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Imagine the world without the Parthenon, Notre Dame, the Wailing Wall, the Taj Mahal, the Forbidden City, Machu Picchu, or other iconic buildings, monuments, and places. What if the more impressive historic buildings and sites we encounter in our everyday lives disappeared? Civilization would simply not exist as we know it. Fortunately, awareness of the importance of(...)
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Time honored: a global view of architectural conservation
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Imagine the world without the Parthenon, Notre Dame, the Wailing Wall, the Taj Mahal, the Forbidden City, Machu Picchu, or other iconic buildings, monuments, and places. What if the more impressive historic buildings and sites we encounter in our everyday lives disappeared? Civilization would simply not exist as we know it. Fortunately, awareness of the importance of protecting the world's cultural patrimony—in particular, its architectural heritage—is at an all-time high and is growing. Time Honored: A Global View of Architectural Conservation explores the reasons for this phenomenon, explains how international architectural heritage conservation practice operates, and considers where this firmly rooted global interest may lead. Written by a leading practitioner and teacher of architectural preservation, Time Honored provides a much-needed comprehensive and balanced survey of the practice, theory, and structure of architectural heritage conservation throughout the world.
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Les plâtres intérieurs
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Les plâtres intérieurs
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The first edition of this book was the winner of the 2001 National Roofing Contractors Association Gold Circle Award for excellence in the roofing industry. The new second edition is greatly expanded, updated, and revised, in full color, with seven new chapters including "International Slate", "International Slating Styles", "Roof Inscriptions and Designs",(...)
août 1997, Grove City, PA
Slate roof bible : everything you wanted to know about slate roofs including how to keep them alive for centuries, 2nd edition
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The first edition of this book was the winner of the 2001 National Roofing Contractors Association Gold Circle Award for excellence in the roofing industry. The new second edition is greatly expanded, updated, and revised, in full color, with seven new chapters including "International Slate", "International Slating Styles", "Roof Inscriptions and Designs", "Recycling Slate Roofs", "Chimneys", "Valleys", and a general chapter that includes tile roofs, asbestos roofs and soldered seam copper roofs. Many new step-by-step line drawings have been added to this edition, including how to fabricate a lead sewer vent pipe flashing, how to flash a variety of chimneys, and how to replace valleys on both slate and tile roofs.
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L'isolation
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Guide technique publié par la ville de Québec. Volume 15 de 15 volumes.
janvier 1900, Québec
L'isolation
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Guide technique publié par la ville de Québec. Volume 15 de 15 volumes.
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Les couvertures en «tôle à baguettes»
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Guide technique publié par la ville de Québec. Volume 3 de 15 volumes.
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New trends in renovating
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Including both large and small scale projects that share a common spirit of innovation, the works in this volume illustrate the latest trends in renovating design. The over thirty new and daring proposals in renovating design by architects of international renown are accompanied by a comprehensive analysis (contributed directly by the designing architects themselves) of(...)
avril 2005, Corte Madera
New trends in renovating
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Including both large and small scale projects that share a common spirit of innovation, the works in this volume illustrate the latest trends in renovating design. The over thirty new and daring proposals in renovating design by architects of international renown are accompanied by a comprehensive analysis (contributed directly by the designing architects themselves) of each phase in the design and construction process, including a breakdown of materials and techniques employed. "New trends in renovating" features the work of architects Oswald Ungers, Jean Nouvel, Broto, John Pawson, Fernando Tavola, Brookes & Stacey.
Why preservation matters
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Every day, millions of people enter old buildings, pass monuments, and gaze at landscapes unaware that these acts are possible only thanks to the preservation movement. As we approach the October 2016 anniversary of the United States National Historic Preservation Act, historian Max Page offers a thoughtful assessment of the movement’s past and charts a path toward a more(...)
Why preservation matters
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Every day, millions of people enter old buildings, pass monuments, and gaze at landscapes unaware that these acts are possible only thanks to the preservation movement. As we approach the October 2016 anniversary of the United States National Historic Preservation Act, historian Max Page offers a thoughtful assessment of the movement’s past and charts a path toward a more progressive future. Page argues that if preservation is to play a central role in building more-just communities, it must transform itself to stand against gentrification, work more closely with the environmental sustainability movement, and challenge societies to confront their pasts. Touching on the history of the preservation movement in the United States and ranging the world, Page searches for inspiration on how to rejuvenate historic preservation for the next fifty years. This illuminating work will be widely read by urban planners, historians, and anyone with a stake in the past.
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In contrast to tabula rasa urbanism, this book considers strategies for tabula plena?urban sites that are full of existing buildings of multiple time periods. Such dense sites prompt designers to work between the fields of architecture, historic preservation, and urban planning, developing methods for collaborative authorship and interlocking architectural forms. The book(...)
Tabula Plena: forms of urban preservation
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In contrast to tabula rasa urbanism, this book considers strategies for tabula plena?urban sites that are full of existing buildings of multiple time periods. Such dense sites prompt designers to work between the fields of architecture, historic preservation, and urban planning, developing methods for collaborative authorship and interlocking architectural forms. The book grew from a collaboration between the Oslo School of Architecture and Design and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation on the planning of the government quarter in Oslo. Emerging from this process, the book asks larger questions about how we practice, teach, and theorize engagement with existing architecture on an urban scale. It contains a compilation of short essays addressing theoretical questions, a sampling of design projects offering different formal strategies for architectural design, and a series of discussions about pedagogical strategies.
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Ce livre est une somme sur l’histoire des pratiques de l’architecture dédiée à la sauvegarde du patrimoine. Deux cents ans d’observations, de mises en œuvre et d’inventions. L’ouvrage est à la fois analytique et didactique, proposant à travers d’innombrables exemples – allant des bâtiments les plus prestigieux (Notre-Dame, Quimper, Invalides…) aux plus humbles (places de(...)
Sens et renaissances du patrimoine architectural
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Ce livre est une somme sur l’histoire des pratiques de l’architecture dédiée à la sauvegarde du patrimoine. Deux cents ans d’observations, de mises en œuvre et d’inventions. L’ouvrage est à la fois analytique et didactique, proposant à travers d’innombrables exemples – allant des bâtiments les plus prestigieux (Notre-Dame, Quimper, Invalides…) aux plus humbles (places de village, habitat rural, constructions composites…) – un ensemble de voies possibles pour mobiliser avec intelligence les architectures du passé et les attacher à notre temps.
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Situé à l'intersection entre projet architectural et histoire de la construction, le projet de sauvegarde est un formidable instrument de lecture et d'interprétation de la réalité construite. Réunissant les contributions présentées lors de la 1ère journée d'étude d'histoire de la construction du laboratoire GSA, cette publication offre un aperçu des recherches récentes(...)
Le béton armé : histoire d' une technique et sauvegarde du patrimoine du 20e siècle
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Situé à l'intersection entre projet architectural et histoire de la construction, le projet de sauvegarde est un formidable instrument de lecture et d'interprétation de la réalité construite. Réunissant les contributions présentées lors de la 1ère journée d'étude d'histoire de la construction du laboratoire GSA, cette publication offre un aperçu des recherches récentes dans le champ de l'histoire du béton armé et éclaire leurs relations avec la théorie et la pratique de la sauvegarde et de la restauration de l'architecture moderne européenne. Les modes d'intervention sur ces éléments du paysage urbain, qu'il s'agisse d'édifices ou d'ouvrages d'art, interrogent la technologie du matériau béton dans sa dimension historique laquelle est scandée par une succession d'innovations et de normes. Ainsi, tout en croisant plusieurs approches, issues de l'histoire de l'enseignement comme des pratiques de chantier, ce recueil invite à la réflexion sur la notion de patrimoine en architecture.