senior associate / Architect & Conservator

Sarah Devan

AIA, AIC sdevan@werarch.com

Full Bio: Sarah is a licensed architect and conservator with over twenty years of combined experience in the repair and restoration of buildings, sculpture, art objects, books and paper. She has a broad level of experience with architectural materials, including assessment and testing of masonry, wood, metals, and architectural finishes. She also has particular experience with terra cotta, stone, adobe, and brick masonry buildings. She has conducted numerous conditions assessments, and has provided technical reports, historic structure reports, and rehabilitation plans for anything from individual repair treatments to long-term planning initiatives for entire collections. As a licensed architect, she has developed repair details and specifications for restoration and rehabilitation projects, and monitored those projects through construction. And as a conservator, she has developed and performed hands-on conservation treatments on a variety of historic and contemporary art and architecture.