Year: 1989
Publisher: Routledge, Londen - New York
Edition: 1st
Language: EN
Pages: 2(6 (X+246)
Condition: VG
Binding: SC
Fifteen years ago, Europe 's architectural heritage was under threat. In every country, good buildings from the past were being demolished to make way for (often) mediocre replacements. Whole towns were ravaged by an unholy alliance between greedy developers and ambitious politicians, and there was a general belief that new buildings were better than old. Over the fifteen years since European Architectural Heritage Year, the position has been transformed. Now the emphasis is on preservation and conservation of old buildings, and their intelligent adaptation to new uses. And in a bizarre reversal, old buildings are now too often assumed to have greater intrinsic merit than any new design. The wheel of public opinion has spun full-circle. This book, which accompanies the major exhibition sponsored by the Royal Fine Art Commission at the Royal Academy in Summer 1989, shows the changes that have taken place since 1975. David Pearce has been one of the most active exponents of preservation and building conservation, and has done much to foster the change in public attitudes. But he argues in this book that conservation should be a creative process, allowing users and architects to blend modern design with the old, and good new materials side by side with the traditional stone, brick, and wood. He reveals the imaginative power behind a great number of adapted buildings, from small apartments, through new museums and public buildings, to new 'palaces of commerce and business'. Profusely illustrated and fully documented, written with verve and enthusiasm, this book shows how conservation has been made to work, and suggests how the next decade can carry the process forward. - Contents Foreword by Lord St John of Fawsley Acknowledgements 1 After 1975: an introduction 2 The legal framework 3 Paying for conservation Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England; Monuments; Outstanding historie buildings; State aid for churches in use; Town scheme grants; Conservation areas; National Heritage Memorial Fund; Architectural Heritage Fund; Other public schemes 4 Inner-city renewal lntroduction; Glasgow; Liverpool 8; Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter; Nottingham's Lace Market; Billingsgate Market; Royal Victoria Patriotic Building, Wandsworth; St Pancras Chambers; Royal Agricultural Hall, lslington 5 Conservation in towns Introduction; Frome; Wirksworth; Calne 6 lndustrial monuments Introduction; Stroud textile mills; Saltaire; Liverpool's Albert Dock; London's Docklands: Tobacco Dock; New Concordia Wharf; Butler's Wharf and Courage Brewhouse; Gloucester docks; Chatham Dockyard; Battersea Power Station; Dunston Staithes; Ribblehead Viaduct; The heritage of railway architecture: Manchester's railway stations; Bath, Green Park Station; Brighton Station; Shrewsbury Station; Cambridge and Chester Stations 7 Looking af ter modern classics Introduction; Voysey House, Chiswick; Penguin Pool, London Zoo; Silver End, Essex; Hoover Factory, west London; Brynmawr, Blaenau Gwent 8 Country houses Introduction; Cliveden; Compton Verney; Dingley Hall; Gunton Park; The Hazells; Cullen House and Tyninghame; Callaly Castie; Castie Ashby; Brocket Hall; Calke Abbey 9 Rural buildings Introduction; Speke Hall; Barns: Fisher's Pond Barn, Eastleigh; Great Priory Barn, Panfield; Harmondsworth Manor Barn; Grange Barn, Coggeshall 10 Building in context Introduction; St Bartholemew's, Bristol; Puma Court, Spitalfields; Richmond Riverside; Bryanston School, Dorset; China Wharf; Winchester High Street; Thorncroft Manor and Henley Park, Surrey; Tancred's Ford, Surrey 11 High conservation Introduction; West front, Wells Cathedral; House of Lords ceiling; Brighton Pavilion; Alhambra Theatre, Bradford 12 Churches: a delicate balance Introduction; All Souis' , Haley Hill, Halifax; St Mark's, Silvertown; St Michael's, Derby; St John the Evangelist, Reading; St Andrew's, Wood Walton 13 The way ahead Generation gap; Victorian values; Antiquarian prejudice; Nostalgia as moneyspinner; A lost generation; The past is another country; The way forward.
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