ARCH 5325 Conservation Policies

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ARCH 5325Conservation Policies

• What is Preservation?

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Chapter One Basics of Preservation

• Are communities doing enough to preserve their
  heritage? Are they doing too much?
• Why or why not?
• Are they infringing on the rights of others?
• Who should determine what is historically
  significant?

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• Types of preservation
• Preservation
• Restoration
• Reconstruction
• Rehabilitation (Adaptive Use)
• What is Architectural Integrity?

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• Why is preservation appropriate today?
• Preservation of buildings saves a part of
  uswhere we came from.
• Older districts and buildings are often looked at
  for what they are now, not what they were, who
  built them, why, and what they signified.
• Preservationists show what it was, what it can
  be, and its meaning.

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• Philosophies
• Saving old buildings
• Preserving our cultural heritage
• Urban revitalizationeconomic boon, tourism
• Alternative approach to current development
  projectsSlows urban sprawl by reusing inner city
  buildings.
• ALL ARE INVOLVED IN DISTRICTS

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• Three differing philosophies
• Viollet le Duc
• Rebuild as it should have beenoften confusing
• Santa Barbaraunable to tell what is really old,
  BUT after 75 years many structures are historic
  in their own right.
• Santa Fe

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• John Ruskin
• Buildings should remain as they areuntouched to
  show age
• Charming
• Picturesque
• PERFECT restoration is wrong, does not show what
  it looked like

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• Chinese
• Replace the old with new and are not
  concernedprevious American Philosophy
• Culturally not importantForbidden City, etc.??

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• What is architectural integrity?
• Enough remains to have a sense of what is was.
  Not remodeled too much.
• New construction or additions to old buildings
  with clear or distinct difference in age. Should
  it be mistaken for old?
• What buildings should be restored?

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• What is significance in relationship
• to structures?
• Historical or architectural significance
• Architect
• Stylistic
• Owner
• Something important happened there

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