About the talk:
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.
