Why is Architectural Heritage important?

Question

Why is Architectural Heritage important?

Answer 1

People grow attached to the buildings that are historic.  It's like stupid New Orleans...why the h**l would people want to go back to a nasty place that will end up flooding again.  It's because they feel nostalgic and the buildings assist with that feeling.  "Oh, it's so old...it's historic...think of the history established with that place..."  Load of c**p...

Pesonally, I hope it floods again...it will be fun to watch people rebuild it a third time.

Answer 2

Our heritage is so much a part of our identity.  Much of that heritage is stored in ways other than the written word:  in song, art, crafts and skills, cemeteries, and architecture, to name a few.  None of these is permanent.  If or when they are lost, they are permanently lost.  Like any other information, preserving and storing that information benefits generations to come, often in ways we can't imagine at the time.  Preservation can be as simple as photographs, or transcribed information.  The change to a different medium increases the chances that the information will survive.  Marble tombstones, for example, are fast being destroyed by acid rain.  For many families, these are the only records of their ancestors, and the only clues as to where to find their living relatives today.  Recording these, and adding them to the Internet databases increases the knowledge of all humankind.  Buildings also preserve knowledge of the people who built and used them, their technology and culture.  Preservation approaches vary, but they all in the end resemble the same model we see of the ancient world:  a city, built on the ruins of another city, on top of another, and another.  The people in Israel can tell you, it is much easier to evaluate and record the remnants of an older culture before you build over them.

Answer 3

Hi!

Despite the fact that western populations are far more transient in the C21st, most people have a sense of connection to place as well as family. Community stability is much stronger where there is evidence for today's generation of the footprint of their forebears, and architecture is an important aspect of this. If children grow up in communities where all the buildings are only thirty or forty years old, there is a valuable dimension missing from their environment. It's like living in a zoo rather than an organic community.

Pride in ones community is part of what makes for community cohesion. In my own post-industrial neighbourhood, we have turned around long standing negative trends of high unemployment, mental ill health, crime and anti-social behaviour by saving a local building of significance for use by all the community. We have done this in intergenerational ways that have involved all the local schools. Along the way, we have revived skills that were close to lost and rejuvenated mentoring and apprenticeship schemes that once served Britain so well.

Good wishes.

Answer 4

it isn't. honestly.

Answer 5

snot

Answer 6

it's really sad when we let go of unique landmarks with a distinctive past, which help us identify with the history of a place and time, or of a period. Although it is good to move with the times for commercialism and to allow new architectural buidings of our time to shine, we must also preserve the old, so that the future generations can see and feel the difference. I think it is something dear to all of us, but we just take it for granted. who likes waking up the next day finding themselves in a place they can't recognize?