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Abstract
The following study is about the method of surveying historic buildings applied by the Department for History of Architecture and of Monuments of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. The true-to-form architectural survey is based on the method used in ``Bauforschung´´, the building archaeology practice developed and widely used in Germany. In this context, survey is not only a tool of documentation but is considered as a research method in itself. The authors discuss the importance of the on-the-spot analysis of the building and the role and place of architectural survey in the whole process of monument preservation, as well as the possible adaptation of the method presented under different circumstances. The examples are stages of the monument documentation work carried out on the Cathedral of Saint Michael in Alba Iulia (Gyulafehérvár), Romania.
Highlights
Our actual study presents the possibilities of applying the true-to-form architectural survey as a monument research method based on the experiences of work recently carried out on the Cathedral of Saint Michael in Alba Iulia (Gyulafehérvár), Romania by the Department for History of Architecture and of Monuments of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics
In accordance with our conviction, historical buildings research cannot be the scene of rivalry among the professions of archaeology, art history and architecture; the discourse on the methods has to rise above the desire for the exclusiveness of procedures applied in certain workshops
By the word “Bauforschung” [1, 2, 5, 8, 10, 16] we mean a complex building research process which includes the archival research, the critical analysis of the scientific literature and the reflections of style criticism, as well as the restoration and archaeological explorations in which the architects, art historians and archaeologists find their own fields of duties
Summary
Our actual study presents the possibilities of applying the true-to-form architectural survey as a monument research method based on the experiences of work recently carried out on the Cathedral of Saint Michael in Alba Iulia (Gyulafehérvár), Romania by the Department for History of Architecture and of Monuments of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics.
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