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Greetings! |
We at WMF hope
your summer is going well. As of this writing, WMF has 138 projects
in the field, and at many of these sites our teams are taking
advantage of the summer months to carry out much needed conservation
work. As progress reports come in, we will share with you the latest
information on the restorations you are supporting. In the meantime,
here are just a few items of interest.
Best
regards,
Bonnie Burnham
President |
Mark your
calendar: Hadrian turns 20! |
Join
Hadrian Award Luncheon Chairs Mica Ertegün, Nina Joukowsky
Köprülü, and Sharon Patrick; Corporate Chair Harvey Golub, Executive
Chairman, Ripplewood Holdings LLC; and the WMF Board of
Trustees to commemorate the 20th Anniversary of the
prestigious Hadrian Award.
WMF will celebrate the 2007 Hadrian
Award honorees Rahmi M. Koç, Honorary Chairman of Koç Holding
A.Ş; Semahat S. Arsel, Chairman of the
Vehbi Koç Foundation; and the entire Koç family
for their leadership and commitment to the
restoration, protection, and scholarship of Turkey's cultural
heritage.
Friday, October 19, 2007 at 12:00 noon
The Pierre Hotel
New York City
For additional information or to purchase tickets
contact Jane Emerson at JEmrs@aol.com or World
Monuments Fund at
646-424-9594. | |
Restoration Complete: The Chapel of San Pedro de Mórrope,
Peru |
A rare example of rural Andean architecture, the chapel
of San Pedro de Mórrope was constructed in the mid-seventeenth
century as part of an effort to bring Christianity to the indigenous
Mochica, who for centuries had been living in relative isolation
amid the windswept sands of Peru's North Coast.
Built on a
rectangular plan using pre-Hispanic materials--including adobe,
plaster-coated trunks of carob trees, reeds, and quincha, a mud-covered wood
cane--San Pedro de Mórrope boasts a main altar built in the form of
a stepped pyramid, reminiscent of the 1,700-year-old mud-brick
burial mounds discovered more than a decade ago at the Moche site of
Sipán, just a few kilometers to the west.
Until recently,
exposure to the elements, including periodic torrential El Nińo
rains, took its toll on San Pedro de Mórrope, damaging its roof,
eroding the building's exterior plaster coating, and weakening adobe
walls. While high humidity spawned biological growth on wooden
supports, other architectural elements were damaged by water and
inappropriate repairs.
Following the chapel's inclusion on
WMF's 2002 Watch List of 100 Most Endangered Sites, a major
restoration campaign was launched. Completed just this month,
restoration work included not only conservation and stabilization of
the roof, walls, and interior decorative paintings, but also the
preservation and presentation of an extraordinary suite of
pre-Hispanic burials and architectural features discovered during
work to shore up the building's structural
supports.
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