AR December 2019/January 2020 on New into Old + Preservation
By: Editors, A R
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Publisher: London EMAP Publishing Limited 2019Edition: 16 December 2019.Subject(s): ARCHITECTURE GENERAL (AR-GEN)Online resources: Click here
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Architectural reviewSummary: The architecture of the past might appear as a static and lasting thing; the roof over our heads and the solid floor beneath our feet assuring us that it will outlast at least our short human lives to remain or even become a thing of heritage for future generations. This issue, we look at acts of preservation, from the rituals performed and embedded with the contents of Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge to the continuous upkeep of the mud-formed buildings of Tangassogo village in Burkina Faso. The informal cycle of care that is instated in these buildings from their conception sits outside the institutional system of protection that governs the designation and control of European heritage structures, and these should be challenged in their own right: in the keynote, Jorge Otero-Pailos explores possibilities for experimentation in preservation practices, as well as the possibility of alternative heritage objects. However radical this might seem now, the status quo of preservation has been dependent on the experimental action of those who have come before: as Darran Anderson reminds us, ‘today’s rebels are, after all, tomorrow’s puritans’. William Morris, who stars in this issue’s Reputations, exclaimed ‘The past is not dead, it is living in us, and wil be alive in the future which we are now helping to make’.
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The architecture of the past might appear as a static and lasting thing; the roof over our heads and the solid floor beneath our feet assuring us that it will outlast at least our short human lives to remain or even become a thing of heritage for future generations. This issue, we look at acts of preservation, from the rituals performed and embedded with the contents of Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge to the continuous upkeep of the mud-formed buildings of Tangassogo village in Burkina Faso. The informal cycle of care that is instated in these buildings from their conception sits outside the institutional system of protection that governs the designation and control of European heritage structures, and these should be challenged in their own right: in the keynote, Jorge Otero-Pailos explores possibilities for experimentation in preservation practices, as well as the possibility of alternative heritage objects. However radical this might seem now, the status quo of preservation has been dependent on the experimental action of those who have come before: as Darran Anderson reminds us, ‘today’s rebels are, after all, tomorrow’s puritans’. William Morris, who stars in this issue’s Reputations, exclaimed ‘The past is not dead, it is living in us, and wil be alive in the future which we are now helping to make’.
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