Critical Built Heritage Practice and Conservation

Evolving Perspectives
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-28607-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 552 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Architectural Conservation and Historic Preservation

Critical Built Heritage Practice and Conservation - Evolving Perspectives supports an alternative point of departure for engaging with the historic built environment, by critically questioning the legitimacy of dominant conservation concepts and methods that are often taken for granted within building conservation, architecture, and adaptive reuse.

The meaning of heritage is changing. From pastness to presentness, from preservation to participation, and from tangible to intangible, heritage is increasingly understood as a dynamic, social, and intangible process across many disciplines. Consequently, the role and remit of the built heritage practitioner – and in particular the architectural conservationist – is becoming progressively complex and in need of a critical gaze.  Is restoration really a falsehood from beginning to end? Should the condition of existing materials determine the conservation method? Is authenticity really an inherent quality within old buildings? By engaging with a critical interpretation of heritage, this book makes space for practitioners to consider the evolution of their own role within a rapidly changing context of built heritage practice. Reinforced by a shift in emphasis from materials to meanings, a ‘socio-material outlook’ is proposed which champions an enhanced focus on intangible heritage within the built heritage sector, whilst still acknowledging the physical condition of old buildings is a priority for many stakeholders.

This book has been written with practitioners, students, and educators of architectural conservation in mind – although will also be of relevance to the broader built heritage industry; as well as academics, researchers, and heritage students with a passion for contemporary dialogues in heritage studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Djabarouti, Johnathan

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Bauingenieurwesen Gebäudesanierung, Instandhaltung
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Gestaltung, Darstellung, Bautechnik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Restaurierung, Instandhaltung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures
List of tables
List of acronyms

Foreword
Acknowledgements


Introduction: appraising norms of practice

Part I: from materials to meanings

Chapter 1 – antiquity and anxiety
Chapter 2 – the postmodern heritage turn
Chapter 3 – evolving perspectives on authenticity

Part II: towards an intangible outlook

Chapter 4 – immaterial manifestations of culture
Chapter 5 – immateriality and change in policy and guidance
Chapter 6 – deconstructing communal value
Chapter 7 – symbolism and spirituality

Part III: architectural conservation as future-oriented practice

Chapter 8 – building conservation as memory-making practice
Chapter 9 – participatory problems
Chapter 10 – a socio-material outlook

Concluding remarks: heritage futures and the role of the architectural conservationist

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Johnathan Djabarouti is a registered architect (ARB), accredited conservation professional (IHBC) and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). Following nearly a decade in professional practice working on both new and old buildings in historic contexts, he is currently Senior Lecturer in Architecture at the Manchester School of Architecture (MSA), UK. In 2018 he received AHRC funding for his PhD project titled The impact of intangible heritage on architectural and building conservation practices in the UK: a socio-material outlook. He has been an Academy Panellist on the RIBA Advanced Conservation Course since 2022 where he teaches delegates about intangible heritage and its relationship to heritage buildings, and in 2023 he secured an AHRC Innovation Scholars Secondment grant to Historic England for his project Intangible heritage and design in historic contexts. His research on the intersections between the conservation/adaptation of built heritage and critical heritage theory have been published and presented widely.