INTERNATIONAL SEMINARS

We intend to hold 6 seminars and 2 International workshops in the week of the Conference.
These will take place in the afternoon/evening and will not interfere, as a result, with the morning schedule. Attendance of the same is optional.
Should you be interested in attending, please make this known in your enrolment form, indicating which Seminar you have chosen.
All participants in the Seminar will be issued the corresponding certificate of attendance at the same by the organisation of the VII International Conference for Rehabilitation of Architectural Heritage and Building (Yaiza, 2004)

The language to be used in the international seminars will be Spanish.

SEMINAR 1,- PRESERVATION AND RESTORATION OF XX CENTURY ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE (4 hours)
Director: Angel Luis Fernández Muñóz
Universidad Europea de Madrid

An evaluation of our recent culture has been something which no period in civilisation has been able to deal with until the present. The absence of sufficient distance on the subject and the ‘differing’ nature of the authors of the most outstanding landmarks has made their work be placed in a category totally apart from the rest. However, we know that modernism has its value in that it is a break from the Past. This, thus, leads us to the consideration that we should treat the most outstanding buildings of the XX century as monuments to be preserved and protected, despite their relative ‘youth’.
The seminar will analyse the process via relevant examples which will allow us to illustrate what objects should be protected, how they are to be valued and the problems and solutions found in the process.

SEMINAR 2.- PRESERVATION AND RESTORATION OF WOOD PANELLING AND COFFERING (3 hours)
Wood and wooden panelling: main characteristics.
A review of Spanish wooden panelling and coffering
Examples of interventions on wood panelling and coffering.
Trelliswork, geometric analysis and application in plans.
Traditional methods of definition and design.
Present methods.
Practical experience from case studies.
Director: D. Enrique Nuere
Architect

SEMINAR 3.- PRESERVATION AND RESTORATION OF STONEWORK, MORTER, CLAY AND MASONRY (4 hours)
Dr. Eduardo Sebastián Pardo (University of Granada) Spain
Dr. D. Modesto Montoto (University of Oviedo) Spain
Dra. Rosa María Esbert (University of Oviedo) Spain
Characteristics, properties and deterioration.
Preservation: Methods and products.
Techniques relating to preservation.
Practical experience from case studies.
Documentation.

SEMINAR 4.- TERRITORY, TOURISM AND HERITAGE (4 hours)
Dra. Margaret Hart Robertson, ULPGC, Spain
D. Mariano Chirivella Caballero, ULPGC, Spain.
The globalisation of the economy has produced a re-mapping of culture and a growing concern for rehabilitation of intangible heritage (gastronomy, music, languages, dance, religious celebrations and rites of passage) which, together with the built heritage, represent the identifying and differentiating characteristics of any given territory with respect to others.
Globalisation has also produced a redefinition of tourism and has restored its original educational value in broadening cultural horizons, and producing informed and culturally sensitive tourists who will contribute towards promoting and safeguarding the rehabilitated environmental values of any one place they visit, for future generations to enjoy.

SEMINAR 5.- METHODS FOR PRESERVING AND RESTORING PAINTED PANELS ON WOODEN SUPPORTS.
Director: Dña Mª José González López, Señor Lecturer at the Universidad de Sevilla. Profesional Restorer of cultural objects.
AIMS: Research and work on pieces of furniture is conceived of as a set of studies at present designed at improving our know-how in order to produce more coherent and cohesive interventions in the field. The application of this maxim which is essentially simple and evident, at first sight, requires careful planning of the process and the definition of a method which will allow for its adequate application: that is, the application of a methodology based on know-how which is correct for the case and which is valid and viable, that is, in consonance with the needs of the object and the administrative demands, therefore allowing for the practical and compatible intervention to be carried out and for the object to be restored.

This concept implies looking at the environmental context in the widest possible sense, including socio-cultural and preservation considerations implied in the uses to which the object is to be put and the context in which it originally worked. This is a broader vision than the traditional perspective applied in preservation in that the activities demanded are both of a cognitive scientific nature (studies and research) and operational (the action in itself) and require prevision of the action on the causes of deterioration (preventive preservation) and action on the effects (curative preservation).

The intervention, then, should be based over two time frames: the first, scientific-cognitive and the second, operational. The actions contemplated may adopt different content depending upon the preservation, legal or technical demands of practical restoration. Preliminary studies, diagnosis, preservation, restoration, maintenance, evaluation, dissemination, management and monitoring of the object restored can be administratively articulated in a cohesive and coherent Integral Plan or Programme of Action (Building or piece of furniture) or through tailored programmes.
PROGRAMME
Concept of the intervention
Methodology applied to knowledge required for the intervention: definition, aims, phases, applications, instruments and means.
Project as an instrument of knowledge and management.
Practical application. Case study and analysis.
DURATION: 3 hours
PROFILE OF STUDENT
Specialists in Historic heritage and preferably professionals in the field of restoration and preservation of cultural objects.

SEMINAR 6.- TRADITIONAL MEDITERRANEAN ARCHITECTURE
Xavier Casanovas. Architect.
Lecturer in the UNESCO Chair in Technology and Sustainable Development at the Polytechnic University of Cataluña
In charge of Rehabilitation and Environment at the Colegio de Aparejadores y Arquitectos técnicos in Barcelona.

The Mediterranean which is the cradle of the greatest of civilisations of our times has always represented a frontier between near-lying countries and a channel of communication between coastal peoples who have shared knowledge and experience to their mutual enrichment The traditional architecture is one of the most complete exponents of this cultural wealth, made manifest in the adaptation of the techniques and shapes to the reality of the environment. The diversity within the unity has allowed the same solution to be offered to different functions and different social and religious realities. The unity conferred upon the architecture by the materials used and the building techniques employed allows us to talk of a Mediterranean culture and, most obviously, of a Mediterranean architecture.

Another constant factor to be found in the countries bordering the Mediterranean is the process of transformation undergone in the XX century, producing serious modifications of a heritage which we can now consider to be in danger of extinction. Two Euro-Mediterranean projects have focused their attention on building up knowledge and the preservation of this unique cultural heritage. CORPUS has studied exhaustively the different typologies of architecture whilst REHABIMED has focused on lines of research which allow for rehabilitation to be tackled not only from the technical perspective but also from the promotional and management perspectives.

WORKSHOP 1: PRESERVATION OF HERITAGE IN RURAL AREAS (4 hours)
D. José Luis Moreira (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
D. Fernando López (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)

WORKSHOP 2: WORK ON BUILDINGS DECLARED HUMANKIND HERITAGE: LA LONJA DE VALENCIA (4 hours)
D. Manuel Ramírez Blanco (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia)