Diana Ancuţa IMECS
Seven Years Since the Completion of Consolidation- Conservation Works at the Saint George Church in Lupşa, Alba County
Abstract
The Saint George Church in Lupşa is an Orthodox masonry church built in the Middle Ages and included in the List of historic buildings of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, with the code AB-II-m-A-00248. This is the 7th year from the completion of the consolidation and conservation works, implemented in order to stop the church’s degradation. The passing of these years has tested if the implemented works were beneficial for the building and if it has behaved well in time. Keywords: Transylvania, Alba, Lupşa, mediaeval architecture, Orthodox church, consolidation-conservation, behaviour over time
Virgil POP
A Compromised Conservation
Abstract
The conservation of the church in Lupşa was finalised not long ago. It was implemented through a substantial financial effort of the Ministry of Culture, because the historic building has been abandoned and is not being used by the community. The attitude adopted through this conservation is an “intellectualist” one, actually inventing a new building, addressed mostly to the “connoisseurs” and, as it could be seen, unwanted by the community. Keywords: Ministry of Culture, conservation, connoisseurs, Lupşa
SZABÓ Bálint
UTILITAS 1991- 2011
Abstract
Many institutions engaging in the protection of the built heritage appeared at the beginning of the ’90s, in the vacuum created in the second half of the 20th century. The “Built Heritage Conservation Research and Design Centre – UTILITAS”, through qualified research and design work in collaboration with other specialists, and through the interventions on hundreds of historic buildings, in most cases of national significance, ensures their preservation, conservation and presentation. Another area of concern is that of creating an infrastructure for collateral activities: test laboratory or publishing house (scientific journal, speciality books) and of training young specialists, within the company or outside it. Keywords: built heritage, research and design, historic building intervention specialists
Călin HOINĂRESCU
1992-2012. Twenty Years of Historic Building Conservation in Romania
Abstract
We shall try, in the following lines, to illustrate the evolution of the historic building conservation phenomenon in our country, after 1989, thus remembering the previous rules, given that it is necessary to give a brief definition of the notion of historic building conservation, an activity included in the field of construction works, but which individualises itself from general construction works. Keywords: conservation, historic buildings, traditional crafts, capital repairs, research, design, implementation
BENCZÉDI Sándor
The Past Twenty Years of Hungarian Built Heritage Conservation in Transylvania
Abstract
In the first days of July 2011, when the editor-in-chief of the Transsylvania Nostra Journal asked me to prepare a presentation on the history of the past twenty years of Hungarian built heritage conservation in Transylvania for the specialist journal, I was hardly aware of what I undertook. During the cumbersome and long process of material gathering, a multitude of memories, contradictions, doubts, successes and failures came to my mind. They finally made me leave the task to posterity and to the enterprising young representatives of a new generation, as an ingrate heritage(?) or responsible task. I do not feel myself entitled to undertake the task, nor do I possess enough information to be able to complete it reliably and exhaustively. I also find the assigned length inappropriate, as not even a complete issue would be enough, even for simply listing the events. In light of the above remarks, I only intend my contribution as an addition. I will try to provide a selection of the events of the past twenty years, based on my own, lived experiences. Keywords: build heritage conservation, Transilvania, NGOs
MIHÁLY Ferenc
A Marginal Note on Conservation
Abstract
The journal’s editor-in-chief requested a review and brief sketch of the last 20 years of conservation works. Far from attempting a complete presentation of artwork conservation in the mentioned period, we would rather raise awareness of the problems and difficulties that are abundant in this field of work. Our observations refer primarily to artworks from the regions inhabited by Hungarians and Saxons. Unfortunately, we are unable to speak about a process, a deliberate short-, mid- or long-term strategy, nor about the formation of a professional group of conservationists. The main reasons for this may be looked for in the following. Keywords: conservation, artistic components, artist-conservationist, Transylvania, mural, painted surface, inscription
Ioana RUS
A Few Unknown Aspects from the History of the Bánffy Palace, Today the Cluj-Napoca Museum of Arts
Abstract
In 2011 the Museum of Art celebrates 60 years of existence in Cluj, after its founding in 1951 and its opening on August 21, 1952, in the edifice, which is at present the Museum of Ethnography. The art collections were moved in 1957 in the Bánffy Palace from today’s Unirii Square, on which occasion the historic building went through a series of extensive transformations, in order to meet the requests specific to the activities of a museum. Keywords: The Bánffy Palace, history, conservation, museum, 1951-1972
Book Review
CO.RE. Built Heritage – ICOMOS Booklet Series, No. 2