Returning to Rome to live after twenty-eight years, I will compile and analyze over two decades of pioneer conservation projects in the Spanish Caribbean, to be used to create a viable model for other regional areas to understand and conserve their local technologies. These past investigations will be complemented and enriched by my study of contemporary Italian architectural conservation/preservation practices, which in essence, deal with similar building techniques and traditional construction materials, since Roman buildings constituted the basis for Spanish-Colonial Caribbean construction technologies. My work at the Academy will contribute to a proposed publication designed to be a valuable tool to professionals, trades people and students dealing with sixteenth- to twentieth-century buildings in our area of the West Indies. Rubble-masonry, wood, brick, stone, and concrete technologies will be presented through historic structures in the region. The publication will provide not only specific research topics for the student, but more importantly, systematic approaches and processes in the understanding of the built environment and successful interventions into historic constructions.