Crossing the Mirror of Heritage:Reflections on the Meaning of Contemporary Architectural Heritage
The paper analyzes the phenomenon of heritage inflation and worship faced by French architectural history and theory scholar Francoise Choay in the development of contemporary architectural heritage,and explains her concerns about the trend of contemporary architectural heritage protection.Choay used a subtle metaphor of the Mirror of Heritage to explain the deep connection between the expansion of architectural heritage and the social background of the"Complementary Art Revolution".At the same time,the viewpoint was also proposed that heritage worship is an irrational phenomenon of narcissism.In order to address the social trauma represented by this phenomenon,it was proposed that restoring her attributed"construction ability"is a reasonable way to cross the mirror of heritage.
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