Ku pluralistycznej filozofii konserwatorskiej XXI wieku

• Authors: Tomaszewski Andrzej

Title variants

EN

Towards a Pluralistic Conservation Philosophy of the Twenty First Century

• Languages of publication: EN PL

Abstracts

EN

Access to the UNESCO Convention on World Heritage, passed in 1972, by numerous states of the Far East and their declarations of cultural property to be placed on the World Heritage List, disclosed a profound divergence between two philosophical-methodological approaches to conservation and the protection of historical monuments. The European conception, based on the authenticity of substance, is derived in a straight line from the Roman-Christian cult of the holy relics, and is applied in the case of permanent building material and a mild climate. Only in those conditions, and with suitable conservation, can an architectural object last for centuries and millennia in its unaltered material structure. The Far Eastern conception is based exclusively on the authenticity of form, function and tradition, and originates from a belief in reincarnation. It is employed for unstable (soil, timber, bark, and bast) and in an extremel aggressive climate. Solely thanks to the principle of a systematic exchange of used elements or whole fragments of a building could the old architecture of the Far East, at Times boasting of a more than a thousand year-old lineage, survive to our times in a form close to the original. It must be stressed th a t both contradictory philosophies possess certain universal elements and made undeniable conmaterial tributions to the protection of cultural heritage. If during the discussion waged by the East and the West we opt for mutual respect for our philosophies, recognising their great although different merits for the protection of cultural property and, at the same time, indicate the fact that the development of science and technology permits and suggests the retention of original substance in all those instances when it is possible, then we shall be taking an important step towards a universal conception, albeit enmaterial dowed with a truly pluralistic character.

Keywords

PL

restauracja zabytków; konserwacja zabytków; państwowe służby konserwatorskie; interdyscyplinarność badań; Karta Wenecka; ICOMOS; autentyzm

• Publisher: Narodowy Instytut Dziedzictwa
• Journal: Ochrona Zabytków
• Year: 2000
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 1-4

Dates

published

2000

Contributors

author

Tomaszewski Andrzej

Identifiers

ISSN

0029-8247