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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

Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons

c2009

xiii, 434 p. ill.

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

World Monuments Fund (New York, N.Y.) , Feilden, Bernard M., Foreword writer

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