Call for Papers: Cadernos do Arquivo Municipal
The call is now open for the proposal of new papers for the forthcoming number of the academic journal CADERNOS DO ARQUIVO MUNICIPAL. The aim of this journal is to disseminate and publicise the documentation housed at the Lisbon Municipal Archive.
Number 16
Thematic Dossier:
The materials of historical interest that build up the urban heritage: correlations, uses, landscapes
Marluci Menezes, António Santos Silva, Maria do Rosário Veiga
LNEC – Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil
Construction materials help to define the image of cities and places, steading the idea of a built heritage connected to a physical, social and cultural environment. These materials include coverings by stone, brick, wood, pigments, metal, a sort of varied materials that come from nature which human societies transform giving them life in different shapes, ways and styles, and then from a great number of mixtures, uses and combinations is created cultural value by distinguishing heritage places. How can we appreciate fruitfully the urban heritage regarding building materials of historical interest?
Their creative use cannot be apart from the development of cities, opened new perspectives for their presence in the urban mesh and helped to define landscapes worthy of recognition as heritage. This reading proposes to highlight these materials as sensitivity references to an attentive comprehension of the urban built heritage. Not recording historical-artistic patterns, but correlations that point to processes, memories, styles, shapes, techniques, compositions, textures, knowledge that witness heritage environments from their relations with society, culture, geography and history.
To this Thematic Dossier, we suggest to focus on these materials, having in mind the relation between built heritage, knowledge and society. It is proposed a multidisciplinary, wide and diversified approach of the various aspects that influence the patrimonial existence of cities. It aims to explore diversified aspects of mediation between these materials and cultural heritage. Thus, all are invited to present creative and original studies and reflections.
Papers will be submitted to a double-blind peer review, conducted by members of an external evaluation committee.
Reproduction of the records from the Lisbon Municipal Archive necessary for the preparation of papers will be provided free of charge.
More information: Arquivo Municipal de Lisboa website
