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Semes, Steven W.

Title The future of the past : a conservation ethic for architecture, urbanism, and historic preservation / Steven W. Semes.

Publication Info.	New York : W.W. Norton & Co., [2009]
	©2009

Copies

Location	Call No.	Status
Central Library - Circulating Collection	NA2543 .H55 S43 2009	Available
Harper Library - Circulating Collection	NA2543.H55 S43 2009	Available

Edition	First edition.
Description	272 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Note	"In association with the Institute of Classical Architecture and Classical America."
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-260) and index.
Contents	New and old architecture together -- The principles of traditional architecture -- How traditional architecture works -- The modernist paradigm -- A brief history of preservation philosophy -- Historicism and the search for an architecture of our time -- Preservation after historicism -- Literal replication -- Invention within a style -- Abstract reference -- Intentional opposition -- A conservation ethic.
Subject	Architecture and history.
	Architecture -- Psychological aspects.
	Historic preservation.
	Architecture -- Conservation and restoration -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Local Subject	RCL TITLE.
Added Author	Institute of Classical Architecture and Classical America.
Added Title	Conservation ethic for architecture, urbanism, and historic preservation
ISBN	0393732444 (hardcover)