New Interventions in Conservation Areas; Preserving character through visio-structural reinforcement

Director John Smylie coins new architectural terms “visio-structurally positive” and “visio-structurally negative” in his 2006 paper “New Interventions in Conservation Areas; Preserving character through visio-structural reinforcement.” Presented at the international conference and published in the book “The Venice Charter Revisited: Modernism, Conservation and Tradition in the 21st Century” (Cambridge Scholars Publishing). You can read the piece here in Chapter 51.