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Architectural details and monumental buildings at Borysthenes
CaieteARA. Arhitectură. Restaurare. Arheologie, 2018Borysthenes encompasses a small number of sites belonging to the period of Greek colonization of the Black Sea region, where monumental buildings with architectural decoration appeared during the 6th century BC. Specific order details are cut from stone; architectural terracotta, imported from Miletus, was also found.
Alla Bujskikh, Dimitrii Chistov
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The Course of Building Materials in Historic Buildings and Monuments
2018The architecture of the past has always been a source of knowledge on various aspects of sustainable architecture. In the last decades, there has been a growing interest concerning the environmental impact of building materials, which is linked with a vast variety of parameters, both quantitative and qualitative.
Aineias Oikonomou +2 more
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Stone Conservation on Buildings and Monuments
1973The 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 Monuments of the Future
2007The 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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The Cultural Foundations of Stalinist Monument Building
2023This chapter investigates the cultural impulse to self-commemoration and demonstrates how its materialization in prospective monuments undergirded the fantasy of an enduring national collective, whose links were to be forged through intergenerational memory.
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Counter-Monuments and Nation-Building in Australia
Peace Review, 2010Counter-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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Seismic reliability assessment of monumental buildings
2001An ad-hoc procedure for the seismic reliability assessment of monumental buildings, based on the macroelement approach and the probabilistic description of the relevant quantities, is briefly presented, together with its extension to forecasting the probability distribution of damages due to earthquakes among similar monumental buildings. The procedure
AUGUSTI, Giuliano +2 more
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Base Isolation for large monumental buildings
2014Italy is one of the countries with the highest number of historical and monumental buildings. At the same time is a country of moderate/high seismic risk. Many of the Italian historical and monumental buildings are large masonry structures dating back to centuries ago, that can be highly vulnerable to earthquakes. One interesting approach for improving
S. Corticelli +3 more
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