 ne of the ways Historic Charleston Foundation fulfills its educational mission is
through the management of an active year-round internship program. Working in partnership with the International Council of Monuments and Sites
(ICOMOS), Historic Charleston Foundation has welcomed architectural interns from all corners of the globe as part of an exciting and productive summer exchange program.
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Katarina Voskova of Slovakia at
Charleston City Hall, 80 Broad Street |
ICOMOS, the only group that deals with historic preservation in a global context, places interns from around the world under the tutelage of
preservation organizations such as HCF to promote a better understanding of international preservation policies and methods. Interns chosen
for the highly selected program are preservation professionals between the ages of 22 and 35.
Skilled young architects from Ghana, Slovakia, Turkey, India, Benin, Lithuania, and Bulgaria have completed a number of architectural
documentation projects in and around Charleston. These hand drawings are made to Historic Architectural Buildings Survey (HABS)
specifications and are an important and enduring record of some of the most important structures in the Lowcountry: the Old Powder Magazine,
Old Bethel Methodist Church, 14 Legare Street, Mulberry Plantation, McLeod Plantation, the kitchen house of 82 Pitt Street, College of
Charleston's Porter's Lodge, and Charleston City Hall and 9 East Battery. Drawings of these properties are safeguarded and accessible to the
public as permanent records within the HCF archives and within the HABS collection of the U.S. Library of Congress. In the event of a natural
disaster, these drawings would be invaluable documentation of the buildings.
| ICOMOS intern Velina Panjarova of Bulgaria, assisted by College of Charleston intern
Amelia Lafferty, document the monumental Robert William Roper House at 9 East Battery. |
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The ICOMOS/ HCF summer internships serve as a model exchange program. Charlestonians gain new insights as architects from around the world share with
HCF their ideas, techniques and methods for global preservation. The interns, in turn, are able to share new preservation perspectives and techniques
with colleagues in their own countries.
Recent ICOMOS Internships at HCF
2007 - Marianna Isa of Kuala Malaysia is an architect who has most recently worked in the World Heritage City of Bath in England. Marianna is working with US/ICOMOS intern Jeanhwa Song of Seoul, South Korea, and a team of students from Clemson University's program in Historic Preservation. Their principle project is a documentation and mapping of Charleston's historic Magnolia Cemetery.
2006 - Abbid Hussain Kahn , an architect and preservationist from the Shrinigar City in Kashmir, worked on a historic structures report for Comingtee Plantation on the Cooper River in Berkeley County. The property consists of the ruins of a brick plantation house, c. 1728, and a rare surviving brick rice mill, also in ruins, c.1830. Abbid documented the ruins through auto-CAD drawings and also assisted with drafting a series of recommendations for stabilization and long-term maintenance of the structures. He also executed measured drawings for several freedmen's cottages in downtown Charleston.
Read the Comingtee and Stoke Plantations Report online (6.3MB PDF).
2005 -
Flaminia Poloni of Padua, Italy, documented through measured drawings, the Daniel Cannon House (Anderson House) at 274 Calhoun Street. This Federal style house, built between 1802 and 1815 retains many of its early interior features.
2004 - Cameron Hartnell, from Sydney, Australia, used cutting-edge GIS and satellite technologies to create ground-breaking maps of Charleston,
which will lay the foundation for future study. With these maps, users can track the great historic fires that swept through the city, as well as
such things as historic district designations and easement property locations.
2003 - Velina Panjarova of Sofia, Bulgaria, executed detailed drawings of the William Roper House at 9 East Battery.
2002 - Giedre Gajauskaite of Lithuania documented a portion of the Confederate Home on Broad Street, as well as the main house of McLeod Plantation.
2001 - Katarina Voskova of the World Heritage City in Banska Stiavnica, Slovakia, documented Charleston City Hall, 80 Broad Street.
2000 - Sanskritti Rawat of India completed detailed drawings of Mulberry Plantation in Berkeley County, South Carolina.
1999 - Irenee Sessou of the Republic of Benin in West Africa developed detailed drawings of the kitchen house at 82 Pitt Street and the College of Charleston's Porter Lodge on George Street.
1998 - Aynur Cifci of Istanbul, Turkey, completed her ICOMOS internship shortly before a major earthquake shook Istandbul's architectural and social foundations to the core. In her final report to ICOMOS, Aynur emphasized the value of cooperation among preservationists worldwide: "I think it's difficult to work on cultural heritage projects even if you have all possibilities and large capacities. But when people who share the same aims and same principles are together, you can see the successful results soon."
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