2014 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Second International Congress of Architects and Technicians of Historic Monuments and the adoption of the International Charter for the Conservation…
The Preservation of Urban Heritage: An Idea from Modern Times The opening statements of the International Charter for the Conservation and Restoration of Monuments and…
It stands as a truism that the present condition of heritage preservation is more complicated than it was in the past. That is the case…
In the 1960s, Raymond M. Lemaire established himself as a key figure of the international preservation world.2 Educated as an art historian in the 1940s,…
Changing Principles on and Approaches to Heritage What is now called ‘‘cultural heritage management’’ has in the past primarily focused on the protection of monuments…
Any discussion of restoration in Spain around 1964 inevitably points to a very peculiar moment in the country’s history. The first three decades of the…
Due to Cold War complications, Soviet specialists had very limited involvement with the development of the Venice Charter. Instead, they developed an independent system of…
As European industry has globalized and shifted production to emerging countries, it has left high unemployment and many shuttered production plants in its wake. This…
The Venice Charter, which resulted from the deliberations of practitioners about the restoration of flood-damaged buildings in Venice in 1964, has become the fundamental reference…
Adopted in 1964, the Venice Charter is considered the philosophical foundation for the field of heritage preservation. Revered, discussed, criticized, and lamented, it, along with…
The Venice Charter has now been in existence for five decades, and in that time, the charter has significantly influenced the preservation practices of countries across…
Any examination of the impact of the 1964 International Charter for the Conservation and Preservation of Monuments and Sites (more commonly known as the Venice…
The notion of ‘‘historic authenticity’’ was initially mentioned in a series of cultural relics textbooks edited by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage of the…
The Venice Charter (1964) reaffirmed the historicist principles of the Athens Charter (1931), recasting them in terms of universal values. Since then, critics of the Venice…
Authenticity has been recognized as a theoretically and practically complex and important issue, on which numerous articles have been published. For example, the Bibliographic Database…
