Keywords
Architectural heritage
Restoration project
Functional adaptation
Architectural restorer
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Abstract
The need to deal seriously with the problems of building cities has generated another no less urgent need, that is, to give sense to the tasks that befall to architects specialized in conservation and restoration, their role being essential role in this process. In the light of increasing knowledge about the built heritage, the role of their work as a factor of individual and social development, as technicians in the historical reconstruction of buildings, or as experts in conservation of works of architectural value, turns out to be somewhat insufficient. An urgent discussion must take place about the role of conservation in existing and future cities. Hereby are some reflections about the usefulness of the task of specialists, on the various ways to approach it, and about the ample suspicions it raises due to its extraneous origin, notwithstanding the essential need of keeping control of existing buildings. With few exceptions, architectural or urban projects, either of small or great scale have not incorporated considerations about the built heritage in its full dimension. Its conservation, therfore depends on the degree of its isolation from communal life, predetermined in current theories about the subject.Apuntes is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
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