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Building, Monumental, and Statuary Materials

2002
Materials for construction are many and varied, as are their purposes and products. This chapter includes a survey of the major rocks and other earth materials used for the construction of buildings and monuments. Large statues also require similar materials, so are included.
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Reusing Old Buildings: Protected Monuments in Belgium

Journal of Architectural Conservation, 2001
AbstractProtected monuments are an important part of the cultural heritage of a nation. Because of the continuing increase in the number of protected monuments, governments are confronted with incr...
Patrick Van Cayseele, Wim Van Meerbeeck
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Architectural details and monumental buildings at Borysthenes

CaieteARA. Arhitectură. Restaurare. Arheologie, 2018
Borysthenes 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

2018
The 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, Flora Bougiatioti, Panagiotis Georgopoulos   +2 more
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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 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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The Cultural Foundations of Stalinist Monument Building

2023
This 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, 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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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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Seismic reliability assessment of monumental buildings

2001
An 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, CIAMPOLI, Marcello, P. Giovenale   +2 more
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