Library

Browse our extensive publications on heritage preservation issues.

Search

Date: 
Fall 2003

Sacred Light

Set in an idyllic landscape of verdant rolling hills along the banks of the River Suir, the ruins of Athassel Abbey stand as a romantic symbol of Ireland’s legendary past. Dedicated to St. Edmund, the abbey was founded in 1192 by William Fitz Aldem de Burgo, a Norman aristocrat, for the Augustinian...Read more
Country: 
United Kingdom
Related Projects
Athassel Abbey
Open PDF
Date: 
Fall 2003

A Place of Their Own

It is astonishing to find that in a nation where culture is so publicly revered, an ancient tradition could persist seemingly in isolation, in a world hidden from view. Such is the case with a devout group of Buddhist nuns who for more than a millennium have endowed and maintained a suite of...Read more
Country: 
Japan
Related Projects
Japanese Imperial Buddhist Convents
Open PDF
Date: 
Fall 2003

Erasing Old Beijing

The hutongs are being bull-dozed!” “The hutongs are being bull-dozed!” Why the hue and cry? What is a hutong? And why are these “whatevers” being plowed under? For more than six centuries, the hutongs—the thousands of small lanes and narrow passages lined with courtyard houses and commercial...Read more
Country: 
China
Related Projects
Juanqinzhai in the Qianlong Garden
Open PDF
Date: 
Fall 2003

Ghosts of Giringoe

In the far north of Scotland, the icy waters of the North Sea lash a forbidding promontory jutting into the Bay of Sinclair, 29 kilometers south of John o’ Groats. On a crooked finger of land stands the ruin of Castle Sinclair-Girnigoe, its sublime remains embraced by a sheer drop to the sea on the...Read more
Country: 
United Kingdom
Related Projects
Castle Sinclair Girnigoe
Open PDF
Date: 
Fall 2003

Hands to Work, Hearts to God

A traveler in the 1820s, having toured the prosperous Shaker village of Mount Lebanon in upstate New York, raved about the place in his memoirs: “Every thing bears the impress of labour, vigilance and skill.” Along the community’s busy fields and streets, he noted, “Not a weed, not a spot of filth...Read more
Country: 
United States
Related Projects
Mount Lebanon Shaker Village
Open PDF
Date: 
Fall 2003

Tales From the Gulag

Upon my arrival at Perm-36, I am surprised by how familiar it all seems. Four hours’ drive on a bad road from the barren city of Perm, at the western edge of the Urals, the prison camp—a collection of low buildings made of dull brick—is enveloped in barbed wire, wooden fencing, electric fencing,...Read more
Country: 
Russia
Related Projects
Perm-36
Open PDF
Date: 
Summer 2003

A Tale of Two Worlds

Built at the beginning of the nineteenth century, the former British Residency in Hyderabad is considered one of the earliest examples of classical revival architecture in India. The building, which at the time of publication is home to Osmania Women’s College, was constructed for Colonel...Read more
Country: 
India
Related Projects
Osmania Women's College
Open PDF
Date: 
2003

Conservation in the Shadow of Vesuvius: a Review of Best Practices/ Conservazione all’ombra del Vesuvio: un esame delle migliori pratiche

Following the efforts of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation and World Monuments Fund to preserve and present Insula V2 at Pompeii, these organizations hosted a conference with the Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompei in 2003. The fifty archaeologists, architects, conservators, foundation...Read more
Country: 
Italy
Related Projects
Ancient Pompeii
Open PDF
Date: 
Summer 2003

Ephemeral Isle

Cool air blasts across my face as I gaze out a broken window on our twin-engine airplane, bound for Gunungsitoli on the island of Nias, 125 kilometers off the west coast of Sumatra. Below, whitecaps frolic atop the deep azure waters of Mentawai Strait. Today, these very waves, spawned by strong...Read more
Country: 
Indonesia
Related Projects
Omo Hada
Open PDF
Date: 
Summer 2003

ICON, Summer 2003

Few monuments on Earth are as famed as the Great Wall of China. Few know the age-old monument as intimately as William Lindesay, a British long-distance runner who first encountered the wall in 1986. Arriving in Beijing with little more than a pair of running shoes and a backpack, Lindesay was...Read more
Open PDF

Pages