Design Yearbook 2017

Studio 8 – Building Upon Building
Josep-Maria Garcia-Fuentes & Aldric Rodriguez Iborra
This studio understands preservation as architecture, as it explores architecture, heritage, authenticity and preservation tied to ever-changing
political and cultural processes, which inescapably mean that their constant changes cannot be avoided or stopped. Grounding on this
approach the studio discusses the contemporary concern with heritage and the ever–expanding preservation movement. Ultimately the
studio questions what it means to preserve and whether it is really possible to preserve. The projects in the studio explore new approaches to
experimental preservation to better suit this profound and changing essence of heritage and respond appropriately to its current contemporary
challenges.
Linked with Stage 3 (see pg.56)
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Carl Reid British Museum and a Critique on Preservation of Artefacts