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Concrete: Case Studies in Conservation Practice (Paperback)
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Concrete: Case Studies in Conservation Practice (Paperback)
Series: Conserving Modern Heritage
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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 of
international heritage conservation professionals in 2013, the need
for recent, thorough, and well-vetted case studies on conserving
twentieth-century heritage became clear. Concrete: Case Studies in
Conservation Practice answers that need and kicks off a new series,
Conserving Modern Heritage, aimed at sharing best practices. The
projects selected represent a range of building typologies,
building uses, and project sizes, from the high-rise housing blocks
of Le Corbusier's Unite d'Habitation and public buildings such as
the London's National Theatre to small monuments such as the
structures at Dudley Zoological Gardens and a sculpture by Donald
Judd. The projects also represent a range of environmental and
economic contexts. Some projects benefit from high levels of
heritage protection and access to funding, while others have had to
negotiate conservation with stringent cost limitations. All follow
a rigorous conservation approach, beginning with a process of
investigation and diagnosis to identify causes and target repairs
and balancing these with conservation requirements to preserve
significance. Written by architects, engineers, conservators, and
other professionals in the field, these highly detailed and
well-illustrated studies demonstrate sound practice, rigorous
methodology, and technological innovation. This book has something
to offer anyone interested in the conservation of modern heritage.
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