It all depeds on your perspective:
To the crazey old man it is probably authentic because in his mind he never
bought a new ax.

To the local ax sales man, that ax is a new ax and has nothing to do with
the original ax.

To the young lad listening to the old man's story about how he has been
chopping wood with the same ax for the last 80 years. The ax has lots o
intergrity and authenticity. The ax inspires the young lad with a sense of
awe.

The moral of the story is that perhaps Authenticity and Integrity are
actually the mental impression that the person experiencing a building walks
away with in stead of the actual hunk of building that creates that
impression. If this is true then the amount of integrity or authenticity is
determined by the amount of knowledge or myth an individual has about the
building. And it is the experience that is most important instead of the
object. Much the same way that Ralph's imitation design knock-offs from the
outlet mall bring him complete satisfation because he believes he found a
bargin on the real deal.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ruth Barton [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 6:15 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Authenticity vs. integrity


OK you alls from the big cities, I got a ? for ya.  You alls have heard the
story about the old fella that was real attached to his "old ax."  He said
the handle had been replaced 5 times and the blade twice but it was so good
to have an old fashioned tool that lasted so well.  Now for the ?, does his
ax have either integrity or authenticity?  Ruth






At 7:28 AM -0600 3/22/01, Score, Robert wrote:
>If integrity can be reproduced, does that mean that a reconstructed copy of
>a building has the same integrity as the original. If that is the case then
>Disney World  would have 5/8th the integrity of the countries in euroupe
>which it so smartly copies at 5/8th scale or colonial williamsburg has the
>same integrity as it would if it were original. Unfortunatly, it seems to
me
>that once integrity or authenticity is carelessly destroyed it is at best
>greatly reduced from its original, no matter how good the recreation. That
>is the premisis of preserving structures inlieu of letting them go to pot
>and then recreating them when it is convient.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Robert Cagnetta [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 5:59 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Authenticity vs. integrity
>
>
>Integrity can be reproduced, authenticity cannot.

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Ruth Barton
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Westminster, VT
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