TY  - BOOK
AU  - W. F. Denslagen
AU  - W. F. Denslagen 
TI  - Memories of architecture: : Architectural Heritage and Historiography in the Distant Past
SN  - 905589303X
U1  - 720.288 DEN 23
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Amsterdam, Netherlands
PB  - : Het Spinhuis
KW  - Arts
KW  -  European historiography
KW  - Roman temple architecture
N2  - In the world of conservation it is widely believed that the concern with historical architecture, in Europe at least, emerged during the nineteenth century, even if there had been some earlier initiatives in the Renaissance. This book draws on a number of sources to show that this concern may actually be as old as European civilization itself. The same is also true of the destruction of architecture. But the destruction of historical architecture can produce traumatic experiences, which survive in the collective memory of people. One can demolish a building, but not its memory. But how was this memory passed on in the distant past? Nearly everything we know about the past is based on the research of nineteenth- century historians. Looking beyondthat age to a more distant past, one finds a totally different world of learning. Veneration for the great architectural legacy of the past is found in the oldest European historiography. Christian emperors made laws to protect Roman temple architecture
ER  -