Abstract Starting with a brief review of different theories about the residential and defensive uses Sardinian nuraghi (monumental stone towers), author assesses their ritual significance functions from standpoint architecture design, similarities to other cult buildings, associated features finds. Evidence for activities in certain towers has grown recent years is widely accepted Iron Age (cir...

One city, three eras: Touring the monuments of Montgomery reveals ongoing struggles over collective memories past and visions future.

The historic city center of Amsterdam is full monumental buildings, most which are dwellings up to 400 years old. Many lives have been lived there, and consequently many alterations made. Restoring a canal house therefore an exercise in reading the past while simultaneously considering present. Each aspect can require different approach: conservation, restoration, reconstruction, even addition....

Zvi Hecker (Krakow, 1931) is a Polish -Israeli architect and artist. After the Second World War years spent with his family in Samarkand where he first approached architecture by sketching monumental Islamic buildings, began studies Krakow completed them at Technion Haifa, graduated 1955. Later studied painting Avni Academy of Fine Arts Tel Aviv. From 1960, an office Aviv until 1966 association...

The conservation of built cultural heritage is a fundamental task for modern societies. Specialized expertise necessary to define proper strategy preserve that accumulating damage due the deterioration materials, repeated loading, and exceptional events. This paper provides part work developed definition Conservation Management Plan 20th-century building in Africa. monumental building, Beira ra...

The article is devoted to an important period in the life and work of Moscow artist Sergei Romanovich (1894–1968), one most interesting young artists Russian pictorial avant-garde second half 1910s, a student later friend Mikhail Larionov. From late 1930s mid-1950s, was employee Workshop Monumental Painting at Academy Architecture USSR. Together with Lev Bruni Vladimir Favorsky, he worked on de...