Résumé en anglais
Under its Statutes ICOMOS must imperatively concern itself with "principles, techniques and policies for the conservation, protection, rehabilitation and enhancement of monuments, groups of buildings and sites" ( III.5.(b) ). The objection that the building heritage can be handled only as a series of individual cases - which is the kind of objection fairly generally raised to any theoretical approach - is directly contradicted by the experience offered by history.