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https://research.gsd.harvard.edu/mci/files/2018/06/palimpsest.jpg40002247Enrique Aureng Silva Design Studies in Critical Conservation Graduate School of Design, Harvard University 2018 Historic buildings are the physical signs of the past. They are the material evidence of other times, other peoples, other ways of understanding life and architecture. Interpreted as such, they are frequently associated with particular historic narratives, they become the objects and recipients of cultural memories, and more often than not, they get connected to notions of national value, of particular heritage discourses that tend to emphasize certain historic narratives while neglecting others. However, historic buildings, like any other building, are also in constant transformation. Not […]