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Petros Patias
CIPA President on
ISPRS Commission V President
president(@cipa.icomos.org
CIPA Heritage Documentation, Invited Paper
KEYWORDS: History, Cultural Heritage, Architecture, Close Range, Documentation, Recording, Archiving
ABSTRACT:
With the opportunity if celebration CIPA's 35" Anniversary, tribute is being paid to the pioneers at the field of Architectural
Photgrammetry and especially to Hans Foramitti. A brief historical note and the main accomplishments of CIPA during these 35
years are presented, together with a review of the critical issues in its evolution. The impact of the new technology is presented and
an outlook to the next years is attempted.
1. 35 YEARS OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS
It all began when on 4 — 6 July 1968 in Saint Mandé/Paris,
France, a Colloquium on the Applications of Photogrammetry
to Architecture organised by ICOMOS (International Council
on Monuments and Sites) and Maurice Carbonnell (CIPA's
Honorar President) with 36 participants from 11 countries.
The ISP (International Society of Photogrammetry) was
represented by Raymond Chevallier, President of Commission
VII. The Proceedings were edited by ICOMOS, Paris 1969
numbering 181 pages.
Among the important resolutions, it is quoted * ...To constitute
a joint ICOMOS-ISP Committee to further develop
Architectural Photogrammetry. ..".
In 1983, in an ICOMOS publication, M. Carbonell writes:
“ When, in 1968, the ICOMOS took the initiative of
convening the first international symposium on the application
of photogrammetry to historical monuments, a number, of
eminent experts were able to show how the current
requirements of the scientific study of historic buildings, and
conservation and restoration were creating an imperative need
for surveys that were accurate and reliable. It is primarily as a
result of this trend in the direction of a stricter attitude towards
the idea of conservation and of stricter standards for the
documentary records which must serve its needs that these last
twenty years have seen such revolutionary progress in
architectural photogrammetry.
But the symposium further stressed that "the initial effort to be
made must be an effort to break with habit and to become alive
to the efficacy, reliability and mastery which a few thousand
stereograms can afford the authorities in charge of the
conservation of historic buildings and ancient towns"
(A.J.Donzet). Architectural photogrammetry's "second chance"
was the achievement of those few men who proved capable of
making that "initial effort". One of them, Hans FORAMITTI
(1923-1982), had an outstanding role, and it is this above
everything that we wish to recall in the present brochure..."
(Carbonell, 1983)
In order to pay tribute to the role of this pioneer, CIPA decided
to celebrate its 35" anniversary with this session, named after
him.
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Deeply concerned as I was in those days by the speed at which =
the monuments of Turkey were deteriorating and being destroyed and des- thank
perately preoccupied to find à means of providing at least a speedy do-
cumentation, I found in Hans a close friend and a wise counsellor. He
had no difficulty in persuading me of the advantages of architectural
photogrammetry and we set to work at once to establish together a pho-
togrammetry laboratory.
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Figure 3: Cevat Erder about Hans Foram itti
Even at these early days, the importance of speedy
documentation (Fig. 3), and the maintenance of
