Lecture Urban Conservation 1B (Heritage Definition)

Amity School of Architecture and Planning
B.Arch Programme, IX Semester
Theory of Urban Design

ARCH503
Defining “Heritage”
Significance aspect of “Heritage”
Contents
Learning outcomes of the session
By end of this session you will be able ;
• Explain “heritage” in your own words.

• Associate and recongise significance that
qualify a structure as “heritage”.
Learning
Outcomes
Heritage
Heritage
Cultural heritage is the legacy of physical artifacts and intangible

attributes of a group or society that is inherited from past generations.
Not all legacies of past generations are "heritage", rather heritage is a

product of selection by society.
Heritage
Source ; Logan, William S. (2007). "Closing Pandora's Box: Human Rights Conundrums in Cultural Heritage". In Silverman, Helaine;
Ruggles, D. Fairchild (eds.). Cultural heritage and human rights. New York, NY: Springer. ISBN 9780387713137. OCLC 187048155.
The term cultural heritage encompasses several main categories of heritage:

•Cultural heritage
•Tangible cultural heritage:
Movable Cultural Heritage
paintings sculpture coins manuscript
Heritage Types
Source; http://www.unesco.org/new/en/culture/themes/illicit-trafficking-of-cultural-property/unesco-database-of-national-cultural-
heritage-laws/frequently-asked-questions/definition-of-the-cultural-heritage/

•Tangible cultural heritage:
Immovable Cultural Heritage
Konark Temple
Heritage Types Monuments or archeological sites

•Tangible cultural heritage
Underwater cultural heritage (shipwrecks, underwater ruins and cities)
Heritage Types

•Intangible cultural heritage:
Oral traditions, performing arts, rituals
Santali Dance Central India

Heritage Types

•Natural heritage:
•Natural sites with cultural aspects such as cultural landscapes, physical,

biological or geological formations
Valley of Flowers, Near Mana, Uttrakhand, India

Heritage Types
Conservation
What ?
Why ?
How ?
Values
Conservation
Values What ? Values
Why ?
How ?
Values Values
Values
Values Values
Conservation
Why ?
How ?
Values Values
Values
Significance
Values Values
Conservation
Why ?
How ?
HERITAGE
Values Values
Values
Significance
Values Values
We are only the custodians of heritage and not its owners.
Philosophy
Significance comprises aspects that make any structure ‘heritage’–our

shared inheritance received from previous generations, that hold some
value/lessons for us (other than emotional or romantic feelings), and
something that we need to pass on to the coming generations.
Significance
The first true arch

in India
constructed under
the Islamic rule.
Tomb of Ghiyaz Ud Din Balban 13th Century

Significance tells us the exact aspects of heritage that

need to be preserved.
Significance
Significance has to goes beyond description and historical facts to clearly

identify what makes the structure special.
Significance
• Historical (related to specific time/events/persons of importance in

the past)
Significance can be
• Architectural
studied by breaking into
• Archaeological (period or age)
individual values:
• Townscape and city identity
• Technological and scientific
• Social/Cultural (includes symbolic and spiritual associations)
• Educational
• Functional
• Economic
• Aesthetics
Values
The ‘values’ as can be placed under:
(a) wonder;
(1) (b) identity;

Emotional values: (c) continuity;
(d) spiritual and symbolic.
Categorising
Values
(a) documentary;
(b) historic;
(2)
(c) archaeological, age and scarcity;
Cultural values:
(d) aesthetic and symbolic;
(e) architectural;
(f) townscape, landscape and ecological;
(g) technological and scientific

Categorising
Values
(a) functional;
(b) economic;
(3)
Use values: (c) social;
(d) educational;
(e) political and ethnic
Categorising
Values
Conservation
Why ?
How ?
HERITAGE
Values Values
Values
Significance
Values Values
References;
• Fielden Bernard M, Conservation of Historic Buildings, Architectural Press, Architectural Press, London, 2003
• Logan, William S. (2007). "Closing Pandora's Box: Human Rights Conundrums in Cultural Heritage". In Silverman, Helaine;
Ruggles, D. Fairchild (eds.). Cultural heritage and human rights. New York, NY:
Springer. ISBN 9780387713137. OCLC 187048155.
• http://www.unesco.org/new/en/culture/themes/illicit-trafficking-of-cultural-property/unesco-database-of-national-cultural-
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Amity School of Architecture and Planning

B.Arch Programme, IX Semester

Theory of Urban Design

Significance aspect of “Heritage”

Learning outcomes of the session

By end of this session you will be able ;

• Explain “heritage” in your own words.

Cultural heritage is the legacy of physical artifacts and intangible

Not all legacies of past generations are "heritage", rather heritage is a

The term cultural heritage encompasses several main categories of heritage:

•Tangible cultural heritage:

Movable Cultural Heritage

paintings sculpture coins manuscript

The term cultural heritage encompasses several main categories of heritage:

•Tangible cultural heritage:

Immovable Cultural Heritage

The term cultural heritage encompasses several main categories of heritage:

•Tangible cultural heritage

Underwater cultural heritage (shipwrecks, underwater ruins and cities)

The term cultural heritage encompasses several main categories of heritage:

•Intangible cultural heritage:

Oral traditions, performing arts, rituals

Santali Dance Central India

The term cultural heritage encompasses several main categories of heritage:

•Natural sites with cultural aspects such as cultural landscapes, physical,

Valley of Flowers, Near Mana, Uttrakhand, India

We are only the custodians of heritage and not its owners.

Significance comprises aspects that make any structure ‘heritage’–our

The first true arch

Tomb of Ghiyaz Ud Din Balban 13th Century

Significance tells us the exact aspects of heritage that

Significance has to goes beyond description and historical facts to clearly

• Historical (related to specific time/events/persons of importance in

The ‘values’ as can be placed under:

(1) (b) identity;

(d) spiritual and symbolic.

The ‘values’ as can be placed under:

(f) townscape, landscape and ecological;

(g) technological and scientific

The ‘values’ as can be placed under:

(e) political and ethnic

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