When Do Buildings Begin to Matter? Rethinking Heritage in Local Time

Maratha Military Landscapes of India. Image © Rashmi.parab via Wikimedia Commons, under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unlocalized Version LicenseA building still being adjusted, repaired, and debated is declared World Heritage. Another, equally influential, must survive five centuries before anyone considers protecting it. This is not an anomaly in the heritage system; it is the system. Across the world, architecture does not age at the same pace because time itself is not neu