{"id":594,"date":"2016-09-23T21:08:06","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T13:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/?p=594"},"modified":"2016-09-24T17:04:38","modified_gmt":"2016-09-24T09:04:38","slug":"heritage-as-ground-zero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/heritage-as-ground-zero\/","title":{"rendered":"Heritage As Ground-Zero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Preservation is not about restoring old buildings in a way that looks exactly as it is before. It is a notion that requires a larger imagination, clarity and ambition to define what it is that&#8217;s being preserved, rather than freezing architecture in an ever-changing social-technological environment.<\/p>\n<p>Aldo Rossi has two meanings to describe the architecture of the city &#8211; \u201cFirst, the city is seen as a gigantic man-made object, growing over time; second, as urban artifacts characterized by their own history and form. \u201c <a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This thesis highlights the perpetual tension between the conservative and progressive thinking and tries to seek for a newer interpretation and take in today&#8217;s contemporary landscape.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/09\/castles_0-1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-830\" src=\"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/09\/castles_0-1-209x300.jpg\" alt=\"castles_0\" width=\"545\" height=\"782\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/09\/castles_0-1-209x300.jpg 209w, http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/09\/castles_0-1-768x1102.jpg 768w, http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/09\/castles_0-1-713x1024.jpg 713w, http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/09\/castles_0-1-210x301.jpg 210w, http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/09\/castles_0-1.jpg 1070w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>El Castillo de Matrera, Villamart\u00edn, restored by architect Carlos Quevedo<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> Aldo Rossi, <em>The Architecture of the City<\/em>, (The MIT Press, 1984), 29<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preservation is not about restoring old buildings in a way that looks exactly as it is before. It is a notion that requires a larger imagination, clarity and ambition to define what it is that&#8217;s being preserved, rather than freezing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[197,264,252,292,251,253],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":924,"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions\/924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}