Mills helped
to stimulate the
designation of Lowell,
Massachusetts as a
National Park.
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