Conservation today

David PEARCE

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Year: 1989
Publisher: Routledge, Londen - New York
Edition: 1st
Language: EN
Pages: 2(6 (X+246)
Condition: VG
Binding: SC

Fifteen years ago, Europe 's architectural heritage was under threat. In every country, good buildings from the past were being demolished to make way for (often) mediocre replacements. Whole towns were ravaged by an unholy alliance between greedy developers and ambitious politicians, and there was a general belief that new buildings were better than old. Over the fifteen years since European Architectural Heritage Year, the position has been transformed. Now the emphasis is on preservation and conservation of old buildings, and their intelligent adaptation to new uses. And in a bizarre reversal, old buildings are now too often assumed to have greater intrinsic merit than any new design. The wheel of public opinion has spun full-circle.

This book, which accompanies the major exhibition sponsored by the Royal Fine Art Commission at the Royal Academy in Summer 1989, shows the changes that have taken place since 1975. David Pearce has been one of the most active exponents of preservation and building conservation, and has done much to foster the change in public attitudes. But he argues in this book that conservation should be a creative process, allowing users and architects to blend modern design with the old, and good new materials side by side with the traditional stone, brick, and wood. He reveals the imaginative power behind a great number of adapted buildings, from small apartments, through new museums and public buildings, to new 'palaces of commerce and business'.

Profusely illustrated and fully documented, written with verve and enthusiasm, this book shows how conservation has been made to work, and suggests how the next decade can carry the process forward.

- Contents

Foreword by Lord St John of Fawsley

Acknowledgements

1 After 1975: an introduction

2 The legal framework

3 Paying for conservation

Historic Buildings and Monuments

Commission for England; Monuments;

Outstanding historie buildings; State aid

for churches in use; Town scheme grants;

Conservation areas; National Heritage

Memorial Fund; Architectural Heritage

Fund; Other public schemes

4 Inner-city renewal

lntroduction; Glasgow; Liverpool 8;

Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter;

Nottingham's Lace Market; Billingsgate

Market; Royal Victoria Patriotic

Building, Wandsworth; St Pancras

Chambers; Royal Agricultural Hall,

lslington

5 Conservation in towns

Introduction; Frome; Wirksworth; Calne

6 lndustrial monuments

Introduction; Stroud textile mills; Saltaire;

Liverpool's Albert Dock; London's

Docklands: Tobacco Dock; New

Concordia Wharf; Butler's Wharf and

Courage Brewhouse; Gloucester docks;

Chatham Dockyard; Battersea Power

Station; Dunston Staithes; Ribblehead

Viaduct; The heritage of railway

architecture: Manchester's railway

stations; Bath, Green Park Station;

Brighton Station; Shrewsbury Station;

Cambridge and Chester Stations

7 Looking af ter modern classics

Introduction; Voysey House, Chiswick;

Penguin Pool, London Zoo; Silver End,

Essex; Hoover Factory, west London;

Brynmawr, Blaenau Gwent

8 Country houses

Introduction; Cliveden; Compton Verney;

Dingley Hall; Gunton Park; The Hazells;

Cullen House and Tyninghame; Callaly

Castie; Castie Ashby; Brocket Hall; Calke

Abbey

9 Rural buildings

Introduction; Speke Hall; Barns: Fisher's

Pond Barn, Eastleigh; Great Priory Barn,

Panfield; Harmondsworth Manor Barn;

Grange Barn, Coggeshall

10 Building in context

Introduction; St Bartholemew's, Bristol;

Puma Court, Spitalfields; Richmond

Riverside; Bryanston School, Dorset;

China Wharf; Winchester High Street;

Thorncroft Manor and Henley Park,

Surrey; Tancred's Ford, Surrey

11 High conservation

Introduction; West front, Wells

Cathedral; House of Lords ceiling;

Brighton Pavilion; Alhambra Theatre,

Bradford

12 Churches: a delicate balance

Introduction; All Souis' , Haley Hill,

Halifax; St Mark's, Silvertown; St

Michael's, Derby; St John the Evangelist,

Reading; St Andrew's, Wood Walton

13 The way ahead

Generation gap; Victorian values;

Antiquarian prejudice; Nostalgia as moneyspinner;

A lost generation; The past is

another country; The way forward.
Notes.
Index.