Contents
Overview ix
Acknowledgements xv
1 Introduction: The fabrication of history. Heritage conservation in a capitalist culture 2
Approach 2
1.1 Heritage as narrative - the value of selection 3
1.2 History as an unfolding process - style or substance 7
1.3 Frameworks for heritage, education and training 13
1.4 The professional landscape - how is heritage framed for the architects who frame heritage? 16
Conclusion 21
2 The production of heritage: philosophies of fabrication 26
Approach 26
Glossary 28
2.1 Palacio Pereira, Santiago, Chile - questions of authenticity and sensitivity 26
The competition - November 2012 33
The award 34
The project 35
2.2 Defining the strategy 38
Lessons from Neues: a steer from the committee 38
Winning the competition without losing the building: April 2013 41
2.3 After the strategy, the tactics 64
Detailed correspondence (excerpts) 64
The value of documents 78
Lessons learned 79
3 Place: material and the urban imaginary 86
Approach 86
Glossary 90
3.1 Covent Garden 92
History is (not) what it used to be 99
3.2 Battersea Power Station 107
Heritage building 114
Lessons learned 118
4 The memory of surfaces: the physical nature of visual memory and its illusion 124
Approach 124
Glossary 126
4.1 Artificial Realities: Courtauld Institute East Wing Biennial 2016/17 128
A work 'of art as the art of work 134
4.2 Clandon Park and the 'phoenix concept' 143
The notion of misremembering 149
Lessons learned 151
5 History and material significance: craft and a sense of place 158
Approach 158
Glossary 160
5.1 St. Pancras Church, London 162
A statement of need 166
A statement of action 167
5.2 The Whitechapel Art Gallery, London 179
Tension between community and culture 183
Constant faade, shifting spaces, shifting content 187
Lessons learned 195
6 As found: tactics for a way out of the heritage trap 200
Approach 200
Glossary 202
6.1 Conservation Plan and the mechanics of conservation empathy 204
Ideologies - professionalism and economy 208
6.2 Learning - from landscape, archaeology and art 212
Speaking to people 215
Altab Ali Park, Whitechapel, London by MUF Architecture/Art LLP 2011 221
'True Value' by Theaster Gates, Fondazione Prada, Milan 2016 228
The People's Landscape, National Trust 231
Lessons learned 234
Conclusion 240
Index 248