# History at a Turning Point: Why We Have To Re-Think Conservation

- Institution: Gresham College
- Speaker: Professor Simon Thurley CBE
- Year: 2016
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: History, Literature and writing, Art, architecture and design
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/series/history-turning-point-why-we-have-rethink-conservation)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

How far can experimental buildings of the 1960s and '70s be altered for new uses? Should there be new rules for a new era of conservation?

## Lectures

1. [Saving the Twentieth Century](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-history-turning-point-why-we-have-rethink-conservation/fe6e68ba50bf) (YouTube)
2. [Tough Choices: Heritage or Housing?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-history-turning-point-why-we-have-rethink-conservation/9e04a525dab1) (YouTube)
3. [Perfection or Pastiche? New Buildings in Old Places](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-history-turning-point-why-we-have-rethink-conservation/1d5cbbe88965) (YouTube)
4. [The Value of Heritage and the Heritage of Value](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-history-turning-point-why-we-have-rethink-conservation/63c7d1da6018) (YouTube)