The Production of Heritage: The Politicisation of Architectural Conservation

Author:   Alan Chandler ,  Michela Pace
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9780367078003


Pages:   252
Publication Date:   09 December 2019
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Alan Chandler ,  Michela Pace
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.929kg
ISBN:  

9780367078003


ISBN 10:   0367078007
Pages:   252
Publication Date:   09 December 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Overview and Book Structure 1. Introduction - Heritage conservation in a neoliberal culture 1.1 Heritage as narrative – The value of selection 1.2 History as an unfolding process – Style or substance 1.3 Frameworks for heritage, education and training 1.4 The professional landscape – How is heritage framed for the architects who frame heritage? 2. The Production of Heritage – Philosophies of fabrication 2.1 Palacio Pereira, Santiago, Chile – 2012/2019 2.2 Defining the strategy 2.3 After the strategy, the tactics 3. Place: material and the urban imaginary 3.1 Covent Garden 3.2 Battersea Power Station 4. The Memory of Surfaces – The physical nature of visual memory and its illusion 4.1 Artificial Realities: the Courtauld Institute East-Wing Biennial – 2016/17 4.2 Clandon Park and the ‘phoenix concept’ 5. History and Material Significance – Craft and a sense of place 5.1 St. Pancras Church, London – 2016 5.2 The Whitechapel Art Gallery, London 6. As Found – Tactics for a way out of the heritage trap 6.1 Conservation Plan and the mechanics of conservation empathy 6.2 Learning - from Landscape Archaeology and Art Conclusions Index

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The conservation of buildings is messy and complicated. The philosophically-led decisions that seemed easy to make in the office are almost always harder to implement when the project becomes a live building site. I welcome this book because it embraces those challenges and shows how a thoughtful architect can find practical solutions that remain true to the original design principles. It also demonstrates that the tenets of conservation philosophy proposed by William Morris remain valid today if we choose to care for our heritage in a way that puts people at its heart. - Sara Crofts, conservation architect and SPAB Scholar


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Alan Chandler is a founding director of the architectural practice Arts Lettres Techniques with Luisa Auletta, working consistently on the interface between contemporary design and conservation since 1993, when fabric formed concrete casts weighing several tonnes were taken from the portico of Hawksmoor's St George's Church in Bloomsbury to create a site-specific installation while studying at the Architectural Association. This early engagement with questioning material and heritage value has persisted, with expertise in conservation accreditation and award-winning projects in the UK and Chile maintaining a focus on how politics and cultural perception connect with material and philosophical conservation. Examining for the RIBA Conservation Register began at its inception in 2011, followed by membership of the RIBA Conservation Committee and Steering Group, has allowed a perspective on the culture of professionalism, the criticism of which in this book should be balanced with a genuine respect for the knowledge and commitment of many professionals within the field, and an acknowledgement that the RIBA has made a genuine investment into conservation practice, supported by dedicated and intelligent staff within the organisation. The aim of the dissection is to discover what is missing, not what is wrong. He is a reader in architecture and currently leads research in architecture, computing and engineering at the University of East London. Michela Pace is a researcher at the IUAV University of Venice in the field of urbanism; she has previously worked and collaborated with universities including UEL London, PoliTo Turin and PoliMi Milan, UH Hasselt and Tongji University Shanghai. She studied the rising centrality of the ’heritage’ rhetoric within processes of urban financialization worldwide, and the use of notions of memory, legacy, patrimony and tradition inside city marketing. Heritage, in particular, was observed in relation to real estate activities and the phenomena of land privatisation and gentrification in Western and Eastern global cities. At the same time, as an architect, she deepened her experience of community-based research, collaborating with a different spectrum of partners and clients for the making of local projects. These include local communities and schools, councils and policymakers, international NGOs, charitable foundations and private clients. Merging the observations of ‘heritage’ promotion and protection at the global and local scale has the ability to disclose those mechanisms able to promote an idea of city, and the language and the rules able to distribute it. What is at stake is not only the concept of past and the power of history, but also the collective ability to imagine alternative futures.

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