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Time Frames: Conservation Policies for Twentieth-Century Architectural Heritage
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Time Frames: Conservation Policies for Twentieth-Century Architectural Heritage Hardcover - 2017

by Ugo Carughi (Editor); Massimo Visone (Editor)

From the publisher

Time Frames provides a reconnaissance on the conservation rules and current protection policies of more than 100 countries, with particular attention to the emerging nations and twentieth-century architecture. The contributions illustrate the critical issues related to architectural listings, with a brief history of national approaches, a linkography and a short bibliography. The book also provides a short critical lexicography, with 12 papers written by scholars and experts including topics on identities, heritages, conservation, memories and the economy. By examining the methods used to designate building as heritage sites across the continents, this book provides a comprehensive overview of current protection policies of twentieth-century architecture as well as the role of architectural history.

Details

  • Title Time Frames: Conservation Policies for Twentieth-Century Architectural Heritage
  • Author Ugo Carughi (Editor); Massimo Visone (Editor)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 532
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge
  • Date 2017
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9781472489296 / 1472489292
  • Weight 3.08 lbs (1.40 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.9 x 7.1 x 1.3 in (25.15 x 18.03 x 3.30 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Architecture - Conservation and restoration, Cultural property - Protection
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2016046373
  • Dewey Decimal Code 724.6

About the author

Ugo Carughi is an architect, Chair of Docomomo Italia Onlus and former Director at the Superintendence of Naples. He was a member of the Committee for the National Plan for the modern architectural archives and the twentieth-century architecture of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities. He has conducted numerous restorations of monumental buildings and won the prize in the competition for pilot projects for the conservation of monuments organized by the EEC (1988). He has taught at the University of Naples Federico II, at the 2nd University of Naples, University of Basilicata, and at the University Suor Orsola Benincasa in Naples. He is author and editor of many publications on the history and conservation of architecture. Amongst his main books is Maledetti Vincoli. La tutela dell'architettura contemporanea (2012).

Massimo Visone is Adjunct Professor in History of Architecture at the University of Naples Federico II. His main research interests focus on the history of gardens and landscapes, urban iconography and architectural historiography. Amongst his main publications are many studies on the history of architecture and the city of Naples and its surroundings, the history of art and a significant edited volume on protection policies for twentieth-century architecture worldwide (Maledetti vincoli: Part II 2012).

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