patricia elaine green

Patricia Elaine Green PhD, Team Leader of Patricia E. Green Architects, is a registered architect and a heritage professional with an International Doctorate in Architecture, Heritage and the City from the University of Seville [Universidad de Sevilla] in Spain; a Masters in Historic Preservation from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, USA; and a professional degree from the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, UK. As a registered architect, Dr Green has designed and built various projects in Jamaica and the Caribbean. Periodically she handles consultancies as an international expert on cultural heritage for the United Nations Educational Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Centre, and for the International Council on Monuments and Site (ICOMOS). Additionally, she has presented in a number of international conferences, and published in books, scientific journals, and is a newspaper columnist.  At the University of Technology, Jamaica over several years, Dr Green was Head of the Caribbean School of Architecture leading the process for its successful accreditation and international validation awards. She was instrumental in the design and establishment of the MPhil/PhD in the Built Environment programme with five specialisation areas in its Faculty of the Built Environment. 

Dr Green, is a member of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), and inaugural chairman of the Jamaica National Committee of ICOMOS. She is part of the ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on Cultural Landscapes, and co-convenes its Historic Urban Landscape (HUL)-2030 Working Group. An executive member of the Monuments and Sites of the Greater Caribbean (CARIMOS, she also is a distinguished membership of La Catedra de Gonzalez de Cardenas for Vernacular Architecture for the study and promotion of Vernacular Architecture under the patronage of the Spanish Marqués de Prado Ameno. The architectural magazine Archivos de Arquitectura Antillana (AAA) features her among ten Caribbean women architects in Panorama de Arquitectas y Arquitecturas del Caribe [Panorama of Women Architects and their Architecture in the Caribbean] 

My “life verse” as a woman of faith is Isaiah 58:12. It serves as a foundation for all that I do in whatever sphere of activity that I undertake, because some years ago I decided to operate all aspects of my life using Biblical principles.  Elaborated here as a combination of all the various English versions, I appropriate it to people and the environment:  “...Use the old rubble of past lives to build anew;  Raise up the age-old foundations;  Repair the broken places; Restore rebuild and renovate old and ancient ruins;  Rebuild the foundations from out of your past;  Rebuild the deserted ruins of your cities;  Make the community liveable again;  Raise up the foundations of [buildings & people that have laid waste for] many generations  --Repairer of the Breach   --Restorer of people and streets to dwell in.  --Builder and repairer of city walls and streets  --One who can fix anything...”