Faculty

Roger Lang

Roger Lang is a preservation architect with the New York Landmarks Conservancy. This influential non-profit organization encourages the adaptive use of older buildings in New York City and provides technical and financial assistance for those projects.

Every other year, as an adjunct faculty member, Roger travels to UVM to teach Development Economics of Historic Preservation. This alternate year schedule provides a unique opportunity for first semester students to learn alongside third semester students. The course focuses on the principles of extended or adaptive use of historic structures.

Students participate in field trips which highlight successful examples of reuse projects in the New England/New York area. At the heart of the course, student teams tackle finance, feasibility, design, and compliance issues in devising a professional-quality redevelopment scheme for a real property in the local area. Since 1980, students in the Development Economics course have conducted feasibility studies for such notable properties as: the Flynn Theatre in Burlington, the Champlain Mill in Winooski, Officers' Row at Fort Ethan Allen in Essex, and the Venture Farm in Richmond. Proposals to be developed in this year's course tentatively include: Addison County Courthouse, Middlebury; Galick Family Homestead, West Haven; Moran Power Plant, Burlington; Preston Farm, Bolton; Tracy Barn, Shelburne Farms, Vermont Hardware Boiler House, Burlington; and Vermont Transit Maintenance Complex, Burlington. Case studies are presented before a panel of preservation professionals.