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The funds of the Swiss-Polish Cooperation Programme were used to establish and strengthen contacts between Swiss and Polish regional and local authorities. Priority II of the Partnership Fund was aimed at supporting selected activities whose purpose was to transfer knowledge and best practices from Swiss to Polish local governments as regards: environmental protection, energy efficiency, tourism, cross-border cooperation, social and cultural activities. The im-plementation of the projects has enabled Polish local governments to: find new partners, create networks of new contacts, gain useful knowledge and experience, solve issues of local democracy, and transpose the new solutions to the Polish conditions.
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Files containing projects, plans, sketches and draughts by little known or even forgotten 19th century architects have turned up, examining the Riga City Council Master Builder and Chief Architect Johann Daniel Felsko's (1813-1902) creative legacy and searching for his projects at the Latvian State History Archive Vidzeme Province Building Board collection No. 10. Altogether works by 24 architects, engineers and draughtsmen have been found in this collection. The overview of already known and newly discovered architects' activities is disproportionate; some draughts or their copies have survived in fragments, in other cases correspondence on building licences testifies to construction activities. Projects mentioned in this article for the most part relate to the period from 1852 to 1865. They give an insight into construction history of Riga as well as Cesis, Limbazi and Dorpat (now Tartu in Estonia). The material is complemented by particular reconstruction and new construction projects for buildings around Riga and Cesis. The 1850s are commonly regarded as a total stagnation period in the history of Latvian architecture and construction, as Crimean War influenced economic life in Riga as well. It is possible that projects discovered in the collection No. 10 will make one to reconsider this conclusion. Plans, draughts and sketches of dwelling houses from the 1860s allow tracing gradual replacement of wooden buildings with stone edifices. But projects from the 1870s-1890s are rarely found there. These projects are especially important because buildings constructed according to them have not always survived till our days, many perished during the 20th century wars. Their visual reconstruction can significantly add to or even alter the overall scene of the 19th century architecture.
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The recently observed disturbing degradation of our architectural heritage is the outcome not only of an unsuitable approach of the investors, but also the insufficient conservation knowledge of the projects' authors and the absence of appropriate standards for preparing fitting documentation. The presented article is an attempt at creating foundations for architectural-conservation projects and conservation undertakings. It must be stressed that the existing standards for designing new constructions do not encompass the conservation specificity of monuments of architecture, even though the range of the statute on Construction Law embraces also non-movable monuments, i.e. those of architecture. Additional emphasis is due to the fact that projects relating to monuments of architecture call for an approach divergent from that pertaining to designing new buildings. This difference appears already at the stage of pre-project initiatives, which must involve a full historical reconnaissance of a given monument and its assessment, as well as a definition of the state of preservation and causes of damage; complex conclusions and conservation directives comprise the end stage. From the very onset, pre-project efforts must engage all specialists working on the documentation. They should include authors of historical studies and conservators-restorers of works of art. Contemporary construction does not always require an initial project, which in the case of historical monuments is obligatory and often should appear in several versions so as to select the best possible conservation conception. A construction-conservation project differs essentially from a project needed only for obtaining a construction permission. The architectural-conservation part of the project must resolve all the existing problems, and thus every detail must be designed as part of the execution drawings. This stage has to involve the origin of all conservation projects of architectural details and the outfitting, planned by the conservator-restorer of works of art. The realisation must also entail the 'auteur' supervision of all the participants of the preparation of the pre-project and project documentation (this obligation should never depend on the good will of the investor). In addition, architectural studies must be continued. Realisation work should end with post-execution documentation, devised separately for each specialisation. It is postulated that the post-execution documentation be prepared by the architectural designers (naturally, for a suitable fee), since, as rule, the executor is unprepared and the realisation changes, compared to the project, are extensive.
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