Facades
Facades

Author: Arian Mostaedi

Publisher: Gingko Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13:

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This volume presents a new selection of practical, innovating and inspiringacades by promising or prestigious architects. They use traditional orlternative soultions adapted to the surrounding materials.;As the face ofrchitecture that connects the interior with the exterior, facades areerhaps the most innovative area of architectural design. This book featuresriginal solutions in the design of light and heavy facades.

Heritage Problems, Causes and Solutions
Heritage Problems, Causes and Solutions

Author: Calogero Bellanca

Publisher: Sapienza Università Editrice

Published: 2023-02-26

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 8893772620

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The book provides a series of reflections on Heritage Problems, Causes and Solutions, that have maturated during many years of study and research in Europe. It shows how this subject is inside the Critical Restoration. Its central nucleous of study is composed by specific in-depth three thematic sessions: Part I Methodological Approach to Conservation; physical approach. Part II Heritage Problems, causes and solutions. Part III Construction applied to Heritage. The authors have collected thematic essays on key issues during their didactic experiences in the course of Theory and Practice on Conservation in Faculty of Architecture, Sapienza University of Rome, and in courses of the Department of Construction and Technologics applied to Architecture, in ETSAM, UPM, and in other european universities.

Rammed Earth Conservation
Rammed Earth Conservation

Author: C. Mileto

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2012-05-31

Total Pages: 734

ISBN-13: 0203085655

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Includes a free CD containing the full contents of the book.The rammed earth technique, in all its variants, is widespread all over the world. This enormously prevalent building technique harbours an important richness of varieties both in application and in materials used. Interventions on historical rammed earth buildings have also been carried o

6th International Conference on the Conservation of Earthen Architecture
6th International Conference on the Conservation of Earthen Architecture

Author: The Getty Conservation Institute

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 1991-02-28

Total Pages: 492

ISBN-13: 0892361816

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On October 14-19, 1990, the 6th International Conference on the Conservation of Earthen Architecture was held in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Sponsored by the GCI, the Museum of New Mexico State Monuments, ICCROM, CRATerre-EAG, and the National Park Service, under the aegis of US/ICOMOS, the event was organized to promote the exchange of ideas, techniques, and research findings on the conservation of earthen architecture. Presentations at the conference covered a diversity of subjects, including the historic traditions of earthen architecture, conservation and restoration, site preservation, studies in consolidation and seismic mitigation, and examinations of moisture problems, clay chemistry, and microstructures. In discussions that focused on the future, the application of modern technologies and materials to site conservation was urged, as was using scientific knowledge of existing structures in the creation of new, low-cost, earthen architecture housing.