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Protection of Cultural Heritage in Case of Armed Conflicts. He saw this as being particularly useful for emergency
Foramitti had a lot of experiences in this respect. There were interventions and in developing countries.
enough dreadful examples around in Austria and Europe from
World War II which he felt should never occur again.
Figure 3: The Zeiss TMK 60 with Foramitti's accessories
(1964)
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Foramitti travelled to erect the ICOMOS Blue Shields at many
cultural heritage sites, and he and his team collected photo-
grammetric stereo-images for an archive of. monuments. He
always said to be a collector of monuments. He was the author But
of a four volume handbook on the Protection of Cultural Fora
Heritage and it was Foramitti who started to publish the docu
Austrian Heritage Map (at 1:50.000). techi
Figure 5: Foramitti among his students (1976) worl
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ARCH V jut From 1968 to 1970 Foramitti took a leading role in the struc
ni ee CT ; foundation of CIPA. His close friend Maurice Carbonnell quak
became President of the pioneering group of eight, four from persi
ICOMOS and four from ISPRS. The contacts between the two tutio
parent societies of CIPA had been arranged by Carbonnell via mend
his office IGN in Paris, and by Foramitti first via Prof. Dr. UNE
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Franz Ackerl of the University of Agriculture Vienna and later
via Prof. Dr. Karl Neumaier, President of the Federal Office for
Standards and Surveying and Lecturer for photogrammetry at
the University of Technology. Both these men played a decisive
role in the Austrian and International Society of Photo-
grammetry. The Committee still meets, annually for discussions
and biennially for a public scientific symposium.
Between 1970 and 1974 international contacts took Foramitti t
several times to Mexico. Here he was a consultant to the
Churubusco Conservation Centre for Education and Training.
In 1981 Mexico opened a department for the architectural
photogrammetry of historic buildings, taking Foramitti's
Figure 4: A self-portrait: Foramitti as collector of monuments
(1963)
In 1968 Foramitti started teaching at the International Centre of f à Fix
Conservation in Rome (ICCROM), where he gave a highly department in Vienna as its model. Many other departments E
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appreciated course every year on the application and value of were to follow e.g. in Bonn and in Ankara.
photogrammetry as part of the conservation process. Foramitti n ; He wes
saw photogrammetry as a way of recording and documenting In 1973 Foramitti survived a. Serious, cat accident. £ e Forar
cultural goods and so providing protection against catastrophe obliged to reduce his activities and concentrated primarily on publi
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especially in the case of armed conflicts, earth quakes and fire. his duties in the Federal Office. techn
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