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Flooded Pasts
Flooded Pasts examines a world
famous yet critically underexamined event-UNESCO's International
Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia (1960-80)-to show how the
project, its genealogy, and its aftermath not only propelled
archaeology into the postwar world but also helped to \"recolonize\"
it. In this book, William Carruthers asks how postwar
decolonization took shape and what role a colonial discipline like
archaeology-forged in the crucible of imperialism-played as the
\"new nations\" asserted themselves in the face of the global Cold
War.
As the Aswan High Dam became the centerpiece of Gamal Abdel
Nasser's Egyptian revolution, the Nubian campaign sought to salvage
and preserve ancient temples and archaeological sites from the new
barrage's floodwaters. Conducted in the neighboring regions of
Egyptian and Sudanese Nubia, the project built on years of Nubian
archaeological work conducted under British occupation and
influence. During that process, the campaign drew on the scientific
racism that guided those earlier surveys, helping to consign
Nubians themselves to state-led resettlement and modernization
programs, even as UNESCO created a picturesque archaeological
landscape fit for global media and tourist consumption.
Flooded Pasts describes how colonial archaeological and
anthropological practices-and particularly their archival and
documentary manifestations-created an ancient Nubia severed from
the region's population. As a result, the Nubian campaign not only
became fundamental to the creation of UNESCO's 1972 World Heritage
Convention but also exposed questions about the goals of
archaeology and heritage and whether the colonial origins of these
fields will ever be overcome.
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The historic urban landscape : managing heritage in an urban century
This book offers a comprehensive overview of the intellectual developments in urban conservation.The authors offer unique insights from UNESCO's World Heritage Centre and the book is richly illustrated with colour photographs.
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'Wien oder Salzburg?': late Sedlmayr as a symptom and cure
In Sedlmayr's case, such an approach promises some interesting and enlightening results if one applies his method of structural analysis of 'critical forms' to his own work. An interpreter should be involved in it not as a 'referee' but rather as a participant who knows that she/he can or will become an object of next interpretations.5 This also means that when she/he observes signs of unconscious processes (Freudian's 'primary' processes6), she/he has the right to see them as symptoms, speculate as to their reasons and even draw conclusions and make diagnoses The question is what exactly should be seen as the primary material for such hermeneutic 're-construction'? In this sense, decentralisation could be seen as either a conscious or unconscious strategy, and Salzburg was one of the escape points.12 It seems symptomatic that it is in Salzburg that the most controversial Schlosser's or maybe, after all, Dvorák's student - Hans Sedlmayr - 'rests in academic peace'. In turn, these four stages of art history are very similar to the four stages or levels of comprehending/interpreting a work of art, in Sedlmayr's version, in which the eschatological 'type' of meaning, implying disintegration and ruination, is also considered.26 However, significantly, disintegration is not the final stage: it is followed by new integration.
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The Politics of Heritage Management in Mali
The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Djenné, in modern day Mali, is exalted as an enduring wonder of the ancient African world by archaeologists, anthropologists, state officials, architects and travel writers. In this revealing study, the author critically examines how the politics of heritage management, conservation, and authenticity play essential roles in the construction of Djenné's past and its appropriation for contemporary purposes. Despite its great renown, the majority of local residents remain desperately poor. And while most are proud of their cultural heritage, they are often troubled by the limitations it places on their day to day living conditions. Joy argues for a more critical understanding of this paradox and urges us all to reconsider the moral and philosophical questions surrounding the ways in which we use the past in the present.
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Synergy of Geospatial Data from TLS and UAV for Heritage Building Information Modeling (HBIM)
Currently, Building Information Modeling (BIM) is increasingly entering the operational level in terms of creating a model for newly constructed facilities. For existing objects, and objects of Culture Heritage (CH), the creation of coherent and qualitative BIM models depends on the quality of the data constituting the basis for modelling. What’s more, BIM of CH is not only a challenge to obtain high-quality three-dimensional data, but also a time-consuming study of object documentation and photographic documentation in order to create a faithful library of parametric objects. In the article, the authors presented the synergy of spatial data with TLS and UAV as the basis for creating a BIM model for two CH objects. The aim of the article was to make such a synergy of TLS and UAV data that the geospatial database, developed for the needs of modelling historic objects in the HBIM trend, would have a specific amount of information without the frequently used redundancy. In principle, the acquired 3D database should be expressed in a global reference system with the degree of georeferencing accuracy for situational and altitude measurements and should be consistent to provide comprehensive information about the object. The analyses led to conclusions in which the authors assign superior importance to the accuracy of measurement information and the integration of individual data groups in the process of developing the HBIM model with the desired accuracy in opposition to the appropriate selection of the level of detail, which is usually assigned a superior role, which in turn results from the quality of the data geospatial modelling.
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Geotechnical Assessment of Foundation Stability for Preserving the Agrippa Monument at the Acropolis of Athens
This study focuses on the geotechnical evaluation of the foundation conditions of the Agrippa Monument at the Acropolis of Athens, aiming to propose interventions to improve stability and reduce associated risks. The assessment reveals highly uneven foundation conditions beneath the monument. A thorough collection of bibliographic references and geotechnical surveys was conducted, classifying geomaterials into engineering-geological units and evaluating critical parameters for geotechnical design. Geotechnical models were developed and 3D finite element analyses were performed. The qualitative evaluation of the foundation under static conditions indicates no immediate risk of failure, as no accelerated movement has been observed and the monument’s tilt remains well below critical values. Time-dependent settlements are not expected from any clay layers in the artificial fills. However, further soil compaction could occur due to seismic events, water action (causing erosion or voids), or changes in the monument’s weight or tilt under static conditions. The study also proposes instrumental monitoring, foundation soil improvement, and water management strategies to enhance the monument’s stability and mitigate potential risks.
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CONSERVATION ISSUES RELATED TO THE AVANT-CORPS OF KAROL POZNAŃSKI’S PALACE IN LODZ
The article presents a comprehensive approach to the conservation of the avant-corps with the winter garden of Karol Poznański’s palace in Lodz, a building of symbolic importance for the city. Based on historical analysis, in situ and laboratory tests and consultations with the “Marciniak & Witasiak Architekci” studio, the condition of the avant-corps before the renovation was determined and the causes of degradation were identified. The analysis of the composition of mortars and polychromes, carried out by Elżbieta Orłowska, M.A., allowed for reconstructing the original appearance. A revalorization strategy combining conservative methods with innovative solutions, emphasizing the importance of a multidisciplinary approach to the conservation of objects of high historical and cultural value, is described.
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Governing by Design
Governing by Designoffers a unique perspective on twentieth-century architectural history. It disputes the primacy placed on individuals in the design and planning process and instead looks to the larger influences of politics, culture, economics, and globalization to uncover the roots of how our built environment evolves.
In these chapters, historians offer their analysis on design as a vehicle for power and as a mediator of social currents. Power is defined through a variety of forms: modernization, obsolescence, technology, capital, ergonomics, biopolitics, and others. The chapters explore the diffusion of power through the establishment of norms and networks that frame human conduct, action, identity, and design. They follow design as it functions through the body, in the home, and at the state and international level.
Overall, Aggregate views the intersection of architecture with the human need for what Foucault termed \"governmentality\"-societal rules, structures, repetition, and protocols-as a way to provide security and tame risk. Here, the conjunction of power and the power of design reinforces governmentality and infuses a sense of social permanence despite the exceedingly fluid nature of societies and the disintegration of cultural memory in the modern era.
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Does more mean better? Remote-sensing data for monitoring sustainable redevelopment of a historical granary in Mydlniki, Kraków
The Post-2015 UN Development Agenda includes culture and links the preservation of cultural heritage (CH) to sustainable development. In principle, sustainable redevelopment of CH should preserve historical qualities and ensure the financial profitability of the asset. Still, being a construction process, it has to be under constant change monitoring. Bearing in mind the quality of data achieved by measurement systems, TLS instruments can be used to capture 3D spatial data for cultural heritage. The authors analyse the usefulness of TLS data as the spatial database for the redevelopment and functional reuse of a historical granary. Following measurements on various stages of the redevelopment of the CH asset, TLS data undergo principally simple and rapid analyses (shape analysis, determination of the pace and scope of redevelopment, detection of conservation effort results, HBIM) to improve decision-making capabilities within the project. Contrary to the universal approach, periodic CH redevelopment scanning involves the entire structure, not merely its most valuable heritage components. As a result, not only doesthe remote-sensing data acquisition for monitoring of sustainable redevelopment of cultural heritage record the state of the revitalised building, but it also demonstrates the potential of periodic measurements as the primary source of insight into the heritage asset and the directions and quality of changes it undergoes.
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