Miles Glendinning

The Conservation Movement: A History of Architectural Preservation (eBook, ePUB)

Antiquity to Modernity

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Shortlisted for the 2014 SAHGB Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion. Certainly, ancient structures have long been treated with care and reverence in many societies, including classical Rome and Greece. But only in modern Europe and America, in the last two centuries, has this care been elaborated and energised into a forceful, dynamic ideology: a 'Conservation Movement', infused with a sense of historical destiny and loss, that paradoxically shared many of the characteristics of Enlightenment modernity. Miles Glendinning's new book authoritatively presents, for the first time, 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 544
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136167010
• Artikelnr.: 47893640

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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

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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

Rezensionen

Miles Glendinning's new book significantly deepens our knowledge and appreciation of the conservation movement. In a critical, learned, deeply thoughtful and fast-paced narrative, Glendinning vividly relates the process of making, discovering and transforming heritage to the mainsprings of geopolitics and intellectual history. Focusing on the 20^th century, he wisely steers clear of normative judgments - lending clarity to his interpretation of conservation debates and rendering this volume extremely useful to both historians and conservation/design professionals. - Professor Randall Mason, Chair, Graduate Program in Historic Preservation, The University of Pennsylvania School of Design