Retracing ‘Stones of Venice’
Pernille Christensen M ’00
Fall 2003
Clemson alumna Pernille Christensen recently visited
Venice, Italy, to retrace the steps of a 150-year-old study of Venetian
architecture.
An intern architect with Niles Bolton Associates in Atlanta, Ga., Christensen
is the recipient of the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation’s
2003 J. Neel Reid Prize, which includes a $5,000 fellowship.
She used the fellowship for travel to Venice to study the work of world-renowned
architectural writer John Ruskin.
During the two-week visit, she documented the current state and preservation
of classic carvings and decorations that have since deteriorated from
the time of Ruskin’s first sketches in his 1853 book, The Stones
of Venice.