Clemson Could Help Preserve Clemson Architecture

Clemson University is exploring a program that would allow faculty and students to help preserve Cuba's architectural heritage.

A news release from the school says students from the Warren Lasch Conservation Center in North Charleston and faculty from the Clemson-College of Charleston Graduate Program in Historic Preservation recently visited Cuba to talk about a possible partnership.

If the details can be worked out, faculty will return to Cuba later this year to work with Cuban educators, planners, architects and archaeologists to study and launch a pilot project in the Cuban city of Trinidad.

A report published about 16 years ago identified several categories of at-risk buildings in Cuba. They include buildings connected with agriculture and urban industry, wooden buildings and buildings from the 20th century.