Environments by Design

Jeffrey Burden is the former Architectural Historian of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Trained as both an architect and archaeologist at Berkeley, he has built a career developing place based academic programs in Historic Preservation.  His research focuses on the history of craftsmanship and the role it plays in defining the character of a city. As a Fellow of both The American Academy in Rome and The American School of Classical Studies, he has published extensively on sites spanning a variety of periods ranging from the Antique, the Islamic world, the Modern European city as well as America’s more recent past. Today Burden splits his time between the historic city of Charleston, SC and New York, where he directs The Building History Project at Macaulay Honors College of the City University of New York. 

Professor Jason Montgomery is an architect, urban designer, and educator who has worked in a number of international practices where he led design projects in Morocco, Costa Rica, England, and Egypt and the US. These projects include the extension to Selwyn College, Cambridge, the Columbia School of Social Work, and the site analysis for a New Residential College at Yale University. His work focuses on the nature of place, building tectonics, rural and urban space. Professor Montgomery’s teaching experience is diverse including appointments at University of Notre Dame’s Rome Program, Yale University, and Andrews University. His is currently Associate Professor at the New York City College of Technology and a Futures Fellow at the CUNY Grade Center. His research reflects his broad interests in architecture, education, and research methodology. He was a contributor to a recently published monograph by Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis, Bayt Farhi and the Sephardic Palaces of Ottoman Damascus. He recently published book chapters on text-based learning in architectural education, undergraduate research, and place-based learning. He holds a Masters of the Arts from University of Wales at Cardiff, Graduate Diploma from the Prince of Wales’s Institute for Architecture, and Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Notre Dame.