WMF Journal
September 10, 2010
Field Mission to Bafut, Cameroon: Part 2, Bafut Palace
Posted by Stephen Battle, WMF’s Program Specialist for African Architectural Heritage
Behind the Achum Shrine are houses used by secret societies run by the priests in the traditional religion of the Bafut people. Each priest is responsible for a different spiritual realm. My colleague, Raymond Asombang, holds a Ph.D. in Archaeology from London University and is an eminent professor in Cameroon. He is also a member of Bafut's religious society that cleanses the sky of evil.
Read moreSeptember 9, 2010
Field Mission to Bafut, Cameroon: Part 1, Achum Shrine
Posted by Stephen Battle, WMF’s Program Specialist for African Architectural Heritage
I travelled recently to Bafut in Cameroon to inspect the ongoing conservation work at Bafut Palace. Put on the Watch in 2006, the palace was in a critical condition. Many of the original tiled roofs had collapsed or were badly decayed. Progress has been dramatic since then.
Read moreAugust 15, 2010
Update on Teatro Capitólio
Posted by Fernando Jorge, Citizens for Capitólio
During a May 2009 visit to New York, members of Citizens for Capitólio, a Lisbon-based watchdog group which has campaigned for Teatro Capitólio (1925-31) in Lisbon, took the opportunity to call in at World Monuments Fund, which had placed the building on their 2006 Watch list of endangered sites.
Read moreJuly 20, 2010
Field Trip to Brooklyn Bridge Park
Posted by Ioannis Avramides
On July 15, 2010, the staff of WMF’s New York headquarters had the opportunity to tour Brooklyn Bridge Park, an 85-acre park designed by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates that is currently under construction along the Brooklyn waterfront.
Read moreJune 14, 2010
On the third day that WMF hosted a group of 20 conservation architects from France, we met near Lincoln Center on a sunny and warm spring morning. We were joined by Glenn Boornazian from Integrated Conservation Resources, as well as Norma Barbacci, WMF’s Program Director for Latin America, Spain, and Portugal.
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