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UK Architecture Professor's Work Featured on HGTV
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Aug. 15, 2006) − Clyde Carpenter, chair of the University of Kentucky Department of Historic Preservation, and his home are featured in a recent television episode of "reZONED" on the Home & Garden Television (HGTV) cable channel. Carpenter's work on his unique residence is part of an episode that previously aired on the cable channel July 30 and 31, and airs again at 7 p.m. Sunday, August 20, on HGTV (Insight Cable channel 32).
Carpenter's home is one of four featured on the television program "reZONED," which claims to turn the typical house tour on its ear. The show introduces its viewers to visionaries who found beauty in dilapidated commercial spaces, rezoning them into imaginative, amazing, one-of-a-kind homes. Carpenter gives HGTV's cameras a tour of his home that originally served as an 1850 Kentucky stable and carriage house in Lexington's Gratz Park Historic Neighborhood. Carpenter acquired the house in the late 60's soon after moving back to Lexington to take a job at UK.
Carpenter, an architect and department chair in the UK College of Design, also serves as a professor of architecture and as the Clay Lancaster Distinguished Professor of Historic Preservation. His areas of specialty are the modern house in Kentucky and adaptive reuse of historic structures. Carpenter earned his bachelor's degree in civil and architectural engineering from UK and his master's degree with academic honors in architecture from the University of Pennsylvania.
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