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

Nevertheless the material of Halle-Vilvoorde was issued in the existing series „Building through the centuries" in 1975. Although the methodology was still the same, the chronological limit was shifted to the end of the nineteenth century and more attention was paid to average

,,traditional" buildings and industrial constructions;

,,significant modern architecture" of which fine examples were found in the Brussels' outskirts were included as well. Some of the houses of the interbellum period were selected on the basis of their representativity and their architectural quality, the architect's reputation etc.; Among them were the Villa (1929) by M. Leborgne in St.Genesius-Rode, with a picture in the book on p. 560, and the the rowhouses (1928—1929) by A. Pompe in the same place, reproduced on p. 562. It's interesting to observe now that both items got special mention, pointing out that those works deserved a legal protection, what finally only happened respectively in 1990 and 1996. Postwar works were also introduced such as the important Urwater Houe (1957) by J. Dupuis, with its picture on p. 559 and other villa's and small estates from the fifties and later, a.o. works by the architects R. Braem and W. Van der Meren. Again architectural reviews and the book of G. Bekaert and J. Strauven n the 1940—70 architecture, „Bouwen in België, 1940—1970" directed our attention to this recent heritage. Besides the increasing attention to the so-called industrial archeology led to the insertion of a remarkable viaduct in concrete from 1929, reproduced in the book as well; in the same context an interesting malt-house (1720, ca. 1890 and ca. 1935) in the centre of the old town of Halle was largely described and documented (p. 222—224); it became a legally protected monument in 1993. The explanation for this delay is related to the fact that there wasn't enough personnel for keeping an immediate follow up in the concerned Province of Brabant where the inventory was achieved. In the context of the European Year of the Architectural Heritage (1975) and the International Womens'Year the Flemish Minister of Culture, Mrs R. De Backer-Van Ocken erected a brand new inventory-team of some 20, mainly female collaborators. Those unemployed art historians and some historians coming straight from university, started as a new inventory section with the State Service of Monuments and Sites. Updated purposes With the transitional publication of the Halle-Vilvoorde district in mind a new methodology for the inventory was designed, respecting the threefold basic purposes of the „experimentál period", but re-formulated according to the new situation. The position of the inventory-team within the State Service of Monuments and Sites meant its participation into the process leading from recording to official protection and its integration into a broader staff involved in the conservation/restoration problems in general and the evolution of the doctrine in this field. So the first aim of the basic inventory was accentuated and enlarged with a link to people's participation; the more popularizing aim that it should be a guide to the architecture in the area under study remained unchanged but got an additional informative connotation; the scientific aim, of being a starting point for further study was broadened to any form of research in the heritage field. In the new prefaces of the inventory publications since 1976 the first aim is formulated as „being an instrument to be applied as a starting-point for drafting lists of monuments and urban and rural sites that ought to be legally protected; the basic documentation that has been gathered allows for a survey of the existing architectural heritage and facilitates the evaluation with a view to future protection proposals".