Course Details

1. Identify the history of architectural conservation.
2. Recognize the various charters of conservation and the Cypriot laws on the subject.
3. Develop the ability to discuss philosophical ideas on conservation
4. Develop critical thinking.
5. Construct personal viewpoints and ideology regarding new problems that arise in architectural conservation.
6. Express a personal ideology and standpoint in regards to architectural conservation.

• History of conservation
• Philosophy and Ethics for the protection of monuments and restorations
• International Agreements, Contracts and Tenders
• Current concepts of recognition, protection, restoration, and use of monuments, Ensembles and Historical Construction.
• Problems and Practical implementation of the policy of Protection and Rehabilitation.
• Legislation Protection of Cultural Heritage in Cyprus and Europe
• Statutory instruments for recording, protection and Restoration of Monuments and Historical Constructions.
• Ethics and Methodology Management of Cultural Heritage
• European Union and International Organizations on the Protection of Cultural Heritage

• Γ. Καραδέδος, Ιστορία και θεωρία της αποκατάστασης

• Διεθνείς Χάρτες περί προστασίας των Μνημείων (Χάρτα των Αθηνών, Χάρτης της Βενετίας κ.λ.π.)
• Κυπριακή Νομοθεσία
• Γ. Καραδέδος, Ιστορία και θεωρία της αποκατάστασης
• Brandi, C. (1963), Teoria del restauro, Einaudi, Turin.
• Cleere, Η. 2006. The World heritage Convention: management by and for whom, in Layton, R., Shennan, S. and Stone, P. (eds), A future for archaeology: the past in the present. london: UCl Press, 65-74.
• Feilden, B. M. and Jokilehto, J., Management guidelines for World Cultural Heritage sites, ICCROM, Rome 1993.
• Feilden, B. M., Conservation of historic buildings, Butterworth-heinemann, Oxford 1994.
• ICOMOS, International charters for conservation and restoration, Munich 2004.
• Jokilehto, J., A history of architectural conservation, Butterworth-heinemann, Oxford 1999.
• Lowenthal, D., The past is a foreign country, Cambridge University Press, New york 1985.
• Καραδέδος Γ., Ιστορία & Θεωρία της Αποκατάστασης, Θεσσαλονίκη, 2009.
• Μαλλούχου-Τουφάνο Φανή, Η αναστήλωση αρχαίων μνημείων στη νεώτερη Ελλάδα 1834-1939, ΑΘήνα 1998.
• Μπούρας Χ., Π. Τουρνικιώτης (επιμ.) Συντήρηση, Aναστήλωση και Αποκατάσταση Αρχιτεκτονικών Μνημείων στην Ελλάδα 1950-2000, εκδόσεις Πολιτιστικού Ιδρύματος Ομίλου Πειραιώς, 89-110, Αθήνα 2010.
• Ιστοσελίδες των: ICCROM, ICOMOS και Getty Conservation Institute (GCI).

The taught part of the course is delivered to students by means of 13 lectures, conducted by electronic presentations. Lecture notes and pictures are given to students in electronic form.