The Council on Training in Architectural Conservation (COTAC) has been busy during the Covid restrictions producing free downloadable on-line COTAC learning and study material. And there are more in the pipeline.
Formed in 1959, COTAC’s stated objectives are:
- to advance the education and training of all those involved in the protection and preservation of the historic environment that is of cultural, architectural or historical value, and
- to provide knowledge in support of training and education in the arts and skills required to protect and preserve that historic environment.
The Council’s related website, understandingconservation.org continues to be freely available as a COTAC on-line personal learning resource to develop and further conservation knowledge and skills.
Newly available is The Need to Appreciate the Built Heritage series of six units compiled by Barry J Bridgwood and Ingval Maxwell. They can be downloaded from bit.ly/CotacInsight1.
Students, the general public, trades and professionals wanting to gain an appreciation of practical heritage conservation can all benefit from these units.
To accompany each of the six Handbooks there are separate sets of 24 full-page images.
The focus is on gaining a comprehensive understanding of what built heritage is all about and how it can be better protected.