14.00-15.00 BST – Zoom Webinar (Register via Eventbrite here)
Urban conservation in France in a few dates: protections and paradoxes
Prof Samuel Drapeau
Senior Lecturer in Architectural Cultures and History
the National Higher School of Architecture and Landscape in Bordeaux
This masterclass will offers an overview of heritage protection measures applied to urban areas since the early 20th century in France. While for a long time, changes to protection measures were made in response to needs, today’s measures are much more anticipative, despite certain paradoxes: between the need to adapt to climate change, a conservative view of heritage and land use planning. Four periods will be covered: the First Reconstruction and the first regulatory responses at the urban level (1920s-1930s); the Second Reconstruction and measures to safeguard historic centres (1940s-1970s); the end of major land-use planning projects and targeted protection (1980s-2000s); and the environmental transition at the centre of the debate? (2010s-).
Samuel Drapeau
Samuel Drapeau is a senior lecturer in Architectural Cultures and History at the National Higher School of Architecture and Landscape in Bordeaux. With a PhD in medieval art history, he specialises in cultural dynamics and the tools used to transmit knowledge in the field of architecture, from the past to the present day.
