Protagonismo de las Administraciones públicas en el conocimiento real del Patrimonio Edificado

Abstract

Knowledge of the past, history, will always be mediated through the filter of subjective interpretation that every researcher necessarily interposes.Therefore, there is a definite need for methodological sets and analytical tools, in accordance with scientific method, able to minimize the unavoidable subjective components of research results. Building Archaeology proves to be a rigorous analytical tool for the acquisition of said knowledge and a necessary one for investigation of built reality. Knowledge of this discipline and its encouragement on the part of the agents responsible for documentation and conservation of building heritage (Administrations and technicians) will be more and more necessary from now onwards. I advocate for the need of Public Administrations requiring ex officio the systematic application of scientific method on the study and documentation of building heritage, prompting the personalized construction of “Historic-building Biographies” of catalogued goods. I also advocate for convergence of the aforementioned discipline with the domain of the remaining agents involved with heritage: architects, restorers, specialized technicians, managers and end users making it a more proximate, democratic and visible discipline.