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Article: Modern matters: as one of the UK's emerging experts in Conservation Architecture, Geoff Rich was recently awarded a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust fellowship to study the conservation of Modern Architecture in India, the USA and Europe. What, he asks, are the key questions in this relatively new architectural discipline?
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- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- February 1, 2006
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The conservation of Modern architecture presents an immediate challenge throughout the world. Modern masterpieces are failing due to inherent design problems and changes in the economic and political contexts in which they now exist. Despite some excellent work by a few pioneers in the field around the world, increasing numbers of architects, owners and communities are struggling to conserve Modern architecture. From country to country, technical skills, commercial opportunity and public empathy for Modern buildings vary remarkably, as does the understanding and philosophical attitude towards building conservation. The conservation of Modern architecture ranges from ...
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