Michael Tomlan

Professor
Director, Historic Preservation Planning Program
mat4@cornell.edu
207 W. Sibley
607.255.7261

Education

  • B.Arch., University of Tennessee, 1973
  • M.S.H.P., Columbia University, 1976
  • Ph.D., Cornell University, 1983

Bio

Michael Tomlan, a historic preservationist expert in building conservation technology, documentation methods for preservation, and the history of the preservation movement, directs the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation Planning. He also directs Cornell’s Clarence S. Stein Institute for Urban and Landscape Studies. He is project director of the National Council for Preservation Education and a member of the editorial advisory boards of several journals, including the International Journal of Heritage Studies. Recent consulting experience includes work for the World Monuments Fund, Conifer Development, Taconic Capitol, Inc., and rehabilitation and restoration projects in Arizona, New Jersey, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Tennessee, New York, and Pennsylvania. Since 1992 he has been president of Historic Urban Plans, an Ithaca-based business.

Courses

CRP560 - Documentation for Preservation
CRP562 - Perspectives on Preservation
CRP564 - Building Materials Conservation
CRP561 - Fieldwork/Workshop in Historic Preservation
CRP661 - American Urban History
CRP664 - Economics and Financing of Neighborhood Conservation and Preservation
CRP665 - Preservation Planning and Urban Change

Research and Publication

Building Conservation Technology
Documentation Methods for Preservation
History of the Preservation Movement
China, Canada

Publication

Popular and Professional American Architecture Literature in the Late Nineteenth Century