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This project analyzes the intersection between two highly specialized fields, sustainable building practices and the environmental controls crucial to art conservation maintained in art museum buildings. Art museums often cite these highly specialized light and atmospheric controls as an impediment to sustainable building. My goal is to bring these fields more closely together so that art museums can build sustainable facilities that cause less harm to the environment while simultaneously meeting art conservation needs.

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Preserving Art and the Environment through Sustainable Museum Buildings

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