The Conservation Movement: A History of Architectural Preservation: Antiquity to Modernity

ISBN-13: 9780415543224 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 544 str.

Miles Glendinning

Opis

Miles Glendinning's book authoritatively presents the entire history of architectural conservation, and traces its dramatic fluctuations in ideas and popularity, ending by questioning whether its recent international ascendancy can last indefinitely.

Spis treści

The Conservation Movement: Stepchild of Progress  Part1: Pre-1789 - Foundations of the Movement: Care for Old Buildings in the Pre-Modern Age  1. Harbingers of Heritage: Antiquity, Christendom, Renaissance  2. International Revolutions and National Heritages: 1789-1850  Part 2:1789-1914  - Growth of the Movement: First Modern Ideologies of Conservation  3. International Revolutions and National Heritages: 1789-1850  4. The Life-Force of Age: Restoration and Anti-Scrape, c.1850-1890  53 Militant Monuments: Nationalist Conservation Rivalries, 1890-1914  Part 3: 1914-1945 - Crisis of the Movement: Mass Heritage, Mass Destruction  6. Monument Wars: Devastation and Rebuilding: 1914-39  7. Total War and Cultural Bombing: 1939-45 Part 4: 1945-1989 - Heyday of the Movement: Parallel Narratives of Postwar Preservation  8. Parallel Lives: New and Old in the West, 1945-1968  9. From Counter-Culture to Control: Western Triumphs of Conservation, 1968-89  10. Heritage Complexities in the Socialist Bloc, 1945-1989  11. Charters and Conventions: The Internationalisation of Heritage, 1945-1989 Part 5: POST-1989 - The Contemporary Story  12. Heritage in the Age of Globalisation, post-1989

O autorze

Miles Glendinning is Professor of Architectural Conservation at the University of Edinburgh and Director of the Scottish Centre for Conservation Studies. He has published extensively on modernist and contemporary architecture and housing: his books include the award-winning Tower Block (with Stefan Muthesius), Modern Architect, on the life and times of Sir Robert Matthew, and Architecture’s Evil Empire, a polemical evaluation of contemporary ‘iconic modernism’. His current research projects include an in-depth investigation of mass housing in Hong Kong and Singapore.