Notice catalographique « Terra 2000 : 8th International Conference on the study and Conservation of Earthen Architecture,Torquay, Devon, UK, May 2000 : preprints and postprints »

Contents:

Archaeological monuments and sites

The earth below: Earthworks

Conservation management planning for earthern
architecture: Chan Chan, Peru

San Diego royal presidio: conservation of an earthen architecture archaeological site

Preserving the earthen monuments in the Stonehenge
and Avebury archaeological landscapes

Preservation of prehistoric earthen architectural
finishes in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado

Learning from the site: Evolution of the Fort Union
Strategic Preservation Plan

Walling old Sana a: Re-evaluating the resurrection of the city walls

Condition and treatment history as prologue to site conservation at Casa Grande Ruins National Monument

Deux sites architecturaux en terre inscrits a la List
Patrimoine mondial: le Ksar des Ait Benhaddou au Maroc, le Fort et Oasis de Bahla a Oman - problèmes de conservation et de gestion

Understanding the deterioration of adobe walls: Fort Union National Monument, New Mexico, USA

Restoration and maintenance of the earth and stone walls of Khor Rori

Développement touristique de Pachacamac

Monks Mound revisited

Materials and Craftsmanship

Identification of the binder in the paintings of the ancient Manchay culture (Peru)

Decorative interior features of twentieth-century ladiri buildings of Campidano and their traditional repair methods

Architecture in China: The work of earth and wood

The history of rammed earth buildings in Switzerland

Some preliminary studies of the thermal properties of Devon cob walls

The use of lime plasters for waterproofing and decoration of mudbrick buildings in Yemen

An analytical study of earth-based building materials in southern Brazil

Learning to build with earth

Surface finishes to earth buildings: Lime mortars and limewashes

Comportement d'un muret en blocs de terre comprimée sollicité en compression simple

Wall paintings on earthen supports: Evaluating analytical methods for conservation

Review and experimental comparison of erosion tests for earth blocks

Analysis of material, construction and damage in historical cob buildings in central Germany

Conservation, maintenance and repair of earthen architecture: Which way do we hold the map?

The restoration of Jenne, Mali: African aesthetics and Western paradigms

Straw stubble thatch

Earth building in New Zealand: A little known heritage

Treatment of an adobe painted frieze in Cardal, Peru and its evaluation after 12 years

Architecture dogon: problematique de la conservation des Gin'na au regard des changements sociaux et religieux en milieu traditionnel dogon

Restoration of the Casas Dos Romeiros, using traditional materials and methods: A case study in the southern Alentejo area of Portugal

Restoration of DÓrazio house, Casalincontrada

Seismic shaking table tests of retrofits for large scale models adobe structures

Possible causes of structural failure in traditional cob buildings

The conservation and presentation of earthen structures at Great Zimbabwe: The Posselt house project case study

Solutions techniques pour la restauration des remparts de Taroudannt (Maroc)

Continuity of tradition: New earth building

A new building in raw earth

Continuity of tradition: New earth building in the Southern Alentego, Portuga

A building unit of culture: A dialogue between the formal technology and vernacular tradition

Architecture in transition: Vernacular architecture of Chachapoyas, Departamento de Amazonas, Peru

Hungarian earth architecture: Past and present

Adobe for the poor: The impossible challenge

Mud-and-stud construction: Compliance with modern planning and building regulations

A rational return to earth as a contemporary building material

Structural rammed earth at the Centre for Alternative Technology

Building with clay and earth in Sweden

Sustainable low-cost housing: The Lak's Uta, Altiplano, Bolivia

Earth building materials: New products, new applications

Experience with domed and vaulted structures in new earth buildings in Sardinia: Continuity of tradition and sustainable development

Innovative earth architecture: Consciousness-raising
for new mud building technologies

Natural materials, zero emissions and sustainable construction

Political, legal and economic context - Protection and Promotion: The steps beyond 2000

Current activities of the Centre of Studies and research on regional earthen architecture

Research on Regional Earthen Architecture

Finding the balance: Recalling cultural form and process at Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico

Clay-building: A social process for sustainable development

Earthen architecture in Italy: Types, technologies and building cultures

Structuring the discipline: The conflict between theory and practice in the conservation of earthen architecture

L'architecture de terre de Djenné: Problematique de sa conservation

The role of a conservator in post-disaster and post-war reconstruction and rehabilitation

Towards industrialised earth structures

Earthen architecture in Moldova

The earth architecture of Graeme North: The work of a leading New Zealand earth architect from 1971-2000

Traditional and new earth building in the Dakhleh Oasis in Egypt

Building with earth in Germany: Current tendencies

Inventaire, documentation et méthodologie de conservation de l'architecture en terre en République Tchèque

Training in the conservation of earthen architectura heritage: Building a field of study

Posters:

Archaeological monuments and sites

Archaeological monuments and sites in the Middle Volga

Status of conservation of the Amber Palace, Amber Jaipur (Rajasthan)

Materials and craftsmanship

Renderings for earth construction

Conservation, repair and maintenance
Les remparts de Taroudannt, enjeu de développement

Landscape architecture proposals for environment degraded by open-cast mining

Traditional forms and building techniques in clay in Croatia

Earth building in Nottinghamshire

Rammed earth as used for the new Chapel of Reconciliation in Berlin

Post-modern rural housing: some design suggestions

Earthquake-resistant, affordable clay houses

Political, legal and economic context

Terrace houses in Cabras (Sardinia)

Earth-house

Raw earth buildings in Abruzzo, Italy

A good hat and a good pair of boots: Literary references to cob

New life for slag and ash heaps

Large pigeon towers in the province of Esfahan (Iran): Endangered traditional adobe buildings

Earth constructions in the Data Base on ecological building (DBEB)

Census and cataloguing of houses in the Abruzzo region, Italy

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