ABOUT

FRANK BRISCOE, PRINCIPAL & SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER

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Frank Briscoe is an architectural conservator and principal of Briscoe Architectural Conservation (BAC). His undergraduate studies were in English Literature at the University of Texas at Austin. His graduate work was in historic preservation in the College of Art, Architecture and Planning at Cornell University, under Professors Michael Tomlan, Ian Stewart, and Barclay Jones. Following graduate school, Briscoe worked in Boston with the North Atlantic Regional Office of the National Park Service. There he worked under Blaine Cliver at the Building Conservation Branch, doing restoration carpentry, laboratory analyses, and writing Historic Structure Reports. In 1991, Briscoe studied conservation and restoration at ICCROM, Rome, led by Jeanne Marie Tuetonico, with a scholarship supported by the Kress Foundation.

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Following ICCROM, Briscoe returned to Texas and formed Briscoe Architectural Conservation. BAC projects include contributions at World Heritage Sites such as Moenjodaro, in Sindh Province, Pakistan, where he was a senior architectural conservator with UNESCO, and Angkor, Cambodia, where he worked with the World Monuments Fund in the conservation of stone features at the Preah Khan temple complex. BAC projects include a wide range of cultural resources, with specialty in sympathetic structural interventions, particularly to Spanish colonial buildings of the Texas-Mexico borderlands.