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March 19, 2014

Centro Casa Klumb

Casa Klumb is an architect’s residence, which isn’t a novel thing in itself, since an architect tends to desire to build his or her own house as a testament to his or her views on architecture, or as a laboratory in which to rehearse ideas.

February 27, 2014

Battir: Relic from the Past, Signpost for the Future

For a teenager in Jerusalem in the early 1980s, Battir was an inspiring short hike away to the outskirts of the dormant city. I recall following shepherds leading their herds between the neighborhoods through the open wadis, treading history alongside them.

February 25, 2014

Angkor and Preah Vihear: Tale of Two Khmer Cities

I arrived in Cambodia in the middle of the Chinese New Year’s celebrations, and although Cambodians celebrate the new year in April, Siem Riep at the end of January was teeming with tourists and red envelopes hanging from trees.

February 20, 2014

Remembrance of a Storied Past

Bukit Brown, a former municipal cemetery from 1922 to 1973, is most often known as a cemetery for Chinese pioneers of Singapore. Here are stories of educators, philanthropists, community leaders, and champions of women's rights. Fortunes were made and lost, sometimes remade, through sheer hard work, serendipity, or, sometimes, less-than-savory business practices of the day.

February 11, 2014

Hidden Heritage: Britain’s Best Beneath Concrete

It takes a little imagination to visualise the heritage of Deptford dockyard and Sayes Court garden beneath the mud and concrete surface. But it’s there. Physically, there are extensive and significant archaeological remains underground that map out the former dockyard. And in spirit, there are many local people who have the foresight and sheer determination to fight for their national heritage.

February 05, 2014

Bidar Utsav 2014

Bidar Utsav, the festival to honor the historic city, was celebrated with joy from February 1 to 3, and the numbers related to the festival were impressive. Over 200,000 people attended the three-day event, including dignitaries, members of the legislative assembly, and author Hellen Philon, who urged art lovers and civil society members to strive to protect the rich culture and monuments of the region.

January 29, 2014

Santa Maria Antiqua the Focus of Three-Day Conference in Rome

When I first visited Santa Maria Antiqua in 2001, I could not have imagined that the culmination of the conservation program would be a stimulating three-day conference at the British School at Rome. I was fortunate to visit Santa Maria Antiqua with a certain regularity over the years.

January 27, 2014

The Ngada House, a Spiritual Guardian

Between two live volcanos, Gunung Inerie and Gunung Deru, lies the Ngada village of Guru Sina on Flores, Indonesia, with a total of 27 sa’o (houses)—not more, not less—lived in, maintained, and reconstructed when necessary.

January 21, 2014

An Overview of the Challenges Facing the Great Synagogue of Iaşi

The Great Synagogue of Ia?i is one of two synagogues left in Ia?i and is the oldest existing Jewish religious architectural monument in Romania.

January 14, 2014

Introducing Wat Chaiwatthanaram, the Temple of Victory and Progress

On January 9, at the National Museum in Bangkok, a ceremony commemorated an award of $700,000 to World Monuments Fund from the Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation and the U.S. Embassy of Bangkok for ongoing conservation activities at Wat Chaiwatthanaram, a seventeenth-century Buddhist temple in Ayutthaya, the former capital of the Siamese kingdom of the same name.

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