Facets of Reconstruction. The Monument Caught in Between Part 2 Dissertation 2020 Andreea Mihaela Chirca Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism | Romania The cultural heritage has unfolded its history inextricably linked to that of wars, conflicts, destruction, being directly affected and generated by them and their consequences. Always caught in between social phenomena, conflicts, ideologies, political and economic wills that determine its existence, destruction, reconstruction, the historical monument is an object trapped inside the conflict and a subject generating conflict around it, thus creating a certain value we can call 'value of debate'/ 'value of conflict'. The dynamic layers developing around the historical monument can turn into its favour, enhancing its value and trigger productive mechanisms, especially in the case of reconstructing architectural objects. Used as a tool to recover memory, in response to the post-traumatic feelings of the affected communities, reconstruction has often been used as a prosthesis to regain the mutilated integrity, to rebuild the collective identity of the nations affected by the conflict, whatever forms it took. Taking the Kornis Castle as a case-study, representative for the situation of extra-urban nobiliary residences in Romania affected during the communist regime, the present paper aims to explore theories, tools and methods of restoring the potential unit of ruined historical monuments and the use of reconstruction as both architectural and social tool. Tutor(s) Hanna Derer Petru Murtu