MODERN MATTERS

摘要

The conservation of Modern architecture presents an immediate challenge throughout the world. Modern masterpieces are failing due to inherent design problems and changes in the economic and political contexts in which they now exist. Despite some excellent work by a few pioneers in the field around the world, increasing numbers of architects, owners and communities are struggling to conserve Modern architecture. From country to country, technical skills, commercial opportunity and public empathy for Modern buildings vary remarkably, as does the understanding and philosophical attitude towards building conservation. The conservation of Modern architecture ranges from individual buildings to whole cities, and it presents an urgent challenge; an international challenge that needs to inspire cross-cultural collaboration in order to ensure that our Modern architectural inheritance survives intact - or in some cases, that it survives at all.