Bio
A cathedral trained stone carver, stone mason and conservator, he spent his formative years studying at Weymouth College Architecture Stone Carving Program, apprenticed at Lincoln Cathedral and was Deputy Yard Foreman at Wells Cathedral. In 2002 he began developing the academic program at American College of the Building Arts, became its founding Dean in 2005, Dean Emeritus in 2013 and, nominated by the faculty, as Professor Emeritus in 2020. He received South Carolina highest arts award the Elizabeth Verner O’Neill Governors Arts Award 2019 for Arts Education. Historic Charleston Foundation awarded him the Samuel Gaillard Stoney Conservation Craftsmanship Award in 2016. Preservation Trade Networks Askins Achievement Award, 2012. He managed a stone business, S. A Warren & Daughters, in Charleston carving high end fireplaces and working on conserving historic stonework throughout the city.
In 2020 he joined the National Park Service at the National Center for Preservation Technology and
Training as Chief of the Building and Landscapes program and is part of NPS Cultural Resources Climate Core group working on the national response to the climate crisis. The Centers purpose is to develop new ways to preserve our cultural built heritage through preservation technology research and training, the dissemination of new information and traditional knowledge skills awareness. He manages programs for NPS with partner organizations across the country.
Warren’s first PTN was in Colombia Maryland 2003, joining the board in 2005-2012 becoming the vice president in 2009-2012 and leading the joint APT/PTN conference in Charleston SC 2012. Managed the gravesite workshop in New Orleans LA and the Mount Lebanon Shaker Village Traditional Building and Historic Preservation Field School, New Lebanon, New York alongside the world monument fund staff. He was part of the founding group who developed PTN International Trades Education Symposium programming for PTN. In 2018 he was asked to manage the Askins Achievement Award Group made up of all the Askins Award winners.
