NETZWERK LEHM Vortrag: John Harrison, Teil II – Architectural Documentation and Restoration of Earthen Buildings in the Old City of Lhasa (Lecture in English)

A Blessing for the Land. Architectural Documentation and Restoration of Earthen Buildings in the Old City of Lhasa, Tibet (Vortrag in englischer Sprache)

Nach seinem erfolgreichen Vortrag vom 24.1. des Vorjahres über die Restaurierung des Munshi Hauses in Leh/Ladakh, kommt John Harrison dieses Jahr wieder nach Wien, diesmal um über seine Forschungstätigkeiten über Lehmarchitektur in Lhasa/Tibet zu berichten.

John Harrison is a British architect John Harrison is a British architect who has been travelling in the Himalaya for over thirty years, documenting and restoring historic buildings. He has experience in managing complex preservation projects, including research of historic documents and traditional earthen building materials. The restoration and conversion of the Munshi House in Leh old town as a community arts centre has recently been given an Award of Distinction in the 2018 UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation. Current projects are in Ladakh (India), Purang (TAR, China) as well as in Kathmandu und Mustang, Nepal.  What distinguishes his current work in Nepal is the training of local students of architecture and conservators on site. His exhibition ‘Himalayan Buildings’  has been shown widely in South Asia and Europe; and an exhibition of his ‘Mustang drawings’ at the Taragaon Museum in Kathmandu in 2018.

In this talk he will describe his work with Tibet Heritage Fund in the old city of Lhasa twenty years ago, in the brief period when foreign NGOs were permitted to work in Chinese Tibet.