Conservation of Buildings & Building Materials

This book is a comprehensive guide to the classification, design, construction, and maintenance of subsea pipeline systems. It provides an in-depth...

More than Buildings studies the buildings typology in Portuguese cities and their relationship with the program (the way in which it responds to a ...

Thinking Heritage Through China explores major themes in international heritage through the lens of heritage practice in China.China is a dynamic p...

A journey through Europes old towns, exploring why we treasure thembut also what they hide about a continents fraught history  [A] fascinating chro...

The authors explore multifaceted aspects of the competing cultural landscapes that comprise the northeast of Scotland. This interdisciplinary colle...

This Greek-language monograph on the castle of Modon (Peloponnese, Greece) leads us on a journey from Homer to the 20th century, and concentrates p...

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

This guidance covers the practical application of photogrammetry in recording cultural heritage, with particular reference to structure from motion...

In architectural terms, rehabilitation is all about breathing new life into an old building using modern materials and designs that both compliment...

First emerging at the beginning of the twentieth century, architectural reconstruction has increasingly become an instrument to visually revive a l...

Drawing on the authors extensive fieldwork in the Dong areas in southwest China, this book presents a detailed picture of the Dongs buildings and t...

This book discusses architectural excellence in Islamic societies drawing on textual and visual materials, from the Aga Khan Documentation Center a...

This book reviews four decades of debate about restoring an industrial heritage site of inestimable value the Venice Arsenal. Focusing on the chal...

Historic reconstructions have been a consistent part of the historic preservation and heritage conservation movements in the United States and Cana...

Drawing on the authors extensive fieldwork in the Dong areas in southwest China, this book presents a detailed picture of the Dongs buildings and t...

Drawing on the authors extensive fieldwork in the Dong areas in southwest China, this book presents a detailed picture of the Dongs buildings and t...

This guidance is intended to promote the appreciation of historic military airfields and their associated buildings, so that their significance is ...

Nonconformist has long been used as a description of Protestant Christians in England and Wales who were not part of the Church of England. Among t...

Architecture and Armed Conflict is the first multi-authored scholarly book to address this theme from a comparative, interdisciplinary perspective....

The widely acclaimed and beautifully illustrated Understanding Architecture is now revised and expanded in its fourth edition, vividly examining th...

This book presents the papers given at the RILEM Seminar held at the Building Research Establishment, Garston, UK in October 1994. The book provide...

Architectural design can play a role in helping make the past present in meaningful ways when applied to preexisting buildings and places that carr...

Historic preservation, whether of landscapes or buildings, was an important development of the nineteenth century in many countries. There is howev...

Maintenance helps to preserve the significance of a historic building, retaining both the structural integrity of the building fabric and its appea...

Architectural relics of nineteenth and twentieth-century colonialism dot cityscapes throughout our globalizing world, just as built traces of colon...

Recognised by the UNs Sustainable Development Goals as a measure to make cities inclusive, safe and resilient, conservation of natural and cultural...

The main aim of this book is to develop and explore the value of new innovative digital content to help satisfy UNESCOs World Heritage nomination f...

This title was first published in 2002.Employing a range of case studies from three northern European countries - England, Sweden and The Netherlan...

Architectural design can play a role in helping make the past present in meaningful ways when applied to preexisting buildings and places that carr...

As San Juan nears the 500th anniversary of its founding, Arleen Pabón-Charneco explores the urban and architectural developments that have taken pl...

This new and substantially revised edition of Heritage Planning: Principles and Process offers an extensive overview of the burgeoning fields of he...

This title was first published in 2002.Employing a range of case studies from three northern European countries - England, Sweden and The Netherlan...

UnDoing Buildings: Adaptive Reuse and Cultural Memory discusses one of the greatest challenges for twenty-first-century society: what is to be done...

Civil courts were originally part of the Assizes from the Middle Ages onwards, but to seek a remedy at these courts for a debt was a costly and tim...

Criminal courts have been a key part of English life since the Middle Ages, and range from small historic, local magistrates courts to huge modern ...

This advice note illustrates the application of the policies set out in the NPPF in determining applications for planning permission and listed bui...

This document is for anyone who is interested in war memorials and would like to apply to get one listed. It will help people to make a detailed ap...

Since Roman times structures have watched over Englands shore and coastal waters to prevent smuggling, to co-ordinate assistance to ships in distre...

This short guide provides an introduction to the history and development of buildings associated with historic amusement parks and fairground rides...

War memorials are important features of our cities, towns and villages. In the aftermath of the war many communities, families and individuals also...

This guide will help you plan and run an effective project. It is written for those planning research and research and development (R&D) projec...

This guidance is intended for anyone interested in or responsible for the care of war memorials. This might include parish, local and district coun...

This report has been prepared in response to a request from the Wordsworth Trust for a detailed understanding of the evolution of Dove Cottage and ...

This book examines the unique socialist-modernist architecture built in the twentieth century in Central and Eastern Europe as a source of heritage...

Traditional farmsteads and farm buildings make an important contribution to the remarkably varied character of Englands landscape. They are fundame...

A week on a beach, a day at a spa, a hike in the hills -- tourism is taken for granted today, but over the past 500 years, it has played a signific...