If the Venus de Milo Were Architecture, We Would Probably Have to Give Her Arms: Interview with Antoni González Moreno-Navarro

Abstract

Antoni González Moreno-Navarro has for over four decades been one of the outstanding figures in the field of architectural heritage preservation. Antoni’s theoretical contribution has been vital to spreading a wider and more comprehensive concept of “authenticity” in the built environment. At the time he was also pioneering in his contention that a vision of “authenticity” too closely attached to materiality jeopardized the conservation of the main heritage values of the buildings or ensembles to be preserved. Antoni has thus been an advocate of restoration not just as material preservation but as a process respectful of the architectural, historic, and community values of the structures concerned.