Conservation Movement: A History of Architectural Preservation Glendinning Miles Edinburgh College of Art
Conservation Movement: A History of Architectural Preservation Glendinning Miles Edinburgh College of Art Winner of the 2016 Antoinette Forrester Downing Award presented by the Society of…
Specifikacia Conservation Movement: A History of Architectural Preservation Glendinning Miles Edinburgh College of Art
Conservation Movement: A History of Architectural Preservation Glendinning Miles Edinburgh College of Art
Winner of the 2016 Antoinette Forrester Downing Award presented by the Society of Architectural Historians.In many cities across the world, particularly in Europe, old buildings form a prominent part of the built environment, and we often take it for granted that their contribution is intrinsically positive. But only in modern Europe and America, in the last two centuries, has this care been elaborated and energised into a forceful, dynamic ideology: a 'Conservation Movement', infused with a sense of historical destiny and loss, that paradoxically shared many of the characteristics of Enlightenment modernity. The close How has that widely-shared belief come about, and is its continued general acceptance inevitable?Certainly, ancient structures have long been treated with care and reverence in many societies, including classical Rome and Greece.