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What Future for Our National Heritage? Panel Talk
March 9, 2020 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
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The controversial reconstruction of Notre Dame, which suffered considerable damage last spring due to a fire, has sparked another question around national heritage and its adaptation to the present and future. Technological advances sometimes render obsolete construction that have been built centuries ago. Should we favor a newly built version which is adapted to current times or preserve the original as a way to remember the past? The debate will in part cover current discussions about Notre-Dame.
Guest Speakers:
Bénédicte de Montlaur, CEO, World Monuments Fund
Pierre-Antoine Gatier, Chief Architect for Historical Monuments
Jorge Otero-Pailos, Director and Professor of Historic Preservation at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture in New York
Michel Picaud, President, Friends of Notre-Dame de Paris
Moderated by Victoria Sanger, specialist in urban history.
Panel talk held in English.