May 21, 2026 12:00pm EST
Along with its 90th anniversary this year, Fallingwater is celebrating the completion of World Heritage Preserved, an extensive three-year preservation project. In an effort to eliminate the house’s water infiltration issues, skilled contractors and maintenance staff replaced the house’s roofing assemblies and terrace waterproofing, repointed the stone masonry and injected it with grout, and repaired areas of deteriorated reinforced concrete. Join Scott Perkins, Fallingwater’s Senior Director of Preservation and Collections, for a panel discussion with Pamela Jerome, lead preservation architect, Stephanie Gerard, project manager, and John Matteo, structural engineer, as they discuss the project’s unique challenges and reflect on the successful outcomes of the past three years.
About the Presenters
Scott W. Perkins
Scott W. Perkins is Fallingwater’s Senior Director of Preservation and Collections at Fallingwater.
Pamela Jerome
Architectural Preservation Studio, DPC
With over 30 years’ experience as a preservation architect, Pamela Jerome, FAIA, LEED AP, FAPT is President of Architectural Preservation Studio, DPC. She was an Adjunct Associate Professor of the Historic Preservation program at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and teaches professional seminars at NYU’s School of Continuing and Professional Education.
Ms. Jerome is very involved with international NGOs, including ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites) where she sits on the Board, is a Scientific Council Officer and an expert member of three International Scientific Committees; APT (Association for Preservation Technology) as the US/ICOMOS liaison to that Board and as a member of the College of Fellows; and Global Heritage Fund as a member of its Senior Advisory Board. She is a Peer Professional for preservation for GSA’s Design Excellence program.
Her expertise is in masonry conservation and waterproofing, with a particular emphasis on Modernism, earthen architecture, archaeological-site preservation and cultural-site management. She is widely published and recognized as an international expert in cultural heritage. She has consulted on cultural property conservation in the US, Mediterranean, Black Sea, and Middle East.
Stephanie Gerard
Studio Manager & Sr. Project Manager
Stephanie Gerard is a Belgian architect with 8 years of experience in heritage and conservation. After completing her master’s degree in architecture at the Institut Supérieur d’Architecture Lambert Lombard (ISALL) in Belgium in 2005, she worked as a preservationist architect / project manager in two Belgian architecture and design offices where she lead a variety of projects related to heritage and conservation, urban design, and construction of luxury houses and commercial buildings.
Seeking to complete her academic training, she obtained two complementary master’s degrees in heritage and conservation at Centre Raymond Lemaire in Leuven (2008), Belgium and Ecole de Chaillot in Paris, France (2013).
She is a senior project manager with Architecture Preservation Studio since 2015 and the studio manager since 2018.
John Matteo
John Matteo has played an integral role in the ongoing preservation of Fallingwater for more than 20 years. As part of Robert Silman’s team, he helped to prevent the possible collapse of the house’s cantilevers through the installation of an elegant post-tensioning solution in the early 2000s. Since that time, John has consulted on a range of preservation projects that require his structural engineering expertise. John is the principal of 1200 Architectural Engineers, PLLC located in Alexandria, VA. He is also a lecturer at Johns Hopkins University’s Whiting School of Engineering.