Topic: The Kathmandu Valley World Heritage Site and
the Search for Authenticity in Historic Urban Preservation
Speaker: Professor Eduard Sekler
Date: May 28, 2003, Wednesday
Time: 7:15PM
Location: Dudley House, Lehman Hall, and Harvard University.
Synopsis:
Professor Eduard Sekler will present a brief history of historic preservation (accompanied by slides) in Nepal will be followed by a discussion of the World Heritage Convention and its application in the Kathmandu Valley. The Darbar Squares of Bhaktapur and Patan will be selected as examples for the way authenticity may be preserved or endangered by historic preservation and other contemporary activities.
Speaker: Professor Eduard Sekler
Professor Eduard Sekler is co-founder, and was the first chairman, of the Kathmandu Valley Preservation Trust. He began his research in Nepal in 1962 and since then has been there 17 times, including missions for UNESCO as historic conservation advisor. He has led the team for the Master Plan for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage in the Kathmandu Valley and is the author of several publications about historic urban preservation in Nepal. Goetz Hagmueller, Carl Pruscha, and Erich Theophile, architects who made important contributions toward safeguarding the cultural heritage of the Kathmandu Valley, once were his students.
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