Author(s)

Khaled Mohamed Dewidar

Abstract

For architects who pioneered and developed the modern movement, the architectural theory of Viollet Le Due was useful, precisely because it helped them to break free the historical past and the theoretical tradition of earlier architecture. In our own time, when preservation has assumed as great an urgency as the continued development of modernity, Viollet Le Due's ideas about preservation of old structures have acquired a new import and offered valuable insights to patrons and builder alike. Perhaps, it may be as well to endeavor at the outset to gain an exact notion of what we understand by restoration. I shall simply try to present in my argument, based on the concept of a model as realized by Viollet le Due's Gothic example, an apt instrument for different restoration proje

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