{"id":14849,"date":"2017-02-03T17:03:15","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T17:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=14849"},"modified":"2017-02-03T17:10:14","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T17:10:14","slug":"a-chairs-short-journey-through-french-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=14849","title":{"rendered":"IHBC Chair\u2019s short journey through French architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/La_Porte_Martray_James_Caird_Context147-e1486141773573.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-14852\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/La_Porte_Martray_James_Caird_Context147-300x165.png\" alt=\"La Porte Martray\" width=\"300\" height=\"165\" \/><\/a>James Caird reflects on the history of French architecture and the tussle between attracting visitors while maintaining heritage sites.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In his Chairman\u2019s column in <em>Context<\/em> No.147, Caird ponders on the ebb and flow of tourists at Mont Saint-Michel and the tension in Carcassonne between the opposing philosophies of Viollet le Duc and Ruskin.<\/p>\n<p>He also discusses the impact of depopulation in places such as Loudun and the need to regenerate and enhance their historic urban environments \u2013 but how a national resource of thousands of measured drawings of historic architectural details available in heritage bookshops (<em>Les Albums du Centre de Recherches sur les Monuments Historiques<\/em>) has helped public understanding of the right way to do things.<\/p>\n<p>His journey through France also took him to the recent restoration of La Porte Martray and its complete re-facing, the restoration at Le Ch\u00e2teau d\u2019Azay-le-Rideau, the Baptisti\u00e8re Saint-Jean in Poitiers and Fontevraud abbey with its reconstructive restoration.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full <a href=\"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/context\/147\/index.html#38\/z\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Context<\/em>\u00a0article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Caird reflects on the history of French architecture and the tussle between attracting visitors while maintaining heritage sites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14849"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14853,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14849\/revisions\/14853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}