Incompatible
Modern Built Heritage Conservation versus Value-Based Addition Design at Canada’s Capital Historic Sites
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21194574 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hilary Grant (Carleton University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 293-317 |
| Publication date | 2022-07-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Historic Environment Policy & Practice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1756-7505 • E-ISSN: 1756-7513 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17567505.2022.2113212 |
| OpenAlex | W4292833844 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 16 |
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
A Geography of Heritage
Uses of Heritage
The Conservation Movement
The search for the meaning of ‘compatibility’ between new construction and heritage in historic areas
Distinguishing new architecture from old
Moving Beyond a Values-Based Approach to Heritage Conservation
Architectural compatibility beyond the eye of the beholder
Discussing strategy in heritage conservation
The Scope and Definitions of Heritage
The Utility of Discourse Analysis to Heritage Studies
Towards a holistic approach to heritage values
Nostalgia and heritage
Western hegemony in archaeological heritage management
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |