Conserving modern buildings: consent or constraint?

Examines the challenges of conserving modern buildings: size, diversity, forms of ownership, new and cheap materials, changing technology, and rapidly dating fashions. Discusses need to ensure modern building conservation while allowing continued development and use, proposing the conservation management agreement as a way of protecting potentially important buildings. Summarizes that current procedures offer inadequate protection for modern buildings, and that changes must be recognized in order to save post‐war buildings.