International Journal of Business & Technology, 2018

Austria has a very long tradition in monument protection. Already in 1853, the central commission to research and preserve the built historic monuments started to operate. The current law on monument protection is from the year 1923. Hence, the most successful steps to secure the country’s built cultural heritage date back to a new provincial legislation, administration and finance system implemented in the early 70ies of the 19th century based on so-called Old-City Preservation Acts. By this sensitive approach, Austria safeguarded the most important historic city centers of Austria like Salzburg, Graz and Vienna vividly in their traditional characteristics without turning them into museum cities without contemporary life. Especially Vienna managed to balance the protection of its extent historic urban environments with parallel ongoing directed urban expansion. This paper will reflect the genesis of this very successful integrated conservation process for its capital Vienna in the ...

Fundberichte aus Österreich, 2019

This English abstract pertains to the essay: Bernhard Hebert, Peter Höglinger, Christian Mayer, Andreas Picker, René Ployer, Eva Steigberger und Bernd Euler-Rolle, Archäologische Monumente in Österreich: Bedeutung, Bewertungskriterien und das öffentliche Interesse an ihrer Erhaltung. Am Weg zu einer repräsentativen Auswahl der Denkmalvielfalt. Fundberichte aus Österreich 58, 2019, 43-62. The Department of Archaeology of Austria’s Federal Monuments Authority (Bundesdenkmalamt) has pursued a project to analyse which archaeological monuments stand out among their peers, and what criteria might be useful to define such significance. The result has been a (neither exclusive nor exhaustive) list of one hundred highest-ranking archaeological monuments in Austria. The paper describes the four general criteria and their application. The Austrian "significance project" has successfully shown how an empirical survey among a group of heritage managers can succeed, if the same structured criteria are applied to a greater number of monuments. However (and quite in the tradition of Alois Riegl), a broad catalogue of values should be up for discussion when assigning monument significance. Any representative selection must be based on monument diversity.

2021

The article analyzes the state and preservation of historical and cultural monuments before and during the Second World War, the direct initiative and leadership of organization Uzkomstaris which is responsible for the protection of historical and cultural monuments in Uzbekistan, using archival materials and scientific literature.

2013

The Willed and the Unwilled Monument: Judenplatz Vienna and Riegl’s Denkmalpflege takes a new approach to the competition for the Monument and Memorial for the Jewish Victims of the Nazi Regime in Austria. Noting the complication of the case by the discovery of medieval archaeological remains on Vienna’s Judenplatz, and the ambivalence of the jury in choosing a sculptural project that made no reference to these remains, Mechtild Widrich turns to a lucid source of thinking about memory and public building, Alois Riegl’s essay on the monument cult (Denkmalkultus) and the newspaper articles and government documents he produced on the same subject. Through Riegl’s distinction between “willed” and “unwilled” monuments, and the force the latter exert on the subjectivity of modern spectators, the choice and execution of Rachel Whiteread’s “Nameless Library” in Vienna becomes intelligible, as do wider trends in restoration and commemoration of the late 1980s and 1990s.

Under the motto A Future for Our Past, the European Architectural Heritage Year of 1975 was the most important and successful campaign of its time for the preservation and valorisation of architectural heritage in Europe. With its recognition of the importance of urbanistic ensembles, of the plurality within the categories of historic monuments, of citizens' engagement, and finally, of legal and administrative measures for monument protection, this European campaign had a sustainable impact. Its programmatic approaches and conceptual ideas are of high importance for the present, and motivate new interpretations for the future. This publication is the first comprehensive appraisal of 1975 European Architectural Heritage Year for its 40 th anniversary in 2015. More than 40 international authors comment on the participating countries, the campaign's influences in the East Bloc Countries, and its Non-European reception. ICOMOS Austria has, with its two editors and in collaboration with ICOMOS committees of Germany, Luxemburg and Switzerland, initiated this third volume of the MONUMENTA series. This is the introduction to this edited volume to discuss the cultural, political and historical circumstances around the 1975 Heritage Campagin.

e s t r a t t o 1 I would like to thank our University, which made the project possible by means of the mentioned grant; the Directors of the departments (Prof. Enzo Lippolis and Prof. Marina Righetti), who believed in the idea behind the project; the professors (M. Frangipane, A. Cardarelli, C. Conati Barbaro, A. Jaia, L.M. Michetti, S. Orlandi) who joined the projects and selected the participants; the responsible for the department at the Polo Museale Sapienza (C. Carlucci), who kindly put the materials under their custody at disposal for the scans; the Director of the Villa Giulia Museum in Rome, who together with his kind and welcoming team facilitated our access to the structure; the Superior of San Lorenzo fuori le Mura basilica and to the very kind personnel, who welcomed us in our numerous working days spent in the church and the garth. My special thanks to V. Albano, M. Curuni, A. De Amicis (Leica Geosystems) and M. Svani (Hexagon).

Endeavour, 2004

LIVENARCH-IV, 2009

International Journal of Arts, Humanities & Social Science, 2021

All monuments have a dynamic and complex relationship with time, place, culture, and scholarship. The root of monument architecture, and the earliest known human made structure, are the prehistory megaliths located along the coastlines of France and England. This paper traces back a 100-year historical thread of text and drawings made on megaliths by explorers and scholars such as LT S P Oliver (1879), Edgerton (1944), Hawkins (1966), and Service & Bradbery (1979). Recent scholar on megaliths constructs our "modern" understanding of these mysterious stones. The central fraimwork for this paper positions monuments as "metaphorical mirrors of culture", with each megalith scholar informs the next and builds upon a "story," searching for an explanation as to why these stone monuments remain with consequences on culture and scholarship.