The field of stone conservation has long needed a holistic perspective that embraces the needs of conservation professionals and provides scientific support to enable ...
This new volume in the GCI's Readings in Conservation series brings together a selection of seminal writings on the conservation of historic cities. This ...
This timely volume brings together fourteen case studies that address the challenges of conserving the twentieth century's most ubiquitous building material-concrete. Following a meeting ...
In this remarkable and gorgeously illustrated book, Neil Jackson presents a vibrant profile of the Los Angeles architect Pierre Koenig, who Time magazine said ...
Reyner Banham and the Paradoxes of High Tech reassesses one of the most influential voices in twentieth-century architectural history through a detailed examination of ...
The decades following the 1973 publication of Alessandro Conti's Storia del Restauro have seen considerable scholarly interest in the development of restoration in France ...
From 1946 to 1973, Whitney Rowland Smith and his partner, Wayne Williams, designed more than 800 projects, from residential, commercial, and public buildings to ...
This is the sixth volume to appear in the Getty Conservation Institute's Readings in Conservation series, which gathers and publishes texts that have been ...
This is a fascinating and intelligently illustrated study of architectural innovation in Los Angeles. From 1940 to 1990, Los Angeles rapidly evolved into one ...
This title offers an insightful collection of critically important readings on the concepts and practices of textile conservation. This fourth volume in "The Readings ...
The authors approach the context from a variety of angles including the social and political histories of a divided Germany, the conflicted development of ...
