Campo’s Postindustrial DIY Earns Award and Honors

Image 1 Above: Postindustrial DIY: Recovering American Rust Belt Icons (Fordham Univ. Press, 2024)

Dr. Daniel Campo (Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Design and Planning) was awarded the Historic Preservation Book Prize for Postindustrial DIY: Recovering American Rust Belt Icons (Fordham Univ. Press, 2024)  from the Center for Historic Preservation at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Given annually, the award honors outstanding works that advance the field of historic preservation and the understanding of cultural heritage. Campo received the award and gave a book talk at the university on Tuesday, November 11.

The award comes on the heels of several other honors and distinctions Campo has earned for the book, including a quotation in the New York Times concerning a grassroots preservation project in a former automotive plant and in Smithsonian Magazine about the revival of the Michigan Central Station (both projects are in Detroit). He also delivered invited book talks at the University of Pennsylvania, MIT, the University of Minnesota, Hunter College, and others. And this past May, he traveled to Havana, Cuba to present Postindustrial DIY and participate in an industrial heritage workshop with other international industrial heritage and adaptation experts, along with architecture students from the Polytechnic University José Antonio Echeverría (CUJAE). The workshop – organized by the Friends of Havana, Centro Bahia en Regla and the Ludwig Foundation – was focused on the potential adaptation of the abandoned Termolectrica Power Plant on Havana Bay into a cultural park.

Image 2 (2 of 3): Industrial heritage workshop participants tour the Termoelectrica site on Havana Bay. 

Image 3 (3 of 3): Daniel CaImpo (center) with architect Aaron Vaden-Youmans (left) of Grimshaw and Friends of Havana co-founder Jasper Goldman. 

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