A virtual event with preservation architect Norma Barbacci.

This presentation described the Barbacci family journey from Italy to the Americas and the arc of Norma’s professional career as an architect and preservationist, which was launched by her first visit to Civita di Bagnoregio, Italy.

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More About Norma Barbacci:
A native of Lima-Peru, Norma is a preservation architect with over 30 years of experience in developing and managing international preservation projects, and principal at Norma Barbacci Preservation Consultants LLC. From 2001-2017, she was Program Director for Latin America, Spain and Portugal at World Monuments Fund where she coordinated the international symposium “Conservation and Sustainable Development of the Tuff Towns” that took place in 2008 in Pitigliano, Civita di Bagnoregio and Orvieto. From 1989-2001, Norma worked at Beyer Blinder Belle Architects and Planners, as senior project manager, associate, and studio director. Her first of many visits to Civita di Bagnoregio took place in the summer of 1982, as part of a joint summer program that included students from Carnegie Mellon U. and the U. of Washington. She received a B.Arch. from Carnegie Mellon in 1983, and a M.S. in Historic Preservation in 1987 from Columbia University, where she was awarded the Historic Preservation Thesis award for her Master’s design thesis on the adaptive re-use of Astra Zarina’s medieval residential complex in Civita di Bagnoregio, now property of the Civita Institute.