Future Landmarks: Strategies for Cultural and Architectural Preservation

Elizabeth Blasius is an architectural historian, writer, and cofounder of Preservation Futures, a Chicago-based firm exploring the future of historic preservation through research, action, and design. She works on preservation projects at the radical forefront of the preservation movement, including buildings designed in the 1980s, 1990s, and beyond. Elizabeth advocates to bring the recognition and resources of preservation into communities that have been historically overlooked. Prior to founding Preservation Futures in 2021, Elizabeth worked in natural disaster recovery and mitigation, providing guidance on the care of historic places in the aftermath of hurricanes, floods, and other acts of climate violence. She has been a monthly columnist for MAS Context since 2022.

Nathan Eddy is an award-winning American filmmaker and journalist specializing in architecture and urban planning issues. His first two films, The Absent Column and Starship Chicago, document the struggle to protect Chicago’s architectural heritage. In 2017, Eddy organized and led the successful protest movement to landmark New York City’s epochal postmodern skyscraper, Philip Johnson and John Burgee’s AT&T Building. Since then, he has directed the films Battleship Berlin, Helmut Jahn: In a Flash, and Starship Chicago II.

Mark Pasnik is an architect and principal of the multi-disciplinary firm over,under where he has worked on urban, architectural, and design projects in the Middle East, Central America, and throughout the United States. He is a codirector of the pinkcomma gallery, cofounder and curator of the Design Biennial Boston, and coauthor of the book Heroic: Concrete Architecture and the New Boston published by Monacelli Press in 2015. He serves as chair of the Boston Art Commission.