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The Monumental Challenge of Preservation

Author : Michele Valerie Cloonan
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262548984
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book The Monumental Challenge of Preservation written by Michele Valerie Cloonan and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The enormous task of preserving the world's heritage in the face of war, natural disaster, vandalism, neglect, and technical obsolescence. The monuments—movable, immovable, tangible, and intangible—of the world's shared cultural heritage are at risk. War, terrorism, natural disaster, vandalism, and neglect make the work of preservation a greater challenge than it has been since World War II. In The Monumental Challenge of Preservation Michèle Cloonan makes the case that, at this critical juncture, we must consider preservation in the broadest possible contexts. Preservation requires the efforts of an increasing number of stakeholders. In order to explore the cultural, political, technological, economic, and ethical dimensions of preservation, Cloonan examines particular monuments and their preservation dilemmas. The massive Bamiyan Buddhas, blown up by the Taliban in 2001, are still the subject of debates over how, or whether, to preserve what remains, and the U. S. National Park Service has undertaken the complex task of preserving the symbolic and often ephemeral objects that visitors leave at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial—to take just two of the many examples described in the book. Cloonan also considers the ongoing genocide and cultural genocide in Syria; the challenges of preserving our digital heritage; the dynamic between original and copy; efforts to preserve the papers and architectural fragments of the architect Louis Sullivan; and the possibility of sustainable preservation. In the end, Cloonan suggests, we are what we preserve—and don't preserve. Every day we make preservation decisions, individually and collectively, that have longer-term ramifications than we might expect.

Why Preservation Matters

Author : Max Page
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300218583
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Why Preservation Matters written by Max Page and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Prologue: Todos por la vida-Everything for Life -- one: Not Your Grandmother's Preservation Movement -- two: Why We Preserve -- three: How Americans Preserve -- four: Preservation and Economic Justice -- five: Preservation and Sustainability -- six: Preserving and Interpreting Difficult Places -- seven: Beauty and Justice -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z

Historic Preservation

Author : Frederick L. Rath
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (568 download)

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Download or read book Historic Preservation written by Frederick L. Rath and published by . This book was released on 1955* with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Giving Preservation a History

Author : Max Page
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415934427
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book Giving Preservation a History written by Max Page and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents

Problems in the Preservation of Monuments

Author : Sandra Davison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book Problems in the Preservation of Monuments written by Sandra Davison and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

America's National Monuments

Author : Hal Rothman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America's National Monuments written by Hal Rothman and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rothman traces the evolution of federal preservation. He shows how laws, policies, personalities, personal and bureaucratic rivalries, and a changing cultural climate affected preservation efforts. he illustrates how the national park system has functioned and changed over the years as public officials have tried to implements federal policy at the grassroots level.

Historic Preservation, Third Edition: An Introduction to Its History, Principles, and Practice (Third Edition)

Author : Norman Tyler
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393712982
Total Pages : 565 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (937 download)

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Book Synopsis Historic Preservation, Third Edition: An Introduction to Its History, Principles, and Practice (Third Edition) by : Norman Tyler

Download or read book Historic Preservation, Third Edition: An Introduction to Its History, Principles, and Practice (Third Edition) written by Norman Tyler and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic text covers the gamut of preservation issues in layman’s language. Historic preservation, which started as a grassroots movement, now represents the cutting edge in a cultural revolution focused on “green” architecture and sustainability. This book provides comprehensive coverage of the many facets of historic preservation: the philosophy and history of the movement, the role of government, the documentation and designation of historic properties, sensitive architectural designs and planning, preservation technology, and heritage tourism, plus a survey of architectural styles. An ideal introduction to the field for students, historians, preservationists, property owners, local officials, and community leaders, this thoroughly revised edition addresses new subjects, including heritage tourism and partnering with the environmental community. It also includes updated case studies to reflect the most important historic preservation issues of today; and brings the conversation into the twenty-first century.

Preserving America's Heritage

Author : National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Preserving America's Heritage written by National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Historic Preservation

Author : Michael A. Tomlan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9783319355191
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (551 download)

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Download or read book Historic Preservation written by Michael A. Tomlan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This well-illustrated book offers an up-to-date synthesis of the field of historic preservation, cast as a social campaign concerned with the condition, treatment and use of the legacy of existing properties in the United States. Drawing on a wide range of research, experience and scholarship over the last fifty years, it allows us to re-think past and current ideas in preservation, challenging readers to explore how their own interests lie within the cognitive framework of the activities taking place with people who care. “Who” is involved is explored first, in such a way as to explore “why”, before examining “what” is deemed important. After that the questions of “when” and “how” to proceed are given attention. The major topics are introduced in an historical review through the mid-1980s, after which the broad intellectual basis and fundamental legal framework is provided. The economic shifts associated with major demographic changes are explored, in tandem with responses of the preservation community. A chapter is dedicated to the financial challenges and sources of revenue available in typical preservation projects, and another chapter focuses on the manner in which seeing, recording, and interpreting information provides the context for an appropriate vision for the future. In this regard, it is made clear that not all “green” design alternatives are preservation-sensitive. The advocacy battles during the last few decades provide a number of short stories of the ethical battles regarding below-ground and above ground historic resources, and the eighth chapter attempts to explain why religion has been long held at arm’s length in publicly-supported preservation efforts, when in fact, it holds more potential to regenerate existing sites than any governmental program.

The Challenge to Our Cultural Heritage

Author : Unesco
Publisher : UNESCO
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Challenge to Our Cultural Heritage written by Unesco and published by UNESCO. This book was released on 1986 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Readings in Historic Preservation

Author : Norman Williams
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Readings in Historic Preservation written by Norman Williams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1983 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The readings in this book on the where, why, and how of historic preservation provide a broad overview of the field as well as a detailed scrutiny of the principal issues facing preservation today. This volume is intended to give those dealing with historic preservation the necessary substantive background to understand and solve the problems that arise in preservation programs.Sections include readings on: The forerunners of the modern preservation movement Criteria for landmark designation methods Issues of architectural conformity Rehabilitation techniques Adaptive reuse Area planning Displacement This landmark anthology brings together selections which range from Nantucket to Texas, Beacon Hill to Tombstone, Arizona. It covers topics from inner-city revitalization to preserving adobe structures to sample historic district zoning ordinances. Authors represented include Ada Louise Huxtable, Paul Goldberger, Kevin Lynch, James Marston Fitch, Charles Hosmer, and many other experts in the field.The book is must reading in courses on historic preservation and for planners, attorneys, public officials, and the interested public.

Preservation, Sustainability, and Equity

Author : Erica Avrami
Publisher : Columbia Books on Architecture and the City
ISBN 13 : 9781941332702
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book Preservation, Sustainability, and Equity written by Erica Avrami and published by Columbia Books on Architecture and the City. This book was released on 2021-11 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heritage occupies a privileged position within the built environment. Most municipalities in the United States, and nearly all countries around the world, have laws and policies to preserve heritage in situ, seeking to protect places from physical loss and the forces of change. That privilege, however, is increasingly being unsettled by the legacies of racial, economic, and social injustice in both the built environment and historic preservation policy, and by the compounding climate crisis. Though many heritage projects and practitioners are confronting injustice and climate in innovative ways, systemic change requires looking beyond the formal and material dimensions of place and to the processes and outcomes of preservation policy--operationalized through laws and guidelines, regulatory processes, and institutions--across time and socio-geographic scales, and in relation to the publics they are intended to serve. This third volume in the Issues in Preservation Policy series examines historic preservation as an enterprise of ideas, methods, institutions, and practices that must reorient toward a new horizon, one in which equity and sustainability become critical guideposts for policy evolution.

The Fragile Monument, on Conservation and Modernity

Author : Thordis Arrhenius
Publisher : Artifice Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781907317477
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book The Fragile Monument, on Conservation and Modernity written by Thordis Arrhenius and published by Artifice Incorporated. This book was released on 2012 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fragile Monument is a study of the discourse of conservation and its effect on the notion and role of the monument in contemporary western society. Through a revisionist account of the history of conservation, the book explores how the monument has been transformed from an object that originally communicated permanence to an object that is perceived as fragile and in need of protection. The argument put forward is that the expansion and popularisation of conservation is bound to a narrative of loss and danger that reveals a paradoxical relationship between destruction and preservation. In a series of case-studies the book shows how spatial devices have been used to negotiate this paradox and how this use of space has contributed to the defining of the monument as an object of conservation. Throughout its history, conservation has been surrounded by a polemic dominated by concepts of authenticity, origin and authorship. By studying that debate in relation to the case-studies, The Fragile Monument adumbrates the implications these concepts carry with them, both for the discipline of conservation and for the discourse of architecture as a whole. Identifying and examining particular 'sites of conflicts' where critical uncertainty, ambivalence, and heated debates have surrounded the 'object' of restoration, The Fragile Monument contributes significantly to expanding and shifting architectural discourse into a direction of crucial relevance today.

Preservation

Author : Peter Svenson
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 9780571198634
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (986 download)

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Download or read book Preservation written by Peter Svenson and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 1995-05 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do we keep and why do we keep it? If something is worth keeping, how do we go about preserving it? These are the questions Peter Svenson addresses in Preservation, a moving and eloquent meditation on the idea of preservation, public and private, natural and historical. Svenson, an abstract artist and the author of the critically acclaimed Battlefield: Farming a Civil War Battleground, lives on and farms a field that was the site of a Civil War battle in Virginia. He begins Preservation with the impulse to preserve the battlefield and other Civil War monuments, questioning what is being memorialized both physically and morally, and pointing out that how we choose to memorialize something is as important as what we choose to remember about it. He then moves to the idea of saving the farmland surrounding his own - land that, without intervention, will probably be sold for development within the next generation. He describes his struggles to maintain his fields without the use of chemicals and to painstakingly refurbish old farm implements. At the same time, he brings the ambivalence of his neighbors toward the historical and financial demands of their property into sharp focus. Interspersed throughout is a memoir of Svenson's New England boyhood in which he evokes and thereby preserves his best self at a variety of ages and contemplates how these selves are incorporated into - or missing from - the middle-aged man he is today. Graceful, impassioned, and personal, Preservation is a call to all of us to appreciate what needs to be preserved in the world and in the self.

Historic Preservation Technology

Author : Robert A. Young
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historic Preservation Technology written by Robert A. Young and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-03-21 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Assuming that the reader has no prior knowledge of preservation materials and methods, this introductory text is ideal for students and readers interested in historic preservation, architecture, interior design, and construction technology."--BOOK JACKET.

International Principles of Preservation

Author : Michael Petzet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783930388547
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (885 download)

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Download or read book International Principles of Preservation written by Michael Petzet and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Care of Ancient Monuments

Author : Gerard Baldwin Brown
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781019593929
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (939 download)

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Download or read book The Care of Ancient Monuments written by Gerard Baldwin Brown and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preserving our cultural heritage is a vital task, and this book by Gerard Baldwin Brown provides valuable insights on how to do so. Covering topics like conservation, restoration, and maintenance, this book is a valuable resource for anyone involved in the care of ancient monuments. With numerous illustrations and examples, this book is an engaging and informative read. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.