Typically applied during the design phases of a project, cultural heritage policy documents provide excellent guidance for the long-term retention of an historic building.
Cultural heritage policy documents provide excellent guidance for the long-term retention of an historic building. From the Secretary’s Standards to the World Heritage Convention’s charters, documents, and declarations, these documents offer invaluable guidance, including the concepts of minimal intervention, reversibility, and differentiation, when working with historic buildings as well as other existing buildings. Above all, in striving to meet the above principles, respect the historic building as a work of art, including its past interventions.