TY - JOUR TI - The protection of historical defensive architecture in ruin AU - Krempa, Agnieszka AU - Wolnik, Monika AU - Zawilińska, Magdalena AU - Waszczyszyn, Elżbieta TI - The protection of historical defensive architecture in ruin AB - According to the international doctrinal documents of restoration, the best method of protecting castles is leaving them in permanent ruin. Really interesting and correct solution of that problem is infilling historic buildings with new elements. Nevertheless, we have to deal with activities, such as reconstruction, which are open to doubt and inconsistent with any doctrinal documents. In this article we attempted to describe various approaches of protection of monuments in nine examples of Polish castles. VL - 2017 IS - Volume 1/2017 PY - 2017 SN - 2544-0853 C1 - 2544-6630 SP - 297 EP - 313 DO - 10.4467/00000000PUA.17.018.7136 UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/przestrzen-urbanistyka-architektura/article/ochrona-historycznej-architektury-obronnej-w-stanie-ruiny KW - protection of castles KW - defensive architecture KW - international doctrinal documents