ブックタイトル「近代の文化遺産の保存理念と修復理念」英語版

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「近代の文化遺産の保存理念と修復理念」英語版

1Fundamental studies for seeking approaches in conservation and restoration of various culturalproperties including brick masonry structures, vessels, and aircraft were commenced at the NationalResearch Institute for Cultural Properties, Tokyo, from around 1990, starting with researchon modern cultural heritage properties. In 2001, when the institute was re-established as anindependent administrative institution, a project titled “Research on Conservation and Restorationof Modern Cultural Heritage Properties” was began. Through this undertaking, various fields ofspecialization and materials have been dealt with focusing on a different topic each year, such asrailways, large-scale structures, water facilities, steel structures, and concrete structures. Specialistsfrom Japan and around the world have been invited to participate in seminars held at our institute.Each of these seminars has been recorded annually in a series of reports titled “Conservation ofIndustrial Heritage.”　In 2006, the Technical Application Section changed its name to the present Modern CulturalHeritage Section and announced the focal point of our studies to be preservation and restoration ofartifacts of cultural heritage from the modern era.　Basic approaches for the administrative protection of modern cultural heritage was publicizedin a 1995 report of the Committee Regarding Survey on Modern Cultural Properties. It can besaid that protection of modern artifacts as cultural properties has been literally led by the field ofarchitecture. Many buildings, most of which had ended their working lives, were already regardedas heritage properties and new forms of usage were applied as a way of protection, or were addedother facilities and equipment for adaptive use as a larger complex. On the other hand, when worksof civil engineering were to be preserved, the original functions of tunnels, bridges, and dams weremaintained, while those no longer in use were saved as monuments.　However in 2015, on the occasion of the inscription of ”Sites of Japan’s Meiji IndustrialRevolution” on the World Heritage List, issues regarding protection of privately-owned workingheritage properties began to gather attention. Those in operation are destined to change owing totechnological innovation, including their production lines and thus, it became necessary to establishprinciples for preservation and restoration of properties that are inevitably susceptible to alteration.　So as to reflect this social change, this seminar was titled “Principles for Conservation andRestoration of Modern Cultural Heritage Properties,” aiming at further discussions on this topic.First, a keynote lecture was given by Dr. Rolf Hohmann from Germany, the leading country inprotection of industrial heritage, on how such properties are selected for preservation and onactual measures involved in the process. This was followed by three lecturers from various fieldsto present recent case studies. From Dr. Takashi Ito, on approaches to international industrialheritage protection, from the viewpoint of civil engineering history; from Dr. Tsutomu Kimura, onpreservation principles as seen through analyses of restoration projects of modern architecture, fromForeword