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In this book THE MONUMENTS OF SABA. The Island of Saba a Caribbean example the author, architect, and lecturer Frans H. Brugman, gives a rather accurate description of the typical traditional Saban architecture. He emphasizes the characteristic red-and-white painted cottages and avails ample information regarding their origin, relation, and development. It is to regret that the future of these small traditional wooden cottages, which were built since the seventeenth century, is at stake.
Endured demolition through the years, insufficient and lack of maintenance, not-traditional restoration, and the application of contemporary materials have affected the historical partrimonium.
With Saba as an example, the author gives elementary guidelines for a feasible and realistic approach for the proper maintenance and management of monuments in the wider Caribbean, presented as a tool providing a database program, which forms part of this publication.
An important part fosters the educational awareness program related to the cultural heritage, which focusses on the youth in whose hands we give the future of our past.
