Documentación de las intervenciones de conservación-restauración del patrimonio arquitectónico: perspectiva histórica, situación actual y tendencias de futuro

Abstract

The documentation of cultural heritage conservation-restoration interventions includes the methodological processes and records generated before, during and after them, influencing the preservation of cultural heritage. The objective of this research is to analyse the recommendations and regulations that delimit these processes, studying their evolution until their current situation, both internationally and nationally.  To this end, international doctrine, the Spanish Historical Heritage Law, regional laws and the review of the contributions of the preliminary draft reform of the LPHE are analysed. The results show that, in the international doctrine, the regulations extend or complement the previous ones. In the case of Spain, each autonomous community has territorial laws that established the intervention processes that must be documented, although with differences between them. Finally, the legislative updates show the tendency to delimit the needs of the documentation of conservation-restoration, and to include preventive programs as a requirement within the intervention project.