The five-year program does not have a course that is called “conservation”. However, we teach a subject called “Ecology of Architecture” – it is an area in which we reflect on the experience of the built environment. We draw on the fields of environmental psychology to deal with perception; we consider the role of the senses, touch, sound smell, as well as vision, from the perspective of how they lead to an understanding of the built environment. In that context also, we introduce issues of “sustainability”, including the re-use of historic buildings. This allows us to deal with the fact that our perceptions and value systems are intimately connected with how we act – the connection between ideas and technologies through which we, as architects, intervene to shape the future. Later in the program there is subject called “Design Technologies”. Within that subject students may choose to study the use of materials in historic buildings, the decay mechanisms that affect them, and the implications for intervention.
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