JasonW
December 15th, 2010, 07:07 PM
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One thing I have always had a problem with is some people’s attitudes toward stewardship. More often than not, owners of historic buildings find it perfectly reasonable to justify their plans for maintaining or restoring a property based on how long it might be useful to them. Even though the structure may have been built 200 years ago or more and served many generations prior to the new owner’s tenure, they have no problem making conservation decisions that effectively reduce or eliminate the possibility that the building will last another 200 years.
I think the problem may be as simple as ownership versus stewardship.
In a handmade world, some things like wagons, wheelbarrows and shovels were meant to last long enough to serve our needs and then be reprocessed into other things like crates or firewood.
More Here (http://traditional-building.com/Rudy_Christian/?p=335)
One thing I have always had a problem with is some people’s attitudes toward stewardship. More often than not, owners of historic buildings find it perfectly reasonable to justify their plans for maintaining or restoring a property based on how long it might be useful to them. Even though the structure may have been built 200 years ago or more and served many generations prior to the new owner’s tenure, they have no problem making conservation decisions that effectively reduce or eliminate the possibility that the building will last another 200 years.
I think the problem may be as simple as ownership versus stewardship.
In a handmade world, some things like wagons, wheelbarrows and shovels were meant to last long enough to serve our needs and then be reprocessed into other things like crates or firewood.
More Here (http://traditional-building.com/Rudy_Christian/?p=335)