Western and Eastern Building Conservation Philosophies: Perspectives on Permanence and Impermanence
| Autor: | Alan Mark Forster, Samantha Vettese, Derek S. Thomson, Kendall Richards, Nick Pilcher |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Visual Arts and Performing Arts
media_common.quotation_subject 0211 other engineering and technologies Perfection 020101 civil engineering 02 engineering and technology Conservation Western and Eastern 0201 civil engineering 021105 building & construction Architecture Sociology 690 Buildings TH Building construction Impossibility media_common Environmental ethics AI and Technologies Intervention (law) Technical performance Building philosophies Intangibility Languages Permanence and Impermanence Heuristics Impermanence |
| ISSN: | 1558-3058 1558-3066 |
| Popis: | In this conceptual paper, we illuminate Western building conservation philosophy practice with insights into Eastern conservation philosophy and associated aesthetic understanding. We frame dialogue recognising individual and societal perspectives on treatments to buildings that attempt to attain ‘permanence’ or ‘impermanence’ in form, fabric, and artefact. Although not expressly sharing origins, Eastern and Western conservation philosophies practically yield commensurate or quasi approaches in intervention. These similarities have not been notably articulated before, and reveal meaningful insights for decision heuristics and guidance fundamental for repair scheme design and intervention. Western, pattern-based views relating to philosophical reasons around the impossibility of perfection, or ‘correctness’ in physical building form resonate with Eastern views supported by Kiku Kiwari. Moreover, universality in acceptance of Western Patina and Eastern Wabi-Sabi, and Eastern Kintsugi and Western legible fabric repair convey overt signals of philosophies beyond technical performance. Moreover, we find Western bias towards ‘tangibility’, and greater appreciation of ‘intangibility’ in Eastern approaches that are culturally enriching and go beyond mere retention of fabric and architectural form, linking building memory with territory. We suggest potential cross-fertilisation of thinking to create an environment of greater cultural understanding of the motives, thoughts and practices in East and West. |
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