Frank Matero, professor of architecture and chair of PennDesign’s graduate program in historic preservation, is the recipient of the 2018 Sheldon and Caroline Keck Award. The award recognizes “a sustained record of excellence in the education and training of conservation professionals” and was presented at the 46th Annual Meeting of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works.

Mr. Matero also presented at the conference, Ground-Truthing Adobe Ruins: Assessing Vulnerability of Earthen Architecture in a Changing Climate, based on work he leads with PennDesign’s Architectural Conservation Laboratory at Fort Union National Monument, the largest adobe ruin in North America and once the largest US military reservation.

Mr. Matero is founder and editor-in-chief of Change Over Time, an international journal on conservation and the built environment published by Penn Press.