Narrative Theory in Conservation: Change and Living Buildings

ISBN-13: 9781032173122 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 244 str.

Nigel Walter

Opis

Narrative Theory in Conservation engages with conservation, heritage studies and architecture approaches to historic buildings, offering a synthesis of the best of each, and demonstrating that conservation is capable of developing a complementary, but distinct, theoretical position of its own.

Spis treści

1. Context: people and change in conservation

2. Modernity: conservation, discontinuity, and the past

Case Study: Carlo Scarpa, William Morris, and the Castelvecchio, Verona

3. People: community, language, and power

Case Study: St Alkmund, Duffield, and the ecclesiastical exemption

4. Tradition: change and continuity

5. Narrative: time, history, and what happens next

6. Application: the narrative approach to conservation

Case Study: The SCARAB Manifesto

7. Conclusion: conservation ‘as if people mattered’

O autorze

Nigel Walter is a Specialist Conservation Architect based in Cambridge, UK, a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and a member of two ICOMOS International Scientific Committees. He specialises in living heritage, combining practice with research, and holds a PhD in conservation of historic buildings.