XX. századi műemlékek és védelmük (A 26. Egri Nyári Egyetem előadásai 1996 Eger, 1996)

Előadások: - Suzanne van Aerschot-van Haeverbeeck: Recording and protecting the architectural heritage of the twentieth century in Belgium and especially in Flanders

mendations of the Council of Europe, emphasizing the importance of a wide-spread inventory as an instrument for further protection of buildings and ensembles of archaeological, artistic and historical value. A two-persons at first, to be enlarged a bit later on, bilingual team of Art Historians was founded under the daily direction of Professor Dr. R.M. Lemaire; a small committee of Royal Commission Members acted as mentor. The aim was to produce quickly an overview-inventory, published for the whole country in French and in Dutch, the two official languages then. It was decided to work on an experimental and empirical basis in one specific district, in casu Leuven, which belongs to the Flemish part and to deal afterwards with the nearby district of Nivelles in the Walloon part. The threefold purpose was formulated after some discussion and common sense decisions. First of all the inventory had present a list of buildings, ensembles and sites which ought to be preserved in the future as important elements of the cultural heritage; besides the inventory intended to be a guide for urban and rural architecture; and finally it had to be a starting-point for a future scientific inventory. The methodology was based on quick fieldwork and a pure visual approach, to be completed by rough research in the most significant bibliography without any consultation of archives. The chronological limit was set round about the beginning of the nineteenth century, except for very important determinant younger buildings. This meant that the „progressive", ,,young" collaborators had to restrain themselves regretfully; in the very quickly studied area there wasn't much very significant „modern architecture"; but a few itemts were introduced, such as two dated Art Nouveau houses in Leuven, van de Velde's „Nouvelle Maison" (1926) in Tervuren, a modernistic house (1933) by J. Fransen in Heverlee/Leuven and a university college (1953—54) by P. Felix and G. Pepermans in Heverlee/Leuven together with a students' housing estate (1954) by R. Bastin in the same area. It is difficult to evaluate in what way the inventory publication (1971) contributed in to the protection of the entered items because there wasn't any real follow up in the Royal Commission, which was the split into two sections, as said previously. In the more rural district of Nivelles, published in 1973, there wasn't any chance to enter recent items of the same quality and importance. In the meantime the bilingual inventory team was split in the context of the cultural autonomy (cf. supra), so that the project to draw up a common inventory of Brussels was postponed. The Walloon colleagues went on with the inventory of Liege, which was published in 1974 and Möns, issued in 1975, according to the same almost visual methodology; as to Liege, some very recent work of the sixties and later was included, designed by prominent architects as Ch. Van den Hove and R. Bastin, among others in the new university campus of Sait Tilman. Recording and Protecting within the Flemish State Service of Monuments and Sites In Flanders the establishment of a State Service of Monuments and Sites in 1972, strangely enough lead to a slowing down of the systematical inventory-work even if this belonged to the main task and was already started in a new Flemish district, Halle-Vilvoorde, in the broad Brussels' surroundings. The new Service's collaborators were more occupied with preparing the restoration files for the Flemish section of the Royal Commission, which was more or less upset by the sudded creation of a new ,,independent" administrative staff.