Conference Paper

Author

Taylor, Mark; Preston, Julieanna; Charleson, Andrew.

Title

Seismic Resistance: Heritage, Architecture and the Post-colonial

In

Second Australasian Conference on Engineering Heritage, Auckland, 14-16 February, 2000: Proceedings

Imprint

Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand, Auckland, New Zealand, 2000, pp. 217-222

ISBN/ISSN

0980960352

Url

https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.911097376760565

Abstract

The necessity to incorporate earthquake strengthening in historic structures is a factor affecting many nations as they embrace 'heritage' culture. Strengthening guidelines tend to be globally orientated at a time when local cultural, geographical and geological conditions are being explored. In this paper, politics of preservation and conservation are questioned for their appropriateness to a particular place and building. A design project is offered as a means by which the preservation of a heritage building, in the emerging post-colonial culture of New Zealand, becomes a sign of resistance to internationalisation. It concludes by showing how resistance can reconfigure the history of a land that has been subject to continual imposition and dominance of global/colonial ideas and policies, without critical adaptation by the local.

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• Second Australasian Conference on Engineering Heritage, Auckland, 14-16 February, 2000: Proceedings edited by Lowe, P. G.; Hill, R .F. (Auckland, New Zealand: Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand, 2000), 248 pp, https://search.informit.org/doi/book/10.3316/informit.0980960352. Details