BLOG #6 - Postgraduate Studies

I would love to do a Master's Degree in Conservation of Architectural Heritage when I finish my career. I'd like to do that Master's in Italy, ideally in Milan. If I could, I'd like to travel there and live the experience of studying in an Italian classroom.

In Chile, we have a mediocre legislation around Architectural Heritage: no support for the owners of buildings cataloged as Architectural Heritage, unbearable bureaucracy to do any modifications on them, poor regulation to integrate them to the contemporary lifestyle of our cities, no help from the government to administrate them, etc.

I think we could learn a lot about how European countries preserve and manage their Architectural Heritage Buildings. They have already studied their over two thousand years of buildings and the best ways to protect them from damage while including them to the everyday life of their cities.

I would like to study about restoration of damaged materials, building rehabilitation (transformations to give new uses to them), and architectural heritage buildings administration (so they can keep working even if the government refuses to help).

All this knowledge could help us to protect our architectural heritage buildings better while allowing people to make use of them and integrate them into their everyday life as places of recreation, culture, and learning. I would love to dedicate myself to that.