Eine Zukunft für unsere Vergangenheit

Under the motto A Future for Our Past, the European Architectural Heritage Year of 1975 was the most important and successful campaign of its time for the preservation and valorisation of architectural heritage in Europe. With its recognition of the importance of urbanistic ensembles, of the plurality within the categories of historic monuments, of citizens’ engagement, and finally, of legal and administrative measures for monument protection, this European campaign had a sustainable impact. Its programmatic approaches and conceptual ideas are of high importance for the present, and motivate new interpretations for the future. This publication is the first comprehensive appraisal of 1975 European Architectural Heritage Year for its 40th anniversary in 2015. More than 40 international authors comment on the participating countries, the campaign’s influences in the East Bloc Countries, and its Non-European reception. ICOMOS Austria has, with its two editors and in collaboration with ICOMOS committees of Germany, Luxemburg and Switzerland, initiated this third volume of the MONUMENTA series.