The Future of the past: Attitudes to conservation 1174-1974 - Hardcover

Fawcett, Jane (Ed.)

 
9780500232316: The Future of the past: Attitudes to conservation 1174-1974

Synopsis

Contents:
Introduction
The laws delays: conservationist legislation in the British Isles by Nikolaus Boulting
Scrape and Anti-scrape by Nikolaus Pevsner
A preservationist's progress by John Betjeman
What should we preserve? by Osbert Lancaster
A restoration tragedy: cathedrals in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by Jane Fawcett
Living with the past: Victorian alterations to country houses by Mark Girourd
Conservation in America: national character revealed by preservation by Robin Winks
Old sites and new buildings: the architect's point of view by Hugh Casson
Notes on the text
Index

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ISBN 10:  0823071847 ISBN 13:  9780823071845
Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications, Inc, 1976
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