Experts Meeting Developing an Historic Thematic Framework to Assess the Signifi cance of Twentieth-Century Cultural Heritage: An Initiative of the ICOMOS International Scientifi c Committee on Twentieth- Century Heritage May 10-11, 2011 Meeting Report Developing an Historic Thematic Framework to Assess the Signifi cance of Twentieth-Century Cultural Heritage: An Initiative of the ICOMOS International Scientifi c Committee on Twentieth-Century Heritage An Exper t Meeting Hosted by the Get t y Conser vation Institute, Los Angeles, CA, May 10-11, 2011 Susan Macdonald and Gail Ostergren THE GETTY CONSERVATION INSTITUTE LOS ANGELES © 2011 J. Paul Getty Trust The Getty Conservation Institute 1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 700 Los Angeles, CA 90049-1684 United States Telephone 310 440-7325 Fax 310 440-7702 E-mail
[email protected] www.getty.edu/conservation The Getty Conservation Institute works internationally to advance conservation practice in the visual arts— broadly interpreted to include objects, collections, architecture, and sites. The GCI serves the conservation com- munity through scientifi c research, education and training, model fi eld projects, and the dissemination of the results of both its own work and the work of others in the fi eld. In all its endeavors, the GCI focuses on the creation and delivery of knowledge that will benefi t the professionals and organizations responsible for the conservation of the world’s cultural heritage. Cover: Theme Building, Los Angeles International Airport, as seen in 2005. Photo: Gail Ostergren, GCI Developing an Historic Thematic Framework to Assess the Signifi cance of Twentieth-Century Cultural Heritage Background to the meeting Internationally, professional and scholarly interest in the identifi cation, conserva- tion, and promotion of twentieth-century heritage places is growing, yet signifi cant works of the era are underrepresented on heritage registers from local inventories to the World Heritage List.