Future Anterior 9. 1 Journal of Historic Preservation History, Theory, and Criticism |
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| Author:
| Otero-Pailos, Jorge |
| Series title: | Future Anterior Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8166-7946-1 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2012 |
| Publisher: | University of Minnesota Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $20.00 |
Book Description:
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Future Anterior approaches historic preservation from a position of critical inquiry, rigorous scholarship, and theoretical analysis. The journal is an important international forum for the critical examination of historic preservation, spurring challenges of its assumptions, goals, methods, and results. As the first journal in American academia devoted to the study and advancement of historic preservation, it provides a much-needed bridge between architecture and...
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Future Anterior approaches historic preservation from a position of critical inquiry, rigorous scholarship, and theoretical analysis. The journal is an important international forum for the critical examination of historic preservation, spurring challenges of its assumptions, goals, methods, and results. As the first journal in American academia devoted to the study and advancement of historic preservation, it provides a much-needed bridge between architecture and history.
The journal also features provocative theoretical reflections on historic preservation from the point of view of art, philosophy, law, geography, archeology, planning materials science, cultural anthropology, and conservation.
Future Anterior is essential reading for anyone interested in historic preservation and its role in current cultural debates.