Tratar de la Puerta de la Latina, una de las contadísimas muestras del plateresco en Madrid, es, en realidad, tratar de dos edificios: por un lado, del antiguo Hospital de ...

In 2008, renowned Italian architect Franco Stella (born 1943) was tasked with the reimagining of the Berlin Palace, an important cultural project that has been the subject of a decades-long ...

How can homes be upgraded to meet todays demands - from living comfort to energy efficiency and digital requirements? How can the fusion of the historic and the new be ...

Modernism is the most defining architectural expression of the 20th century-a movement that transformed built environments around the world in an unprecedented way. Many of these buildings are in need ...

hy do we decide that parts of our built environment are worth the special attention that heritage designation brings? How can the character of conservation areas and other historic places ...

Juan Bautista Lázaro fue uno de los arquitectos más importantes de España de finales del siglo XIX, destacando por sus obras en el campo de la restauración en el patrimonio. ...

Where there are vacancies, there is room for new uses, such as housing and leisure and health-care facilities. This often results in surprising combinations, such as a school or a ...

This was the first book to offer an in-depth investigation into the characteristic architecture of Yemen. This new, revised edition includes drawings, documentation and information on the building and reconstruction ...

In Doors: History, Repair and Conservation, readers are guided through the function, history, development, care, repair and conservation of doors by chapter authors who are experts in their field. This ...

The Palais de Tokyo, built for the built for the 1937 International Exhibition of Arts and Technology, is an icon of French Art Deco architecture. Located prominently on the northern ...

In this important book, the authors unpack the theoretical and practical issues around the development of heritage sites, critically dissecting key conservation benchmarks such as the ICOMOS guidelines, BS 7913 ...

In this volume, some of the leading figures in the field have been brought together to write on the roots of the historic preservation movement in the United States, ranging ...

The proliferation of new metals-such as stainless steels, aluminium alloys and metallic coatings-in modern and contemporary art and architecture has made the need for professionals who can address their conservation ...

Situated on the shore of the Lake Zurich, Le Corbusier's exhibition pavilion is his last realised design. Based on his Modulor proportional system and at the scale of a single-family ...

Conservation in the built environment raises fundamental questions which have been debated for centuries - what is worth preserving, how is it possible, why is it important? This book takes ...

This book, the eighth in the Getty Conservation Institute's Readings in Conservation series, fills a significant gap in the published literature on urban conservation. This topic is distinct from both ...

The transformation and reuse of old buildings is by no means only a kind of renovation in the simple sense, but it's about adjusting a certain site to accommodate new ...

This book captures the awe - inspiring drama of abandoned, forgotten, and ruined spaces, as well as the extraordinary designs that can bring them back to life - demonstrating that ...