Recording the physical characteristics of historic structures and landscapes is a cornerstone of preventive maintenance, monitoring, and conservation. The information produced by such work guides decision-making by property owners, site managers, public officials, and conservators. The growth of the field of conservation has brought with it vast quantities of heritage information collected using a variety of techniques from long established practices such as photography and hand sketching to emerging technologies including Building Information Modeling and Digital Fabrication. Today, it plays a vital role in defining a heritage place’s significance, integrity, extent, and threats, and is crucial to understanding, protection, and management of heritage places. Heritage professionals need to appreciate the various recording techniques that are available to them as well as their applications. This course helps students to consider new ways of observing and thinking about the built environment through practical application of documentation methods and fieldwork.
- Teacher: msantana