THE PRESERVATION OF HISTORIC BUILDINGS AND ARTIFACTS

People are limited by the century that they were born in, they cannot  they cannot bear witness to other times in history; other wars, and other important situations. Even though they cannot experience other centuries, people have many “witnesses” to the rest of history; artifacts and historic buildings. Today, people are in a competition to build bigger homogeneous structures  unlike older historic buildings. These new style structures dominate  many large cities. Creating homogeneous and complex cities  satisfies societies and people cannot clearly notice the importance of historic buildings, as a result of this, people burn, damage and vandalise them. To conserve humanity’s history, we should draw attention to historic preservation.

All historic buildings and artefacts provide us with a way into history. Old buildings and areas are a way to connect with a place’s history; we can better understand history, if we know how to look at them. Historical preservation is a very important issue for us, because nowadays many historic buildings and artefacts are damaged in Syria, Iraq and Greece; because of crises and wars. We should take measures to preserve them, because understanding unique historical buildings and artefacts is the only way of experiencing history.

Historic preservation is also important to urban planning because planners make an effort to conserve old building styles and this represents a good combination of new and old. As a matter of fact that, unique historic structures are important in many respects  when they are compared to skyscrapers. Contrary to new cities, older cities had their interesting, unique historic buildings, hence we should encourage historic preservation to understand this presence of historical evidence and to create a less monotonous downtown landscape. These buildings are the identity of our culture and past.

To sum up, historic buildings and artefacts are one kind of reminder for us; we can watch our history from their perspectives. Historic structures should be preserved and understood with different approaches. The larger the number of historic building, the greater the number of witnesses of history; thus we should pay attention to them.

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