Conservation and Restoration

This new edition examines management of built heritage through the use of values-led decision making, based on an understanding of the significance of the cultural asset. It considers how significance is assessed and used as an effective focus and driver for management strategies and processes.

Wood Deterioration, Protection and Maintenance provides an up to date discussion of the natural durability of wood, wood degradation processes, and methods of structural and chemical protection of wood.

The main topics in this book include vernacular earthen architecture, rehabilitation of vernacular earthen architecture, contemporary earthen architecture, restoration of monumental earthen architecture, lessons from vernacular heritage for a sustainable contemporary architecture and structural analysis of vernacular architecture.

"First edition published 1999 by Butterworth-Heinemann."

"This book was inspired by a workshop held in March 2015 in Luxor Egypt entitled Trends in Heritage focused Building Information Modelling and Collaboration for Sustainability."

The reconstruction of landmarks is as old as the heritage conservation movement itself, yet Reconstructing Historic Landmarks is the first book to fully explore the role played by landmark reconstructions within the heritage conservation movement.

UnDoing Buildings: Adaptive Reuse and Cultural Memory discusses one of the greatest challenges for the twenty-first century society: what is to be done with the huge stock of existing buildings that have outlived the function for which they were built?

This book presents guidance, theory, case studies and methodologies for analysing tree-rings to accurately date and help preserve historic buildings and landscapes.

Human-Centered Built Environment Heritage Preservation addresses the question of how a human-centered conservation approach can and should change practice.

From Ante- to Zeitgeist, this 'treasury' of principal terms and ideas is a provocative read for the interior design student. Readable and illustrated with over 150 images, it covers topics from the practical to the philosophical.