The teaching of the heritage protection and revitalization of historical cities at the faculties of architecture /in the field of architecture/ in Lithuania

Abstract

The report was aiming to identify the relevant educational, public and private- professional bodies who would assist to Sustainable Urban Rehabilitation in Europe (SURE) VGTU project team, while answering general question on educational status of the teaching of the rehabilitation of historic towns in Lithuania, and drawing critical guidelines for the background of the future vision of this topic. With the assistance of those bodies report tries to provide the status of art of the character of architectural education, qualifi cation and skills transferred and character of the courses in Lithuania in relation to the Rehabilitation of the Historic Towns. The questionnaires for the opinion pooling, submitted by the project Leader to the VGTU project group, after the translation in to the Lithuanian language were sent to the selected threefold type of the recipients: i) educational, ii) public, iii) private- professional. This has been done because of the need to reach the multiangled level of answers, based on the involvement of these bodies in processes of education, practice and decision taking. The recipients were sought and selected with two levels, as it was requested by the project terms. Project team communicated with 50 recipients, whom questionnaires and letters of intent were sent from October till end of the 2016. The replies were received from the 22 and completed questionnaires were received from 18 respondents. On the other side, local project group considered the scale and quality of the answers as rather substantial and informative one. The whole document is attached to this report as attachment No.1. The report is structured in three parts were through the: I presentation of the general picture of the architectural education in the country, it`s past and present and data on the demands by labor market and regulations by the professional requirements are presented, II analysis from the answers in a questionnaires on the skills required in the fi eld of desired qualifi cation to be achieved for the suiting the problems of the rehabilitation of the historic towns in the country, III characteristics of the teaching of heritage protection and revitalization of cities in the systems of education, with the attempt to draw the a proposal for a model curriculum in the field of heritage protection and revitalization of historical towns.