ICOMOS, International Scientific Committee on Shared Built Heritage

The ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on Shared Built Heritage supports public and private organisations world-wide in safeguarding, management and documentation of heritage and promotes and encourages its integration in today's social and economic life.

Since the beginning of mankind, people have created structures which remain today as markers of their former occupation of a place. Many of these markers form the heritage of those places, and as such help us to understand the history of various occupations and its peoples. Architecture is the most visible part of an occupation history, and in many instances has become an essential part of the urban and rural fabric of places around the world.