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E-book From Vernacular to World Heritage

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The ‘universal value’ of vernacular architectural heritage in the prestigious UNESCO World Heritage List, although more or less recognised and considered in the holistic dimension of their integration in-to exceptional cultural contexts, which are themselves listed, is still very limited as shown by the 11211properties inscribed on this list to date, in 2020. The tangible and intangible values of vernacular her-itage, and the exemplary nature they bear, with regard to the eco-responsibility of builders, for example their setting in situation, their anchorage to the ‘place’ (Norberg Schulz, 1981) constitute a valuable heritage that cannot be neglected, particularly in view of the now undisputed evidence of their rela-tionship to the resources available in the diversity of their environments. It concerns human resources: constructive cultures educated by the collective memory of knowledge and skills, the arts and crafts of construction and architecture, both popular or scholarly. Moreover, it also refers to physical resources: organic and geo-sourced materials, wood, straw and other plant fibres, earth and stone. But also, for their intelligent response to the constraints and potential of the sites, to the benefits and hazards of the climate, to natural risks (floods, fires, earthquakes). And yet these evidences are still too little acquired, although a broader adhesion of the societal thought converges to it.The vulnerability of vernacular habitat heritage, which has been exposed to massive destruction since the Industrial Revolution at the end of the 19th century, and then with the recent period of economic growth during the thirty ‘glorious decades’ (end of the 1940s to the beginning of the 1970), is guilty soci-etal blindness. Either this vulnerability is borne by commercial, economic and financial interests, leav-ing all room for the expansion of the contemporary city, ordering the destruction of historic islets (e.g. the Lilongs of Shanghai in China); or either it was induced by economic or climatic crises (e.g. several villages of Tierra de Campos in Spain, or elsewhere); or by an ideological nature (e.g. rural housing in Romania under Nicolae Ceausescu); or even in a conflict situation (the ancient historic cities of Syria (Damascus, Bosra, Aleppo) and the domed rural housing of the Aleppo region, and in a post-conflict situation, where the tabula rasa policy is enforced. Faced with such situations, despite the internation-al conventions of UNESCO (1954, 1970, 1972, 2003) constituting safeguards, and the recommenda-tions and charters of the ICOMOS International Scientific Committees, it is still very often difficult to intercede and to act for the protection of vernacular heritage, mainly habitat, since the populations are driven out or forced to abandon vernacular heritage and their habitat, in spite of themselves, thus ex-posing them to a slow destruction, for lack of maintenance and to the actions of their climatic environ-ments, or to looting. All the more so, as the value of this heritage is insufficiently recognised or wrongly considered as secondary, or only partially meeting the criteria and codes governing the possibility of a classification. As a result, there are too few vernacular architecture cultures that are listed as World Her-itage, or which can even only claim it. The prospect of a multiplied destruction of this heritage is there-fore irreparably programmed, and would constitute an immeasurable and irreplaceable loss of culture and history for humanity. An unacceptable denial.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

720.6 DIP f

Penerbit

Italy : Firenze University Press., 2020

Deskripsi Fisik

245 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9788855182935

Klasifikasi

720.6

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

Edisi

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Subjek

Management of Architecture

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