Architect Humberto Saldaña is widely known for his work restoring some of San Antonio’s most historic buildings and landmarks.
. The American Institute of Architecture recognized Saldaña’s work on the Crockett building with an award for excellence in design and restoration.
“The Nauwald Building Complex on S. Flores is another example of Humberto Saldaña’s vision for adaptive reuse of underutilized historic assets,” wrote Mary Nethery in her recent nomination of the architect for the Preservation Hero award. “In the old days, [the city] used to have a project and they would invite all the architects to submit their qualifications and select whoever’s going to be doing the job,” Saldaña said. “Now the city is hiring contractors first.”
James Lewis, a licensed architect and professor in practice at UTSA’s College of Engineering and Integrated Design, said industry changes have affected many locally owned firms across the country. While there remains what he calls a “tradition of independence” in architecture, ups and downs in the economy also tend to hurt the smaller firms first as non-institutional clients lose confidence in spending and investment. More recently, the coronavirus pandemic dealt another blow.
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