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New Drawings of the Alhambra: Deformations of Muqarnas in the Pendentives of the Sala de la Barca

Architectural heritage preservation and sustainability need advanced graphic techniques in order to document and understand the disposition/composition of plaster muqarnas, a fragile construction element. The muqarnas are key elements in the Nasrid archite ...

2019

The commodification of alternative cultural spaces

Luca Giovanni Pattaroni, Letícia Cabeçadas Do Carmo

The commodification of "alternative" cultural spaces is a process that started to take place in several European cities, like Lisbon, for instance. This has happened due to the pressure of the real estate market, tourism trends or the austerity measures im ...

2018

Navigating through 200 years of historical newspapers

Frédéric Kaplan, Maud Ehrmann, Yannick Rochat, Vincent Christian Buntinx, Cyril Antoine Michel Bornet

This paper aims to describe and explain the processes behind the creation of a digital library composed of two Swiss newspapers, namely Gazette de Lausanne (1798-1998) and Journal de Genève (1826-1998), covering an almost two-century period. We developed a ...

2016

Historic Urban Landscape

Lesslie Astrid Herrera Quiroz

Within the UNESCO Recommendation of 2011, the historic urban landscape is defined as: “The urban area understood as the result of a historic layering of cultural and natural values and attributes, extending beyond the notion of “historic center” or “ensemb ...

2015

Flânerie in the alternative cultural spaces of Lisbon

Letícia Cabeçadas Do Carmo

Lisbon is a city of labyrinthine paths, due mostly to its irregular territory. The experiment of Flânerie in is explored in this paper through the identification of particular paths linked to the contemporary alternative cultural life, a debate being under ...

2015

Hutongs-Transformations: A Battle between memories

Anna Pagani

Basing the analysis on social studies, on the history of a nation and its urban landscape, as well as on the connection between anthropology and architecture, the main aim of this book is to partially unveil the different roles that memories have had and s ...

2015

Seismic conservation strategies for cultural heritage buildings in Switzerland

Katrin Beyer

Cultural heritage buildings were typically built without considering seismic action and are therefore potentially susceptible to earthquake damage. The performance states and protection objectives developed for ordinary buildings are not directly applicabl ...

2014

Undrawable Architecture Heritage Buildings And Digital Tectonic

Traditionally architecture in Asia was not graphically represented or formalised, and relied on received knowledge being passed down from generation to generation. Stylianos Dritsas and Kang Shua Yeo describe the Heritage Buildings and Digital Tectonic res ...

Wiley Periodicals, Inc2013

Urban identity: heritage protection and comfort regulations in Geneva’s current housing

Catarina Wall Gago

This contribution proposes a comparative analysis of how legislation on built heritage protection and regulations on energy demands affect current 19th century housing buildings in the city of Geneva. Four measures of protection are analysed, looking at ho ...

Department of Planning & Regional Development, School of Engineering, University of Thessaly2013

Towards the Layered City: Redefining the Role of Underground Resources in Future Urbanization

Michael Robert Doyle

For the past century, the urban underground has been developed piecemeal rather than as the object of a long-term planning effort. There is a growing awareness by urban planners and engineers that the underground contains not only potential usable space, b ...

2013