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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Weiler, Katharina
• Gutschow, Niels

Titel

Architectural Heritage Conservation in South and East Asia and in Europe: Contemporary Practices

Ist Teil von

• Authenticity in Architectural Heritage Conservation, 2016, p.1-71

Ort / Verlag

Switzerland: Springer International Publishing AG

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• On the basis of a number of illustrated case studies from Germany, Nepal, India, China, and Japan, a variety of aspects of authenticity are presented in as undogmatic a way as possible—from the primary importance of tangible material to intangible aspects connected with building rituals and craftsmanship, and practices of cyclic renewal. Factors such as spirit of place and architecture often outweigh archeological perspectives, which tend to freeze an object in time. Until recently, conservation and restoration strategies were based on principles often aspiring to the status of belief systems. The past two decades have confronted the heartlands of the conservation movement in the West with a variety of values rooted in the conviction that it is time to leave behind the ideology of Europe’s nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the obsession with patina and materiality. The incipient transcultural debate is in the process of transcending established borderlines and exploring the amazing similarities between “European”/”North American” and “Asian” ideas and strategies in connection with such values as identity or integrity.