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iCCroM 10 Conservation

studies

Conserving the authentic

essays in honour of Jukka Jokilehto

ICCROM 10

Conservation

Studies

Conserving the authentic

essays in honour of Jukka Jokilehto

Edited by

Nicholas Stanley-Price and Joseph King

Conserving the authentic: essays in honour of Jukka Jokilehto Edited by Nicholas Stanley-Price and Joseph King ICCROM Conservation Studies 10

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Front cover: from watercolours of Florence and Fiesole by Jukka Jokilehto (1964)

Back cover: from a watercolour of San Francesco a Ripa, Rome by Bernard Feilden

Preface

This collection of essays has been assembled to honour Jukka Jokilehto. They celebrate the many contributions that he has made to conservation theory and practice for nearly forty years, a substantial achievement to which he continues to add. The essays are written by a number of his friends and colleagues who were invited to contribute to this volume.

All of them have benefited from Jukka’s wisdom and experience, as employers, as former students, as colleagues on training courses, as partners on missions and as participants in meetings at the highest international levels.

It is because Jukka’s knowledge is so broad and his experience so wide that no volume of essays could fully reflect them. Moreover, as in all walks of life, it is not only the expertise and professional knowledge that mark the man but also the personal qualities that lead to his being esteemed and admired by his peers. We have therefore organised the volume so that the first section consists of tributes to Jukka the man (a section that also reflects indirectly the development of international conservation over the past thirty years). The other two sections focus on the field in which he first made his name (the conservation of buildings) and on those themes that have increasingly occupied him in recent years (authenticity and World Heritage). Part 4 (Jukka’s published writings) has in some ways been the most challenging to assemble, such has been his prolific output which fortunately shows no signs of diminishing.

The idea of compiling a volume of essays in honour of Jukka arose in informal discussions in March 2007. These involved Professor Kanefusa Masuda of Ritsumeikan University in Japan, Dr. Azar Soheil Jokilehto, Professor Calogero Bellanca and Dr. Yumi Akieda (translator into Japanese of Jukka’s History of Architectural Conservation). They all deserve our thanks for promoting this initiative which has now been realised.

We owe a great debt, above all, to Azar Soheil Jokilehto, who – in addition to contributing a valuable essay on Jukka’s early career at ICCROM – has helped ceaselessly in bibliographical research and in the hunt for images. It is appropriate that this volume finds a place in ICCROM’s Conservation Studies series; for seeing it through the publication process we are indebted to Mónica García Robles and to many other ICCROM colleagues, in particular María Mata Caravaca, ICCROM archivist, for help in locating images and Sonia Widmer for communicating with authors. As editors we also thank the referees who reviewed some of the papers and those who allowed us to use their images.

May these essays give as much pleasure and inspiration to Jukka as he has given to so many others.

Nicholas Stanley-Price and Joseph King

September 2009

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vi CULTURAL HERITAGE AND THE LAW

Foreword

Jukka Jokilehto was a staff member of ICCROM from 1972 until his retirement in 1998. He started his career at ICCROM as a course assistant to the International Architectural Conservation Course and during the subsequent years served as a Course Director, Chief of the Sector of Architectural Conservation, and Assistant to the Director General. From 1988

onwards, he was a part of the senior management group at ICCROM, and as such was a member of the team responsible for developing policies, strategies, and programmes for the organisation.

Jukka’s contribution to ICCROM, however, cannot be summed up by his official job titles or administrative responsibilities. Rather, his legacy can be found in the thousands of people trained through the Architectural Conservation Course and the many other courses that ICCROM has offered over the past 38 years. It can also be found in the research projects and technical missions that he undertook in his time at ICCROM, collaborating with Member States on six continents. Perhaps most importantly, his legacy rests in the contribution that he has made to the development of conservation philosophy, theory, and concepts. His book, A History of Architectural Conservation, remains the standard text on this topic and has been translated into many languages. His work on authenticity, significance, and Outstanding Universal Value, as well as his development of important concepts related to urban and landscape conservation, has been much appreciated by the professional conservation community.

During his time at ICCROM, Jukka served under five Directors General: Paul Philippot, Bernard Feilden, Cervat Erder, Andrzej Tomaszewski, and Marc Laenen. While I was not fortunate enough to have been at ICCROM during his tenure, I did have the pleasure of working closely with Jukka over many years at UNESCO as Director of Cultural Heritage, Director of the World Heritage Centre, and Assistant Director General for Culture. I have had the pleasure of participating in a number of missions with him and benefitting from his vast knowledge of training strategies. I have also admired his professionalism and his scientific rigour during his involvement as ICOMOS evaluator of World Heritage Sites.

When I became Director General of ICCROM in 2006, I was happy to find that Jukka still played an active role as a consultant to ICCROM on individual activities. I offered him a symbolic “one euro” contract as Special Advisor to the Director General in order to recognise more formally his contributions to the organisation, and to ensure that his wise counsel would remain available to ICCROM staff into the future.

It is for this reason that I add my own voice to that of the other authors in honouring the important work that Jukka has carried out since he arrived at ICCROM in 1971. Much has changed in the conservation field in the subsequent 38 years, and Jukka has played an important role in shaping those changes, in documenting them, and in disseminating them through ICCROM’s courses and through his ample output of papers and books. It therefore gives me great pleasure in being able to contribute this foreword to the essays in honour of Jukka Jokilehto.

Mounir Bouchenaki

Director-General, ICCROM

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Jukka the man: an appreciation