Laura Buchner – Senior Conservator

Laura Buchner has more than twenty years of experience in the field of conservation. She earned her master’s degree in Historic Preservation from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation Historic Preservation. As a senior conservator at ICR, Laura’s responsibilities include execution and oversight of conditions assessments, development of conservation treatments, restoration design, and providing construction administration services. She has special expertise in the conservation of Guastavino tile assemblies and dalle de verre, a form of modern stained glass developed in France during the late 1920s that uses thick, colored glass pieces set in a matrix of epoxy or concrete. Over the years, she has contributed to several conferences and has written multiple articles for the APT Bulletin. She co-authored the chapter “New York Hall of Science” in Concrete: Case Studies in Conservation Practice, a 2018 publication by the Getty Conservation Institute. In 2018 she received a fellowship from the James Marston Fitch Charitable foundation to study dalle de verre and is currently writing a book on the subject with the support of the 2022 FAIC Samuel H. Kress Conservation Publication Fellowship. Laura is fellow of the Corning Museum of Glass.