Students’ research displayed at National Trust exhibition

Final year degree students from the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Technology participated in this year's exhibition by the National Trust of Guyana to celebrate International Monuments and Sites Day 2012.  A UNESCO approved event, International Monuments and Sites Day is held on April 18 every year; this year's theme is ‘World Heritage and Sustainable Development: the Role of Local Communities.’

The seven students, who are currently researching and documenting historic buildings within the strip of Georgetown that is on a tentative list submitted to UNESCO as a World Heritage Site, prepared a 8 ft x 4 ft banner with the initial results of their research. This banner formed part of the exhibition by the National Trust.  

At the opening of the exhibition Mr Lennox J Hernandez, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Architecture, gave a background to the International Monuments & Sites Day and the current status of the nomination dossier on Historic Georgetown, which is