Heritage: contemporary questions

Duration

40h Th

Number of credits

Lecturer

Claudine Houbart

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

This seminar addresses current issues raised by the protection, conservation, restoration and adaptive reuse of architectural heritage in the broadest sense, going beyond administrative categories that do not reflect the typological and chronological diversity of the properties that the community intends to pass on to future generations today.

The seminar is broken down into themes, illustrated by examples, giving rise to discussions and debates with participation of students. It relates to works of some faculty researchers, with their active participation. 

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

• knowledge of current debates on heritage valorisation;
• development of a critical spirit towards interventions on the existing;
• integration of knowledge into restoration or adaptive reuse projects. 

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

The theory and history of architecture courses of the baccalaureate cycle as well as the course about intervention principles on existing architecture. 

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Seminars involving ex-cathedra courses and active student participation. 

Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)

Face-to-face course


Additional information:

The sessions are organised face-to-face as long as health conditions allow it. 

Recommended or required readings

Erica Avrami, Randall Mason, Marta de la Torre, éd., Values and Heritage Conservation. Los Angeles: The Getty Conservaion Institute, 2000.
Erica Avrami, Susan MacDonald, Randall Mason & David Myers. Values in heritage management. Emerging approaches and research directions. Los Angeles: The Getty Conservation Institute, 2019.
Ségolène Bergeon-Langle & Georges Brunel. La restauration des oeuvres d'art. Vade-mecum en quelques mots. Paris: Hermann, 2014.
Françoise Choay. Le patrimoine en questions. Anthologie pour un combat. Paris: Seuil, 2009.
Wim Denslagen. Architectural restoration in Western Europe: controversy and continuity. Amsterdam: Architectura & Natura Press, 1984.
Miles Glendinning. The conservation movement. A history of architectural preservation. Antiquity to modernity. London and New-York: Routledge, 2013.
Christoph Grafe & Tim Rienlets. Umbaukultur. The architecture of altering. Dortmund: Verlag Kettler, 2020.
Jukka Jokilehto. A history of architectural conservation. Second edition. London and New York: Routledge, 2018.
Benjamin Mouton. Sens et renaissance du patrimoine architectural. Paris: Editions des Cendres, 2018.
Salvador Munos-Vinas. Contemporary theory of conservation. London and New-York: Routledge, 2005.
Bie Plevoets & Koenraad Van Cleempoel. Adaptive reuse of the built heritage. Concepts and cases of an emerginig discipline. London and New-York: Routledge, 2019.
Francis Rambert, Marie Colombet & Christine Carboni (dir.). Un bâtiment, combien de vies? La transformation comme acte de création. Paris: CIté de l'architecture et du patrimoine, 2015.
Alois Riegl. Le culte moderne des monuments. Son essence et sa genèse. Paris: Seuil, 1984 (1903). 
Nicholas Stanley-Price, M. Kirby Talley Jr., Alessandra Melucco Vaccaro (dir.), Historical and philosophical issues in the conservation of cultural heritage. Los Angeles: The Getty conservation institute, 1996. 
Liliane Wong. Adaptive reuse. Extending the lives of buildings. Bâle: Birkhauser, 2017.
The images and reference texts of the ex-cathedra courses will be transmitted on the course website

Written work / report

Continuous assessment


Additional information:

Punctual exercises and written work.

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

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Contacts

c.houbart@uliege.be

Association of one or more MOOCs

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