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Preservation Debates

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International Charter for the Conservation and Restoration of Monuments and Sites (The Venice Charter)

International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS)

Historic monuments must be conserved with their full historical layers intact and any necessary new work must be clearly distinguishable from the original, settling the field's founding argument between restoration and preservation in favour of preservation.

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On Restoration

Eugene Viollet-le-Duc

To restore a building is neither to preserve it, repair it nor rebuild it, but to reinstate it in a complete state that may never have actually existed at any one moment, and this reconstructive licence is a legitimate task for the architect-restorer, not a betrayal of the original.

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