Facts of Heritage and Facts of Use: The Public's Understanding of Architectural Heritage

15 February 2006, LSE, Vera Anstey Room

Programme

• 1530h - Welcome by Prof Mary Morgan (LSE) and Introduction by Dr Simona Valeriani (LSE)
• 1545h - Prof Johannes Cramer (Technische Universitat Berlin) "History Sells! - History Sells?"
• 1630h - Tea / Coffee Break
• 1645h - Prof Wilfried Lipp (International Council on Monument and Sites, Austria) "The Winding Road of Architectural Heritage: From preservationist's ideology to economic reality" 
• 1730h - Discussion

About the Participants

Johannes Cramer

Johannes Cramer is Professor of Building and Urban History at the Technische Universität in Berlin. He is a leading expert in the field of Building Archaeology and has specialised for many years in the analysis and restoration of historic buildings, dealing directly with the presentation of artefacts to the public.

He recently edited a book addressing the question of the longing of the people for history and the role building archaeology should play in this context (Bauforschung - Eine kritische Revision. Historische Bauforschung zwischen Marketing und öffentlichem Abseits [Building archaeology- a critical revision. Building Archaeology between marketing and public offside], Berlin 2005).

Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Johannes Cramer
Fachgebiet Bau- und Stadtbaugeschichte
Technische Universität Berlin
Straße des 17. Juni 152, Sekr. A 22
10623 Berlin
Tel. +49 30 314 21946, Fax. 314 21947
http://baugeschichte.a.tu-berlin.de

Wilfried Lipp

Univ.-Doz. Dr Wilfried Lipp is the president of the Austrian National Committee of the International Council on Monuments and Sites, (ICOMOS Austria). He is also Director of the Austrian Federal Office for the Care of Monuments, department Ober Österreich, and Professor at the Paris-Lodron-Universität in Salzburg. This wide range of activities gives him an unusually wide perspective on the discipline, both from the theoretical point of view, and as regards the problems related with the public management of building heritage. Amongst other publishing activities he edited the book Denkmal - Werte - Gesellschaft. Zur Pluralität des Denkmalbegriffs [Monument- Values- Society. About the plurality of the definition of "monument"] (Frankfurt/New York 1993).

Univ.-Doz. Dr. Wilfried Lipp
Bundesdenkmalamt - Landeskonservator für OÖ.
A-4020 Linz, Rainerstraße 11
Telefon +43-732-664 421
Fax +43-732-664 421-33
E-Mail: ooe@bda.at

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