TY  - BOOK
AU  - Djabarouti,Johnathan
TI  - Critical built heritage practice and conservation: evolving perspectives 
T2  - Routledge research in architectural conservation and historic preservation
SN  - 9781032286075
AV  - NA105 .D59 2024
U1  - 720.103 D59 2024 23/eng/20230828
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Abingdon, Oxon
PB  - Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Conservation and restoration
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Architecture and society
N1  - Outgrowth of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Manchester Metropolitan University, 2021, under the title: The impact of intangible heritage on architectural and building conservation practices in the UK : a socio-material outlook; Includes bibliographical references and index; From materials to meanings -- Towards an intangible outlook -- Architectural conservation as a future-oriented practice
N2  - "Critical Built Heritage Practice and Conservation - Evolving Perspectives supports an alternative point of departure for engaging with the historic built environment, by critically questioning the legitimacy of dominant conservation concepts and methods that are often taken for granted within building conservation, architecture, and adaptive reuse. The meaning of heritage is changing. From pastness to presentness, from preservation to participation, and from tangible to intangible, heritage is increasingly understood as a dynamic, social, and intangible process across many disciplines. Consequently, the role and remit of the built heritage practitioner - and in particular the architectural conservationist - is becoming progressively complex and in need of a critical gaze. Is restoration really a falsehood from beginning to end? Should the condition of existing materials determine the conservation method? Is authenticity really an inherent quality within old buildings? By engaging with a critical interpretation of heritage, this book makes space for practitioners to consider the evolution of their own role within a rapidly changing context of built heritage practice. Reinforced by a shift in emphasis from materials to meanings, a 'socio-material outlook' is proposed which champions an enhanced focus on intangible heritage within the built heritage sector, whilst still acknowledging the physical condition of old buildings is a priority for many stakeholders. This book has been written with practitioners, students, and educators of architectural conservation in mind - although will also be of relevance to the broader built heritage industry; as well as academics, researchers, and heritage students with a passion for contemporary dialogues in heritage studies"--
ER  -