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Counter-Monuments and Nation-Building in Australia

Peace Review, 2010
Counter-monuments aim to challenge and invert the nation-building agenda of traditional state memorials. Instead of presenting a simple story of triumph or martyrdom, they confront the nation-state with its own crimes and exclusions. In contrast to traditional pedagogical monuments, they use abstract rather than literal forms to accommodate ambivalence,
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Conservation of Granite Buildings and Monuments

Journal of Architectural Conservation, 1998
AbstractGranite is considered to be a durable building stone, but recent research has highlighted the problem of decay affecting granite used in the construction of historic buildings and monuments, and has assessed the various forms of such decay. This paper reviews some of the research work and discusses the effects of weathering, decay and soiling ...
D.C.M. Urquhart, M.E. Young
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Building the Monuments of the Future

2007
The preservation of ancient structures like the house of Alexander at Thebes not only reinforced Romans’ sense of the passing of time, but also encouraged them to aspire to make their monuments last as long or even longer as legendary examples of the past.
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Building as Monument

AB. Arhitektov bilten, 2019
While the production of monuments under the socialism in Yugoslavia is receiving international exposure during recent years, architectural typologies that hybridized commemoration and specific forms of social life are being overlooked. Using case-studies of cultural centres in Kolašin and Nikšić in Montenegro, this paper with examine the transfer of ...
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RESPONSE OF MONUMENTAL BUILDINGS TO INTERNAL EXPLOSIONS

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (COMPDYN 2015), 2019
The response of monumental buildings to internal explosions is here investigated through a numerical approach. The study focuses on the emblematic case of thePantheon in Rome, yet it sheds light on more generic ones. Propagation of incident andreflected blast waves and their impact on the structure are considered in terms of a coupled solid-fluid ...
Masi, Filippo, Stefanou, Ioannis, Vannucci, Paolo, Maffi-Berthier, Victor   +3 more
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The Scheduling and Listing of Monuments and Buildings.

2017
The Derbyshire Archaeological Journal, 79, 126 ...
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A monumental task:

2015
This paper explores the nature of dolmen through their architecture and construction.
Richards, Colin, Cummings, Vicki
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Stone Conservation on Buildings and Monuments

1973
The rapid, visible decay of stone in urban areas has made it necessary to protect stone surfaces from premature decay; the attempt is to halt the natural process of stone decay but we can merely slow down nature’s continuous gnawing. Protective commercial chemicals have been applied since the 17 th century. The heterogeneity of stone, however, does not
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Building the Past: Monuments and Memory in the Forum Romanum

Late Antique Archaeology, 2006
Memory played a crucial role in the shaping of Late Roman political consciousness and identity. This is clear in the case of the city of Rome, where political, religious, and social transformations affected the way that the city’s inhabitants defined their relationship between themselves and with the imperial court.
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Monuments and Historic Buildings: Monuments and Historic Buildings: Earthquakes and Structural Engineering

World Congress on Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering, 2022
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