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Understanding Historic Building Conservation discusses conservation philosophy and the importance of understanding the history of a building before making strategic decisions. It details the role of each conservation team member and sets out the challenges of conservation at planning level in urban, industrial and rural contexts and in the conservation of designed landscapes. The framework of legislation and charters within which these operate is described and the book also provides guidance on writing conservation plans, explains the fundamental issues of costing and contracts for conservation and highlights the importance of maintenance. Eighteen chapters written by the experts present today's key issues in historic building conservation: Timothy Cantell, Martin Cherry, Nigel Dann, Peter Davenport, Geoff Evans, Keith Falconer, Colin Johns, Jeremy Lake, Jonathan Lovie, Duncan McCallum, James Maitland Gard'ner, Martin Robertson, Adrian Stenning, David H. Tomback, Giles Waterfield, Philip Whitbourn, John Winter

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Book category Books in English The arts Architecture History of architecture

• Full title: Understanding Historic Building Conservation
• Author: Michael Forsyth
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 230
• EAN: 9781118781593
• ISBN: 1118781597
• ID: 02179148
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Weight: 516 g
• Dimensions: 191 × 246 × 11 mm
• Date of publishing: 10. September 2013

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