Welcome to the InfoSci Platform
Cronocaos: An Alternative Approach to “Preservation”

Cronocaos: An Alternative Approach to “Preservation”

Belen Butragueno, Javier Francisco Raposo, María Asunción Salgado
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 18
ISBN13: 9781522575559|ISBN10: 1522575553|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781522587194|EISBN13: 9781522575566
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7555-9.ch005
Cite Chapter Cite Chapter

MLA

Butragueno, Belen, et al. "Cronocaos: An Alternative Approach to “Preservation”." Conservation, Restoration, and Analysis of Architectural and Archaeological Heritage, edited by Carlo Inglese and Alfonso Ippolito, IGI Global, 2019, pp. 108-125. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7555-9.ch005

APA

Butragueno, B., Raposo, J. F., & Salgado, M. A. (2019). Cronocaos: An Alternative Approach to “Preservation”. In C. Inglese & A. Ippolito (Eds.), Conservation, Restoration, and Analysis of Architectural and Archaeological Heritage (pp. 108-125). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7555-9.ch005

Chicago

Butragueno, Belen, Javier Francisco Raposo, and María Asunción Salgado. "Cronocaos: An Alternative Approach to “Preservation”." In Conservation, Restoration, and Analysis of Architectural and Archaeological Heritage, edited by Carlo Inglese and Alfonso Ippolito, 108-125. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2019. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7555-9.ch005

Export Reference

Mendeley
Favorite

Abstract

This chapter questions the traditional approach to preservation as it was historically undertaken. It is based on the approach followed by Rem Koolhaas and his Office OMA-AMO, in the exhibition “Cronocaos,” at the 12th Edition of Venice Biennale (2010). The authors will show how globalization has had a homogenizing impact on the concept of preservation. There is an unequivocal need to find a new system to mediate between preservation and development. OMA proposes to focus on “what to erase” and not “what to keep,” avoiding pre-existing assumptions and working with a “tabula rasa beneath the thinning crust of our civilization.”

Request Access

You do not own this content. Please login to recommend this title to your institution's librarian or purchase it from the IGI Global bookstore.