Heritage

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Monumental Lies

Robert’s recent book Monumental Lies: Culture Wars and the Truth about the Past is proving a critical success. The book examines the politicisation of the historic environment and reminds us why material evidence matters so much. It has been a book of the year in the Financial Times,  the Art Newspaper and elsewhere. Robert is undertaking a…

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Eileen Gray

Can a house have a £MeToo moment? Restoring Eileen Gray’s pioneering house

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Gobelki Tepe

The world’s oldest temple. Did architecture begin here?

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The Meaning of Mali

Heritage and human rights. The Meaning of Mali

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British Council

Launching the Cultural Protection Fund.

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Palmyra

The Ethics of Reconstruction. Palmyra

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Target Heritage

From Mali to Bangladesh and beyond, ideology is making a target of cultural heritage.

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Iconoclasm as genocide warning

Attacks on buildings conveying cultural identity can be a warning of incipient ethnic cleansing or genocide.

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World Heritage Convention at 40

Is the world heritage convention having a midlife crisis? Published as: World Heritage at 40: success or mess? in THE ART NEWSPAPER Number 240, November 2012

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Neues Museum, Berlin

David Chipperfield’s masterpiece used Bevan’s book, The Destruction of Memory as a guide to its critical reconstruction.

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Minaretphobia

Racism is behind the fight against building minarets in the West.

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The Destruction of Memory

One of the ten best architecture books says The Independent.  This analysis of attacks on architecture helped define a new field of study.

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9/11 Memorial

High finance and low politics undermines commemoration at Ground Zero.

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Common Ground

An essay on Islamophobia and the stand-off between heritage and the  avant-garde commissioned for a critical reader accompanying the 2012 Venice Biennale.

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Heritage Journalism

Journalism about historic architecture and places and issues relating to material culture, including looting and provenance and human rights, is a consistent element of Robert Bevan’s heritage advocacy.

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Cultural Genocide

Why culture should be central to the definition of genocide.

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New Orleans

New Orlean’s history and identity are in danger from its misconceived rebuilding programme.