SCCS masterclass 2014 series

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5.30pm Main Lecture Theatre, Edinburgh College of Art, Lauriston Place, EH3 9DF

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HISTORIC SCOTLAND 23RD

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Main Lecture Theatre, Edinburgh College of Art, Lauriston Place, EH3 9DF The talks are followed by a drinks and nibbles reception.

WARWICK B A L L EASTERN APPROACHES THURSDAY

16TH

JANUARY

Conservation, Tourism and the Invention of Heritage

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C H R I S MCGREGOR THURSDAY

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JANUARY

Stanley Mills – Past to the Future

SUSANNA W A D E MARTINS UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA

L A U R A FERNANDEZ GONZALEZ

THURSDAY

THURSDAY

30TH

JANUARY

Britain‘s Historic Farm Buildings – do they have a future?

THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH 06TH

FEBRUARY

Imagining the Past? Re-creating Renaissance Iberia: Possibilities and challenges of virtual heritage visualisation.

THEODORE P R U D O N

GEOFFREY S T E L L

GEOFFREY CLIFTON

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, U.S.A.

BUILDINGS HISTORIAN

STRUCTURAL ENGINEER

THURSDAY

THURSDAY

THURSDAY

13TH

FEBRUARY

20TH

FEBRUARY

27TH

FEBRUARY

The Conservation of the Cathedrals of Commerce

Recording, Designating and Conserving Scotland’s 20th-Century Wartime Remains

Cathedral collapses and failures over the centuries

CRISTINA GONZALEZL O N G O

P O U L SVERRILD

FRANCISCO RODRIGUEZ DE PARTEARROYO

UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE

MUSEUM OF SUBURBIA, DENMARK

THURSDAY

THURSDAY

06TH

MARCH

Conservation by Design: Queensberry House in Edinburgh

13TH

ARQUIMÁTICA, SPAIN MARCH

Danish listing practices and the heritage of the welfare state

THURSDAY,

20TH

MARCH

The restoration and rehabilitation of Palacio Cibeles, Madrid

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THURSDAY, 16TH OF JANUARY 5.30pm Main Lecture Theatre, Edinburgh College of Art, Lauriston Place, EH3 9DF

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CONSERVATION, TOURISM AND THE INVENTION OF HERITAGE WARWICK BALL (EASTERN APPROACHES) ARCHITECTURAL CONSERVATION MASTERCLASS organised jointly by the Scottish Centre for Conservation Studies and the Alwaleed Centre The lecture will be about how the pressures of tourism on the one hand and politics on the other have combined to present distorted versions of many countries’ pasts. Examples will be drawn mainly from the Middle East and the former Soviet Union.

Warwick Ball is a Near Eastern archaeologist and author who spent over twenty-five years carrying out excavations, architectural studies and monumental restoration throughout the Middle East and adjacent regions, having lived, worked and traveled in most countries between the Mediterranean and China. He excavated in Iran, Libya, Ethiopia, Afghanistan (where he was Acting Director of the British Institute of Afghan Studies), Jordan, and Iraq (where he was Director of Excavations with the British School of Archaeology in Iraq). Warwick is currently director of Eastern Approaches, a special-interest travel company that offers small group tours of cultural and historical interest.

Author of numerous books and articles on the history and archaeology of the region.

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THURSDAY, 23RD OF JANUARY 5.30pm Main Lecture Theatre, Edinburgh College of Art, Lauriston Place, EH3 9DF

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STANLEY MILLS – PAST TO THE FUTURE CHRISTOPHER MCGREGOR (HISTORIC SCOTLAND) ARCHITECTURAL CONSERVATION MASTERCLASS organised jointly by the Scottish Centre for Conservation Studies and EUROPA NOSTRA UK Stanley Mills was on the brink of being lost. With no viable future demolition was the only solution offered by the developer. This is the story of the regeneration of one of Scotland’s most significant Industrial heritage sites. The restoration and conversion of Stanley Mills in Perthshire won the European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage/Europa Nostra Award in 2009.

Christopher McGregor is an Architect by profession and was project manager for the Stanley Mills project. At that time he was the Regional Architect for Central Scotland and now is head of the Major Projects and the Digital Recording teams of Historic Scotland.

The Masterclass will be chaired by Dr Lester Borley CBE, a former Chairman of Europa Nostra UK.

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SUSANNA WADE MARTINS THURSDAY, 30TH OF JANUARY 5.30pm Main Lecture Theatre, Edinburgh College of Art, Lauriston Place, EH3 9DF

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FARMS IN A LANDSCAPE: Britain‘s Historic Farm Buildings – do they have a future?

SUSANNA WADE MARTINS (UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA) Susanna Wade Martins is an Honourary Research Associate at the University of East Anglia, Norwich with a special interest in agricultural history and associated landscapes and buildings. She worked on the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historic Monuments’ Scottish Farm Building Survey as well as undertaking a survey of Model Farms for English Heritage.

The Masterclass will look at the development of farm building design since about 1700 and consider the buildings within their farming landscapes. It will concentrate on the buildings as evidence of farming change and attempt an evaluation of their landscape and historic importance and thus the case for their conservation.

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SUSANNA WADE MARTINS THURSDAY, 30TH OF JANUARY 5.30pm Main Lecture Theatre, Edinburgh College of Art, Lauriston Place, EH3 9DF

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FARMS IN A LANDSCAPE: Britain‘s Historic Farm Buildings – do they have a future?

SUSANNA WADE MARTINS (UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA) Susanna Wade Martins is an Honourary Research Associate at the University of East Anglia, Norwich with a special interest in agricultural history and associated landscapes and buildings. She worked on the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historic Monuments’ Scottish Farm Building Survey as well as undertaking a survey of Model Farms for English Heritage.

The Masterclass will look at the development of farm building design since about 1700 and consider the buildings within their farming landscapes. It will concentrate on the buildings as evidence of farming change and attempt an evaluation of their landscape and historic importance and thus the case for their conservation.

BOOKINGS: www.epay.ed.ac.uk

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LAURA FERNANDEZ GONZALEZ THURSDAY, 06TH OF FEBRUARY 5.30pm Main Lecture Theatre, Edinburgh College of Art, Lauriston Place, EH3 9DF

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IMAGINING THE PAST? Re-creating Renaissance Iberia: Possibilities and challenges of virtual heritage visualisation.

LAURA FERNANDEZ GONZALEZ THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH Laura Fernandez Gonzalez is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Architectural History at the University of Edinburgh. Her general interest lies in the fields of global art/architectural and urban history, conservation, and virtual heritage visualization. Her research focuses particularly in the Renaissance and early modern Luso-Hispanic world.

In recent years there has been an increasing interest in Virtual Heritage Visualisation. This interdisciplinary field is transforming our way of understanding artistic, architectural, archaeological and urban historical conservation and display. This paper explores the potential and challenges that the visual representation of historical data poses for historical research. To this end, the lecture will examine three projects focused in early modern Madrid and Lisbon.

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THURSDAY, 13TH OF FEBRUARY 5.30pm Main Lecture Theatre, Edinburgh College of Art, Lauriston Place, EH3 9DF

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THE CONSERVATION OF THE CATHEDRALS OF COMMERCE THEODORE PRUDON COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, U.S.A. The first half of the twentieth century saw the design and construction of many high-rise office structures. One of these, the Woolworth Building, was quickly dubbed the ‘Cathedral of Commerce’. This building typology, which evolved from its earlier nineteenth century predecessors, also came with new materials, technologies and construction practices. Now decades later these buildings have become historic, and deserving of conservation – a development which is challenging conventional philosophies, practices and techniques.

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THURSDAY, 20TH OF FEBRUARY 5.30pm Main Lecture Theatre, Edinburgh College of Art, Lauriston Place, EH3 9DF

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RECORDING, DESIGNATING AND CONSERVING SCOTLAND’S 20TH-CENTURY WARTIME REMAINS GEOFFREY STELL BUILDINGS HISTORIAN A buildings historian with specialist interests in Scottish castles, fortifications and urban architecture, Geoffrey Stell was formerly Head of Architecture at RCAHMS, and is now an historic buildings consultant, tutor, and part-time lecturer.

Although much was removed in the post-war era, sufficient 20th-century wartime remains survive to pose special challenges to present-day heritage agencies. Assessing such utilitarian structures demands approaches which respect the military strategy that gave rise to them and which reflect the three main and inter-related physical theatres in which warfare was conducted and defences were organised, that is, by land, sea and air. This talk will examine some of these issues in relation to Scapa Flow, Orkney, and the Forth estuary, two of the most strategically significant zones of wartime Britain.

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CRISTINA GONZÁLEZ-LONGO THURSDAY, 6TH OF MARCH 5.30pm Main Lecture Theatre, Edinburgh College of Art, Lauriston Place, EH3 9DF

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CONSERVATION BY DESIGN: Queensberry House in Edinburgh CRISTINA GONZÁLEZ-LONGO (UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE) Queensberry House was at the end of 17th century the finest Town House in Scotland, after James Smith’s transformation of the previous building in the site. By 1997, when the building became part of the new Scottish Parliament complex, its fine architecture was almost unrecognisable due to two centuries of unsympathetic design and aggressive changes. This is the first hand history of its conservation and conversion, carried out between 2001-2004, in the middle of one of the most controversial new buildings of Scotland. The talk will discuss the process followed, from receiving an almost empty masonry shell, until the modern interpretation of its original proportions and layout.

This building has always had a major role in Scottish public life and it is essential to frame its architectural design and conservation within a contemporary international context.

Cristina González-Longo RIBA SCA RIAS AFHEA is an architect and Lecturer in Architectural Heritage Conservation and Community Identity at the Department of Architecture of the University of Strathclyde, where she leads the Architectural Design and Conservation Unit (ADCRU). She has over 15 years’ experience as Chartered architect both in UK and Spain, running her own practice, Cristina GonzalezLongo Architect (CG-LA). She was the project architect of Queensberry House while working for RMJM. Cristina has had a central role in taking decisions concerning historic buildings of outstanding national importance and wide experience in leading the design, management and procurement of award winning architectural projects (both conservation and new build), including Bowbridge Primary School in Newark (RICS Sustainability Award 2009).

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THURSDAY, 27TH OF FEBRUARY 5.30pm Main Lecture Theatre, Edinburgh College of Art, Lauriston Place, EH3 9DF

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CATHEDRAL COLLAPSES AND FAILURES OVER THE CENTURIES GEOFFREY CLIFTON (STRUCTURAL ENGINEER) Geoff Clifton is a Conservation registered engineer and a consultant with Ramboll. Most of his career was spent with Gifford and became chairman in 1992. He is the engineer to Wells and Lincoln cathedral and is the structural engineer on the Cathedral fabric commission for England and also for the English Heritage advisory group.

Cathedral collapses and failures over the centuries This talk will look at the historical records of some of the more spectacular collapses of towers and spires that have taken place in Cathedrals and speculating upon the reasons for these failures. It will then continue to more modern times and look at some of the major interventions that took place in the last century to prevent collapses rather than waiting until they happened!

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THURSDAY, 13TH OF MARCH 5.30pm Main Lecture Theatre, Edinburgh College of Art, Lauriston Place, EH3 9DF

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DANISH LISTING PRACTICES AND THE HERITAGE OF THE WELFARE STATE POUL SVERRILD (MUSEUM OF SUBURBIA, DENMARK) Poul Sverrild graduated with an MA (research degree) in history from the University of Copenhagen in 1981. After two years of training at the Danish National Archives he has continuously been working with local history, heritage values in post-war building-stock and suburban-, housing- and planning history.

Since 2008 Poul has been director at Forstadsmuseet (Suburban Museum) in the municipality of Hvidovre located in Greater Copenhagen. He has worked with museum and heritage strategies and has created an outdoor museum communicating the history of the buildings, infrastructure and traces of life lived.

He is a member of a Danish national committee on post-war architecture, member of the Danish Committee on Urban History and active in DoCoMoMo. He is currently working on a PhD-thesis dealing with transformations and centre-periphery relations over a period of 150 years in the Copenhagen suburb Hvidovre.

Poul Sverrild´s masterclass will introduce Danish housing history since the beginning of industrialization in Denmark with a focus on the epoch of the welfare state. Likewise he will give a short presentation of Danish listing history and policy.

He will also present and discuss a current case on the listing proposal for the earliest dense-low Danish housing project, Grenhusene (195358), by architect Svenn Eske Christensen. The presentation will focus on the challenges to listing policy and practice, which are presented by materiality, aesthetics, cultural biases and democracy.

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FRANCISCO RODRIGUEZ DE PARTEARROYO THURSDAY, 20TH OF MARCH 5.30pm Main Lecture Theatre, Edinburgh College of Art, Lauriston Place, EH3 9DF

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THE RESTORATION AND REHABILITATION OF PALACIO CIBELES, MADRID FRANCISCO RODRIGUEZ DE PARTEARROYO (ARQUIMÁTICA, SPAIN) Francisco Rodriguez de Partearroyo Conde is a Spanish architect and professor at the Escuela Superior de Arquitectura in Madrid.

Some of his most notable projects include the restoration and cleaning of facades of the Museo del Prado, the rehabilitation of the Hospital del Rey to the Law Faculty of Burgos (Europe NOSTRA award1992) and the conversion of the Theatre Royal in Opera House of Madrid.

In 1992 he founded Arquimática S.L.P. and directed for 19 years an interdisciplinary team of qualified professionals, architects, engineers, and other technical specializing in design and development of projects.

Throughout this career he has covered all facets of conservation, from conceptual design to execution.

In this lecture Rodriguez de Partearroyo will examine the restoration and rehabilitation of Madrid’s City Hall (Palacio Cibeles). Converted from an old Post Office Building, the auditorium has broadened its original functions, now offering Spanish citizens and visitors to the capital a place to exchange cultural information and engage in contemporary life and culture.

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