Incompatible

Modern Built Heritage Conservation versus Value-Based Addition Design at Canada’s Capital Historic Sites

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ID21194574
AutoresHilary Grant (Carleton University, autor correspondente)
Ano2022
Volume13
Fascículo3
Páginas293-317
Data de publicação2022-07-03
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Historic Environment Policy & Practice (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1756-7505 • E-ISSN: 1756-7513
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17567505.2022.2113212
OpenAlexW4292833844
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas16

Heritage conservation’s modernist underpinnings limit engagement with heritage value, resulting in incompatible additions to historic places. A good example is the controversy surrounding the proposed addition to the Château Laurier National Historic Site in Ottawa, Canada, designed by Peter Clewes and approved by the City of Ottawa in February 2021. The addition’s defenders used the Standards and Guidelines for the Conservation of Historic Places in Canada’s modern dictums, particularly legibility and the supremacy of expert knowledge, to justify the Neo-Modernist addition against public outcry. This paper defends the public’s cries for a more fanciful, historicist addition. It argues that additions to historic places should be more than visually and physically compatible. Additions to heritage sites should be stylistically and intellectually compatible and engaged in dialogue with a site’s heritage values. It asks, what do new additions communicate about the original historic site? How do they help or hinder our understanding of the site’s social or historical significance? Designers and evaluators of new additions should ask themselves these questions. They should more closely consider the impact of new additions on historic places’ heritage values. Such consideration may reduce friction between practitioners and the wider public

Archaeology · Architectural engineering · Geography · 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage · Computer Science · Conservation Techniques and Studies · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Engineering

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