Briefing

What's so bad about buildings crumbling away?

By 2017-09-22T06:00:00

Charles Stanislas Léveillé, Capriccio — Students Before a Gothic Ruin, c. 1805.

In this extract from her provocative book, Caitlin DeSilvey challenges the received wisdom that heritage must always be conserved

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