New Mexico Heritage Scholarships

Four to six Scholarships of up to $5,000 each are awarded annually to students in the Graduate Certificate Program in Historic Preservation and Regionalism. The scholarships have been initiated by New Mexico Heritage Hotels, Inc. Their CEO, Jim Long, is a recent School of Architecture and Planning Alumni of the Year Award winner. Scholarships are open to those applying to or already enrolled in the certificate program. Students awarded this scholarship receive a prorated amount at the time of taking each course toward the certificate. Courses previously taken or currently enrolled in toward the certificate do not qualify.

Application deadlines for the scholarships are March 1 and November 1. Enquire about current availability before applying.

George Pearl Fellowships in Preservation + Regionalism

Architect George Clayton Pearl (1923-2003) may have been the most committed to regionally-responsive design and historic preservation of his 1950s generation of modernist-trained architects. As the primary designer for of the lending New Mexico firm of Stevens, Mallory, Pearl and Campbell, he designed an estimated 1,550 buildings, likely more than anyone else in the history of the state. He also was a founding member or stalwart of every Albuquerque, New Mexico and national preservation group beginning with the stirrings of the grass roots preservation movement in the late 1950s.

Architect George Clayton Pearl (1923-2003) may have been the most committed to regionally-responsive design and historic preservation of his 1950s generation of modernist-trained architects. As the primary designer for of the lending New Mexico firm of Stevens, Mallory, Pearl and Campbell, he designed an estimated 1,550 buildings, likely more than anyone else in the history of the state. He also was a founding member or stalwart of every Albuquerque, New Mexico and national preservation group beginning with the stirrings of the grass roots preservation movement in the late 1950s.

2006
Chester Liebs, educator and preservationist, Santa Fe, N.M.
Stefanos Polyzoides, architect and urbanist, Pasadena, California

Annual J.B. Jackson Lecture

The cultural landscape historian and theorist J. B. Jackson (1909-1996), who lived for nearly fifty years in and near Santa Fe, had a long relationship with the UNM School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P) as guest lecturer and occasional instructor. Through his magazine, Landscape, in the 1950s and 60s; his subsequent books of essays; lectures around the country; and teaching at Berkeley and Harvard, he catalyzed the rise of cultural landscape studies in the United States.

At the time of his death, he left a substantial bequest to the SA+P. The J. B. Jackson Endowment supports student field study and improved course offerings (especially in the Landscape Architecture program). In addition, the school has chosen to honor his generosity and the example of his intellectual work by establishing the J. B. Jackson Professor of Cultural Landscape Studies, and an annual J. B. Jackson Lecture each spring. The lecture also honors those who have made significant contributions to cultural landscape studies:

2001, Chris Wilson, “New Regional Initiative for New Mexico”
2002, Henry Glassie, “Landscape and Life: Lessons from Tradition”
2003, Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, “Rebuilding Central Park”
2004, Dolores Hayden, “A Field Guide to Sprawl”
2005, Paul Groth, “Making Modernity: Bungalow Neighborhoods in the American West”
2006, Setha Low, “The Architecture of Fear: Gated Communities in America”