C O N T E X T 9 7 : N O V E M B E R 2 0 0 6 Context Cover: The turrets of Solovki Monastery. See p30. The first two thousand years of globalisation Editorial Briefing 2 Out of Context 3 TheWriter’s Voice 4 Periodically 5 Conservation staffing survey 7 Legal Briefing Charles Mynors 8 Supporting Columns Brian Morton 14 Heritage Under Threat inquiry Bob Kindred 16 Urban conservation in an age of globalisation Dennis Rodwell 18 The lime spectrum Ian Brocklebank 21 Japan and its industrial heritage John Hinchcliffe 25 Conservation in the north of Russia Mike Clarke 30 Time for Perm to discover its heritage Robert Parkinson 33 Conservation training at Banffy Castle David Baxter 37 Notes from the chair 40 Director’s cut 41 Membership notes 42 Vox pop 42 Book reviews 44 Products and services 45 The Institute of historic building conservation www.ihbc.org.uk Registered as a Charity Number 1061593. Company Limited by Guarantee. Registered in England Number 3333780. Registered Office: 3 Stafford Road,TunbridgeWells, Kent TN2 4QZ. IHBC Officers President David Lovie email [email protected] Chairman JohnYates email [email protected] Vice Chair Dave Chetwyn email [email protected] Secretary Richard Morrice email [email protected] Treasurer Michael Knights email [email protected] Membership Secretary Mike Lea email [email protected] Consultations Secretary Karen Holyoake email [email protected] Education Secretary John Preston email [email protected] Publicity Secretary vacant email [email protected] Law & Practice Coordinator vacant email [email protected] Director Seán O’Reilly email [email protected] Projects Officer Fiona newton email [email protected] IHBC Committee Chairs Policy Dave Chetwyn email [email protected] Membership & Ethics Mike Lea email [email protected] Finance & Resources Richard Morrice email [email protected] Education John Preston email [email protected] Communications & Outreach Mike Brown email [email protected] Branch Officers North John Pendlebury Tel 0191 284 2119 NorthWest Anthony Blacklay Tel 01270 610050 Yorkshire Keith Knight Tel 01904 658482 West Midlands Karen Holyoake Tel 01384 826891 East Midlands vacant South Gill Butter Tel 02380 285324 SouthWest Colin Ellis Tel 01305 838334 East Anglia Pippa Colchester Tel 01245 437337 South East David Kincaid Tel 01227 862185 London David McDonald Tel 020 8881 6724 Scotland Charles Strang Tel 01835 822560 Wales Nathan Blanchard Tel 01285 642428 Northern Ireland Sharon BrownTel 028 9754 3087 Republic of Ireland Bernard DeeTel 00353 1 873 7226 Business Office Jubilee House, High Street, Tisbury, Wiltshire SP3 6HA England Tel 01747 873133 Fax 01747 871718 email [email protected] The press greeted the Prince of Wales’ decision to buy a house in a remote Transylvanian village (p4) with a variety of interpretations.Was he treating rural poverty as a game, like Marie Antoinette? Was he escaping to the last place in Europe where a prince is treated with deference? Or was he celebrating – and preparing to learn from – older, more sustainable ways of living and building? For the IHBC, working in that corner of Romania offers (in addition to the chance to step back in history) an opportunity to share skills and promote conservation in a place whose twentiethcentury history reflected politics very different to ours. (David Baxter describes the IHBC’s work with the Built Heritage Conservation Training Centre in Transylvania on p37). But above all, international experience gives us a wider perspective. Yes, there really is a world beyond THIs, SDDs and LDFs, however much the immediate pressures of work may encourage us to forget it.We can learn from working with people who have very different experience, but who seem destined to share a globalised future with us. This issue of Context highlights some of that experience. John Hinchcliffe (p25) finds a cultural exchange visit to Japan to be an opportunity to promote the conservation of industrial heritage and to strengthen a network of contacts. Mike Clarke (p30) follows in the steps of monks and prisoners to the north of Russia, where archives can tell us some things we have forgotten about our own history. Robert Parkinson (p33) sees lessons for the historic Russian city of Perm – facing pressures to modernise itself – in the experience of its English twin city. As JohnYates notes (p40), the lack of connections in policy and practice in this country does not reflect the nature of the historic environment itself. European culture is very much joined up, and no part of it more so than our buildings. That has been the case ever since the process of globalisation began – when, a couple of thousand years ago, the first travellers brought with them experience of how people in other places built. Institute ofHistoricBuildingConservation No 97 November 2006 International themes from Japan, Romania and Russia
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