Concerning buildings : studies in honour of Sir Bernard Feilden

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Concerning buildings : studies in honour of Sir Bernard Feilden

edited by Stephen Marks

Butterworth-Heinemann, 1996

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Concerning buildings

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

This text covers a large spectrum of building conservation issues, distilling from each the practical and theoretical aspect that distinguish the art of conservation. The authors are drawn from practising conservators and teachers.

Table of Contents

  • A tribute to Sir Bernhard Feilden
  • the conservation of buildings in Britain since the Second World War
  • principles and problems - ethics and aesthetics
  • international standards, principles and charters of conservation
  • protecting the world's cultural heritage
  • the education of a conservation architect - past, present and future
  • assessment and recording - a practitioner's view
  • using and re-using buildings
  • glorious repair or the British way of making good
  • understanding historic sturctures
  • art history, architectural history and archaeology
  • historic landscapes and gardens and their conservation
  • financing conservation. (Part contents).

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