Main entry:

Fitch, James Marston.

Title & Author:

Historic preservation : curatorial management of the built world / James Marston Fitch.

Publication:

New York : McGraw-Hill, ©1982.

Description:

xii, 433 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Why preserve the prototype? -- The heritage as cultural resource -- The economic sense of retrieval and recycling -- Conceptual parameters of historic preservation -- Regeneration of historic urban cores -- Preservation, restoration, conservation -- Reconstitution of damaged fabrics -- Extended and adaptive use -- Reconstruction, reproduction, and replica: use and abuse -- The architectural museum, indoors and out -- Cosmetic consequences of intervention -- Insertion of new systems in old fabrics -- Restoration and maintenance of historic landscapes -- Protection and interpretation of sites and ruins -- Documentation of the heritage: quantification, analysis, and classification -- The fourth dimension of preservation -- Two levels of interpretation -- Training for professional preservation: preservationist, conservationist, craftsperson -- Preservation in two socialist countries -- Preservation in the third-world countries: the case of Africa -- Preservation in tomorrow's world.

ISBN:

0070211213
9780070211216

Subject:

Architecture Conservation and restoration.
Historic buildings Conservation and restoration.
Historic preservation.
Architecture Conservation et restauration.
Monuments historiques Conservation et restauration.
Préservation historique.
historic preservation.
Denkmalpflege

Holdings:

Location: Library main 74301
Call No.: 8791; ID:86-B12752
Status: Available