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Studio HP is a conservation and planning studio dedicated to the built environment. Work includes restoration, remodelling, additions and planning related to existing structures or artifacts. Research projects include: title searches, historic owner biographies and construction histories. Building analysis work involves condition assessments, material analysis of mortar and paint, and material technology assessments. 

Founder and head conservator, Laura C. Knapp, has been involved in architecture and historic preservation for over twenty years. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Architecture at the University of California at Berkeley and a Masters of Science in Historic Preservation from Columbia University in New York City.  

Laura has been project manager and construction administrator on several high-profile projects. Her projects have ranged in size and complexity. Noteworthy preservation projects include: Restoration of San Francisco City Hall; Restoration of the Angel Island Immigration Station; Rehabilitation of the Mark Hopkins Hotel in San Francisco; Design Guidelines for the Spreckels Factory Town near Monterey, California; as well as Stabilization of Pony Express Stations in Nevada. She writes history and planning reports involving significant or noteworthy buildings and prepares National Register Nominations, applications for applying the property tax assessment freeze and Federal income tax credits. 

Laura has lectured extensively on architecture and architects as well as preservation and design guidelines. Book credits include co-authoring Modern San Francisco: Neighborhood Tours of San Francisco, and as a contributor to the metals chapter of Twentieth-Century Building Materials, History and Conservation, as a result of her expertise in building material conservation. She is a founding and former board member of Docomomo US (Documentation and Conservation of Buildings, Sites and Neighborhoods of the Modern Movement) United States Chapter, Northern California Chapter, and Midwest Chapter.