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Time honored : a global view of architectural conservation : parameters, theory, & evolution of an ethos / John H. Stubbs ; foreword by Bernard M. Feilden ; with a contribution of images from the photo archive of the World Monuments Fund.

By: Stubbs, John H.
Contributor(s): World Monuments Fund (New York, N.Y.).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2009Description: xiii, 434 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.ISBN: 9780470260494; 0470260491.Subject(s): Architecture -- Conservation and restoration | Historic preservation -- PhilosophyOnline resources: Table of contents only
Contents:
Conserving history in changing contexts -- Introduction -- What is architectural conservation? -- What do we conserve? -- Why conserve buildings and sites? -- Who owns the past? -- History, historiography, and architectural conservation -- Problems, principles, and process -- Perils to built heritage -- Options for involvement -- Principles, charters, and ethics -- The conservation process -- Participants in architectural conservation -- Conservation of the built environment: an enduring concern -- Prehistory through the fourteenth century -- Fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries -- The forging of a discipline: the late eighteenth to early twentieth centuries -- Contemporary architectural conservation practice -- International activities and cooperation -- A multidimensional field for the twenty-first century -- A summary global tour of contemporary practice: challenges and solutions -- The past in the future.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [405]-416) and index.

Conserving history in changing contexts -- Introduction -- What is architectural conservation? -- What do we conserve? -- Why conserve buildings and sites? -- Who owns the past? -- History, historiography, and architectural conservation -- Problems, principles, and process -- Perils to built heritage -- Options for involvement -- Principles, charters, and ethics -- The conservation process -- Participants in architectural conservation -- Conservation of the built environment: an enduring concern -- Prehistory through the fourteenth century -- Fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries -- The forging of a discipline: the late eighteenth to early twentieth centuries -- Contemporary architectural conservation practice -- International activities and cooperation -- A multidimensional field for the twenty-first century -- A summary global tour of contemporary practice: challenges and solutions -- The past in the future.

B-29245/EDIMEH/04/05/2017

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