The Baroque is the Catholic Church’s response to the Protestant Reformation, its purpose being to instil awe and to prove the power and greatness of the Catholic Church. The existing church buildings, in order to comply to the requests and needs of the Baroque, often undergo modifications, their extent differing by case. The modifications can be structural or with structural consequences, or just non-structural, on a stylistic level. From a structural point of view, the most important change is the modification of the slab type, correlated sometimes with changes of the roof structure. This paper discusses the main alterations of Gothic churches during the Baroque period and their structural consequences, focusing mainly on ceilings. The case study through which the consequences of modifying the ceiling type are analysed is the one of the Franciscan Monastery Church in Baia de Criş, Hunedoara County. 

Keywords: churches, transformation, Baroque, vaults

I was here, or more precisely in Tusnad, for the first time 30 years ago at the Tusnad conference. Everything has changed since then. That was the beginning of the revival of historic building conservation here. I was teaching the basics then, but now I am more concerned with the details of my long experience. Since then, the market has intruded historic building conservation policy here, and in Hungary too. The ideology and practice of heritage conservation has developed a lot, thanks to this series of conferences, which have attracted great international interest. Meanwhile, the market economy has taken over; the demand for marketability has emerged. 

Keywords: authentic conservation, Royal Palace of Gödöllő, cave dwellings, unmarketability, market survey

In all cases, the restoration of historic buildings can be done by carrying out in-depth building research. In Hungary, this process was established in the early 20^th century by the work of István MÖLLER, following European practice. From the late 1950s onwards, art historians became increasingly involved in the process of building research, and this process sometimes limited the predominance of the architectural thought. Partly as a result of this, and partly because of the decline of the organisational background of heritage preservation, architectural intentions that seek to impose contemporary fashions in heritage preservation have come to the fore. Such a solution may be minimalist architecture, which is completely alien to the form and space creation of historical architecture. Interventions made on the built heritage impose solutions alien to it. 

Keywords: history of heritage conservation, building research, contemporary architecture, built heritage preservation

“We only know as much as we remember.” More than thirty years have passed since the year of regime changes in Central and Eastern Europe at the last turn of the decade of the 20^th century. We recall those few years of transformation in the light of the experiences of a quarter of a century. This brief review of the events pays tribute to the process of building professional relationships with the aim to safeguard and preserve the valuable built heritage of the Carpathian Basin; it also recalls the partnerships resulting from those relationships, which in turn greatly contributed to the birth of the Tuşnad international conference series as well. The threats to the cultural heritage of communities living in Central and Eastern Europe – including the Carpathian Basin – were first brought to public attention by protests and demonstrations, held in Hungary and Western Europe (Belgium, the Netherlands etc.) in 1988-89, against the destruction of Romanian villages. Among other factors, the informal, personal relationships born at the end of the 80s grounded the opportunity to establish connections first with the re-established national historic buildings protection organization in Romania, then with the NGOs created at the beginning of the 90s, when the political regime changes occurred at the end of 1989 finally allowed such relations. These political changes made possible for the Hungarian National Monument Inspectorate (as it was called at that time) to establish official relationships initiated by a few dedicated staff members, and subsequently official professional relations within bilateral agreements with specialists, state and civic institutions assuming responsibility for the built heritage in neighbouring countries. The professional events and cooperation programmes launched due to these relationships were the foundation and preliminary to the still ongoing historic building protection programme in neighbouring countries, launched by the Hungarian government in 1998 within the framework of the National Heritage Programme. Thanks to the professional and material support of the Hungarian state, many documentation, research and assessment programmes preceding restoration and conservation work, consequently a series of historic building restorations or complete conservations were carried out in the following years in the Carpathian Basin. 

Keywords: Carpathian Basin, professional relationships, cooperation, built heritage

In the framework of the European Year of Cultural Heritage (2018) and at the request of the European Commission, the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) has developed the document European Quality Principles for EU-funded Interventions with potential impact on Cultural Heritage. The document, which focuses mainly on built heritage and cultural landscapes, was one of the ten Flagship Initiatives launched by the European Commission to achieve a lasting impact of the European Year of Cultural Heritage. Cultural heritage, as a public good, should be seen as a shared responsibility to protect. This is the prerequisite for adherence to quality, and quality objectives must be pursued throughout the entire process, from the conception of funding programmes to the final evaluation of projects, at all stages of the life cycle.

Architect Tamás PINTÉR passed away at the age of 76; he had worked at the IPARTERV State Architectural Office, then at the Budapest branch of the National Inspectorate for the Protection of Historic Buildings.