Donald Judd on the importance of the past for new art & architecture
Click here to download Donald Judd's "Art & Architecture" essay originally published in Res Anthropology and Aesthetics, n. 7/8 (Spring/Fall 1984), pp. 147-54.
Legal scholar on cultural property in the global domain
Click here to download John Henry Merryman's "Two Ways of Thinking About Cultural Property" from The American Journal of International Law, Vol. 80, No. 4. (Oct., 1986), pp. 831-853.
Cultural heritage appropriation in Africa
Click here to download Kwame Anthony Appiah's "Whose Culture Is It?" from The New York Review of Books, v. 53, n. 2 from February 9, 2006.
Urban legacy in divided cities compared
Click here to download Scott A. Bollens' "City and soul: Sarajevo, Johannesburg, Jerusalem, Nicosia" in City, v. 5, n. 2, 2001.
Critique of ethnic basis for civil conflict
Click here to download Ronnie Lipschutz & Beverly Crawford's " 'Ethnic' Conflict Isn’t" from the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation IGCC Policy Briefs (University of California, Multi-Campus Research Unit), 1995.
Ecology of fear in Los Angeles
Click here to download and excerpt from Mike Davis' Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster. New York: Metropolitan Books, 1998.
Non-iconic reading of the cultural heritage landscape
Click here to download Miles Glendinning's paper "Beyond the Cult of the Monument" presented at the IHBC Annual School in Glasgow on “The conservation movement: a cult of the modern age”, 2001.
Process-orientation in conservation
Click here to download Trevor H.J. Marchand's "Process over Product: Inverting the Emphasis in Sustainable Conservation", a thesis paper from Department of Anthropology School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London, 2001.
Nietzsche on the Utility of History in Life
Click here to download Friedrich Nietzsche's “On the Utility and Liability of History in Life” (from the unpublished notebooks of 1872-74) published most recently in Unfashionable Observations Stanford, 1995.
Fitch on the Uses and Misuses of History
Click here to download an excerpted chapter entitled "The Uses of History" from J.M. Fitch's Architecture and the Aesthetics of Plenty, New York: Columbia University Press, 1961.
R. W. Emerson on History
Click here to download an essay entitled "History" from Emerson's Essays, First Series, 1837.
