Robert Warden is Professor of architecture at Texas A&M and has been involved in heritage conservation work, both nationally and internationally since 1986.  He practiced as an architect in Philadelphia at the firms of Mitchell Giurgola and Jordan Mitchell, while lecturing in the Architectural Engineering Dept. at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA. Warden joined the Texas A&M faculty in 1994.  He currently teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in design, historic preservation and architectural theory while directing research in heritage conservation.  The focus of his heritage conservation work has been in the development of documentation and analytical methods for interpreting historic structures for architectural, historical, and engineering studies.  Some notable buildings and sites he studied include the Alamo, Alcatraz, Cathedral St. Just in Narbonne, France, the WWII D-Day site at Pointe du Hoc in Normandy, France and many sites in Belize with the Maya Research Program.   He holds an M.A. in philosophy from the University of New Mexico, earned Master of Architecture from Texas A&M University, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University.