A new book, ‘The Conservation Movement – a History of Architectural Preservation from Antiquity to Modernity’ (Routledge, published January 2013).
Society of Architectural Historians Announces 2016 Publication Award Recipients. One of the winning books is that:
Miles Glendinning, The Conservation Movement:
A History of Architectural Preservation (Routledge, 2013)
From the publisher: 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. 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. 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 inter-relationship between conservation and modern civilisation was most dramatically heightened in periods of war or social upheaval, beginning with the French Revolution, and rising to a tragic climax in the 20th-century age of totalitarian extremism; more recently the troubled relationship of ‘heritage’ and global commercialism has become dominant.
Miles Glendinning’s new book authoritatively presents, for the first time, the entire history of this architectural Conservation Movement, and traces its dramatic fluctuations in ideas and popularity, ending by questioning whether its recent international ascendancy can last indefinitely. [Amazon]
http://www.archdaily.com/785538/society-of-architectural-historians-announces-2016-publication-award-recipients?ad_medium=widget&ad_name=architecture-news-article-sho
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http://www.nutshell-videos.ed.ac.uk/miles-glendinning-critical-conservation/
Miles Glendinning: Critical conservation
In this video Miles describes how 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. How has that widely-shared belief come about – and is its continued general acceptance inevitable?
Background: In this short research video, I focus on the theme of a major new book, ‘The Conservation Movement – a History of Architectural Preservation from Antiquity to Modernity’ (Routledge, published January 2013).
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. How has that widely-shared belief come about – and is its continued general acceptance inevitable? To be sure, ancient structures have long been treated with care and reverence in many societies, including classical Rome and Greece. 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 of loss, that paradoxically shared many of the driving, teleological characteristics of Enlightenment modernity. The close inter-relationship between conservation and modern civilisation was most dramatically heightened in periods of war or social upheaval, beginning with the French Revolution, and rising to a tragic climax in the 20th-century age of totalitarian extremism; more recently the troubled relationship of ‘heritage’ and global commercialism has become dominant.
‘The Conservation Movement’ authoritatively presents, as a whole and for the first time, this international story of the conservation of old buildings, and traces its dramatic fluctuations in ideas and popularity, ending by questioning whether its recent global ascendancy can last indefinitely.
Find out more:
Scottish Centre for Conservation Studies website #1
Scottish Centre for Conservation Studies website #2
DOCOMOMO-International (Urbanism and Landscape) website
Tower Block website
Miles’ Edinburgh Research Explorer profile
April 20, 2016
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