Documentation is a valuable tool for preserving heritage resources. As new digital recording devices emerge, it is incumbent on heritage professionals to thoroughly evaluate them…
Innovation has always played an important role in heritage conservation. The interdisciplinary requirements of the field have required professionals to think creatively and to employ…
The sixteenth-century church, Iglesia San José, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, was placed on the World Monuments Watch in 2004. Originally known as the Iglesia…
The introduction and rapid spread of personal computers in the early 1980s had an effect on the way archaeological site inventories could be managed. The pioneering…
The emergence of new digital technologies and rapidly spreading Internet access together present possibilities for widely accessible, Web-based national information systems for the inventory and…
It is common knowledge that––with the exception of calamities such as fire, earthquakes, and floods––monuments decay in a gradual process and very often major damage…
With the nearing close of the first decade of the twenty-first century, the state of the world is far from healthy. Environmental degradation, economic malaise,…
The heritage field has long been plagued by threats of irrelevance, cast as outside the real business of society. But in a growing number of…
Restoration of the statue of Ta Reach, which stands in the West Gate of Angkor Wat, Cambodia, was completed between 2001 and 2003 as an…
The notion persists that by the time Philadelphia achieved political and economic prominence in the mid-eighteenth century, it was a “wholesome grid of streets and…
Architecture changed in the twentieth century. Long held notions regarding permanence and the continuity of tradition were fractured by the trauma of the First World…
AN INTERVIEW In September 2009 you delivered one of the keynote addresses to the 10th World Congress of the Organization of World Heritage Cities in…
Globalization is an enduring utopian ideal. But it is in immemorial conflict with heritage and identity. Hence ecumenical hopes are perennially dashed. We long to…
In her 2005 book Repair, the Impulse to Restore in a Fragile World, the writer and philosopher Elizabeth Spelman puts forth the notion that human…
The adaptation of preexisting structures to answer changing needs has enriched human history throughout time. Such structures—whether natural or designed artifacts—provide challenging topography for creative…
