If you have questions, comments, or suggestions as to how I can improve the site or content, please do not hesitate to contact me. I am also a freelance consultant, so if you have any projects that you would like to discuss, I am always happy to listen.
Carla Bruni
Architectural Historian
Green Historic Preservation Consultant
carlabruni@greenpreservationist.org
the green preservationist 
Carla,
Just started reading your blog. Great work. Perhaps we can work together sometime. Adrian Scott Fine and I are working to bring the sustainability discussion into the area of modern and recent past buildings.
Best regards,
Chris Madrid French
Director, Modernism + Recent Past Program
National Trust for Historic Preservation
As Director of Preservation Partners of the Fox Valley ( which operates three museums and does a lot of preservation education programming in the valley) , I was acquainted with your blog by Karla Kaulfuss, another SAIC grad. in HP.
I gobbled up all your entries back to jan 1, and love your free-spirited but very lucid and sensible approach. Many of us in this region, as elsewhere, are struggling to establish the interface between Historic Preservation and
green/sustainability, and to find creative approaches to reconciling both. You can look at our website to read about our museums and our Advocacy programs.
Keep up the excellent, inpiring work. Loved your caption and your poem today!
Thanks, Liz, and so glad you like the blog! Things are constantly changing, and I think it’s important to be a bit philosophical as we change our perspectives and priorities within the context of climate change. I’m curious to see the work you do–Fox Valley is quite a large region–and would love to be updated on how you are tackling green initiatives. Please do stay in touch!
hello Carla! This was the way I found to get in touch with you…Your work seems great and I’m about to start on a little project here in Chicago (If all goes well) I’d love to talk to you about some of the dilemmas with preservation/greenness/low budget. There’s plenty more to say…hopefully we’ll be in touch!
Hi Carla,
I stumbled across your blog and was very impressed.
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Loved going through many of the posts. Made me miss Chi-town! Will see Vince for the Natl’ trust conference. Are you coming down, we’re planning the SAIC bar crawl.
Josh
Well thanks for the compliment! Sadly, won’t be able to make it to Austin as I’m in the midst of a zillion deadlines, but next time your in Chicago, let’s do a preservation pub crawl here. I have a book on historic pubs and am always thirsty!
Okay, I might have lied. I really want to go to this conference, and when there’s a will, there’s a way. I want in on this pub crawl!
Your LEED links don’t work – unless you paste them in the browser and delete the “www.preservegreen/wordpress.com part of it. Then they come up just fine.
Thanks for your blog – it’s very interesting.
Thanks! I’ll check it out!
Carla – I am at a Community College in NY. We are just beginning to offer the Lead RRP rule training. I googled Lead Paint pictures and your picture of the building with the peeling paint turned up first! Wouldl youo mind if i used that picture in some of our flyers?
Thanks so much,
Ann
Hi Ann, which picture did you want? The window one is not my own…I found it online via a google search. Is that the one you wanted? You can email me directly at carlabruni@greenpreservationist.org. Thanks!
Carla,
I happened upon your blog and found the post on the adaptive reuse of the Sears Power Station in Chicago. I am in the process of writing a children’s book (middle grade) about adaptive reuse. I’d like to include the projects. I think kids would get a kick out of the idea of attending school in a former power station. You have some nice shots. Did you take the photos? Or did someone else? I’d love to get permission to use a few. Please advise. At this point, I am drafting the Book Proposal and need to include sources of photos, etc. Thanks for any input you can offer.
Joan Marie Arbogast
Hi Joan,
Sounds like a great project! I took all of the color photos, so sure, please feel free to use them, just please credit me and let me know when that book comes out!
Best of luck,
Carla
Carla,
Thanks so much!!! Of course I’ll give you photo credits and I’ll have publisher send you a book when it is published! Will be in touch.
All the best,
Joan
My pleasure–so glad you found the blog. And yes, I would LOVE a copy of the book. I have nieces and a nephew who are getting old enough that I can mold their little brains a bit and trick them into fighting the good fight if I have some age-appropriate material 🙂
Love it!:-)