Bulletin de l'ISPAN, No 32: The Gingerbread houses of Port-au-Prince, part one: the origins of the form and its construction
Summary: The Bulletin de l'ISPAN, No 32, of 1 April 2013. The issue covers The Gingerbread houses of Port-au-Prince, part one: the origins of the form and its construction. The Bulletin is the publication of Haiti's national heritage institute, which documents the country's built heritage monument by monument, its state of conservation and the work carried out on it. 7 pages.
Key Findings
- The issue traces the Gingerbread houses of Port-au-Prince to nineteenth-century architectural eclecticism, industrial prefabrication and Haitian adaptation of European forms.
- It links the spread of this architecture to the late nineteenth-century growth and expansion of Port-au-Prince beyond its original limits.
- The bulletin presents Gingerbread houses as both heritage assets and useful references for reconstruction because many resisted the 12 January 2010 earthquake despite age and poor maintenance.
- The issue is drawn from the exhibition Les maisons Gingerbread de Port-au-Prince, produced with ICOMOS-Haiti, the Institut du Patrimoine Wallon, World Monuments Fund and ISPAN.
- The chronicle reports the restoration and seismic strengthening of the Jacmel Court of First Instance, combining conservation with structural reinforcement.
- The Jacmel project used metal bracing, ISPAN supervision and participation from students of the Ecole-Atelier de Jacmel.
Full Description
The Bulletin de l'ISPAN, No 32, of 1 April 2013. The issue covers The Gingerbread houses of Port-au-Prince, part one: the origins of the form and its construction. The Bulletin is the publication of Haiti's national heritage institute, which documents the country's built heritage monument by monument, its state of conservation and the work carried out on it. 7 pages.
How to cite
Institute for the Protection of National Heritage (ISPAN), 2013, Bulletin de l'ISPAN, No 32: The Gingerbread houses of Port-au-Prince, part one: the origins of the form and its construction, https://www.dloc.com/AA00065766/00021