Conservation of Buildings & Building Materials

Historical gardens listed as cultural monuments are valuable evidence of our civilization. How can they be preserved under changing climatic condi...

Earthquakes pose myriad dangers to heritage collections worldwide. This book provides an accessible introduction to these dangers and to the method...

The worldwide use of building envelopes in steel and glass is one of the characteristic features of modern architecture. Many of these pre- and pos...

Wir leben in einem Zeitalter allgegenwärtiger und berechneter Bilder: Welche Möglichkeiten haben Fotografinnen und Fotografen, sich einem historisc...

Over the past fifty years, preservation policy has evolved very little, despite escalating accusations that landmarking and historic districting ca...

This is a companion volume to "Seismic Stabilization of Historic Adode Structures: Final Report of the Getty Seismic Adode Project", and it offers ...

Preservation is Overtaking Us brings together two lectures given by Rem Koolhaas at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning...

This title provides an extensive and comprehensive examination of the history and use of modern house paints. The versatility of modern commercial ...

The preservation enterprise helps fashion the physical contours of memory in public space, and thus has the power to curate a multidimensional and ...

Architecture and urban development of the 1960s and 1970s have now become part of everyday heritage protection and the subject of an interdisciplin...

Building maintenance now accounts for over half the construction industry's output. Therefore, there has been growing recognition of the role of th...

Nowhere in the world is it possible to see such an intact naval dockyard for the building and maintenance of the ships of the sailing navy as at Ch...

Transporting readers from derelict homesteads to imperiled harbors, postindustrial ruins to Cold War test sites, Curated Decay presents an unparall...

A journey through Europe’s old towns, exploring why we treasure them—but also what they hide about a continent’s fraught history  “[A] fascinating ...

This guidance is aimed at conservators and those specifying conservation treatments for historic stonework. It will also be of interest to conserva...