ARCH 4200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ise Grand Shrine, Venice Charter, Cultural Landscape
4 Apr 2016
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Cultural heritage: property of cultural signiicance designated for speciic values and guarded by legislaion (internaional, naional, provincial) Europe: evaluates buildings for heritage signiicance ater 100 years. Canada: evaluates buildings ater 40 years: we have younger heritage, people are more inclined here to tear down buildings and build new, so we iniiate protecion sooner. Venice charter (1964): a code of professional standards and an internaional framework for the conservaion and restoraion of ancient buildings (wiki) Types of heritage: physical/tangible, buildings, monuments, setlements, engineering works, arifacts, etc. Intangible: tradiions, folklore, language, etc, natural, cultural landscape, biodiversity, etc. Values: emoional (idenity, coninuity, symbolic and spiritual, cultural (historic, archaeological, architectural, , uses (funcion, ) Obtained by a consensus i. e. unesco whs, nhsc, fhbro ------- (cultural criteria, natural criteria, and criteria for places) Analyse and understand the site (history, qualiies, special relaionships, materials, etc. ) *values are captured in a statement of signiicance (sos) Heritage value: an importance which is embodied in its character-deining elements (cdes)
