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"This volume of fourteen case studies addresses the challenges of conserving the twentieth century's most ubiquitous building material, concrete"--Provided by publisher.

"This timely volume brings together fourteen case studies that address the challenges of conserving the twentieth century's most ubiquitous building material--concrete. Following a meeting of international heritage conservation professionals in 2013, the need for recent, thorough, and well-vetted case studies on conserving twentieth century heritage became clear. This book answers that need and kicks off a new series, Conserving Modern Heritage, aimed at sharing best practices. The projects selected represent a range of building typologies, uses, and sizes, from the high-rise housing blocks of Le Corbusier's Unité d'Habitation and public buildings such as London's National Theatre to small monuments like the structures at Dudley Zoological Gardens and a sculpture by Donald Judd. The projects also represent a range of environmental and economic contexts. Some projects benefit from high levels of heritage protection and access to funding, while others have had to negotiate conservation with stringent cost limitations. All follow a rigorous conservation approach, beginning with a process of investigation and diagnosis to identify causes and target repairs, balanced with conservation requirements to preserve significance"--from Publisher

Conserving modern heritage

Introduction : Concrete conservation: an emerging area of practice

The Listening Mirrors, Denge, Kent, England, 1928-30 / Chris Wood and David Farrell

Halles du Boulingrin, Reims, France, 1928 / François Chatillon and Richard Palmer

Villa Girasole, Verona, Italy, 1929-35 / Michele Secco, Elena Stievanin, Claudio Modena, Gilberto Artioli, and Francesca da Porto

Dudley Zoological Gardens, Dudley, England, 1937 / Stuart Tappin

São Francisco de Assis Church, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 1943 / Marco Antônio Penido de Rezende, Ulisses Vanucci Lins, and José Eduardo de Aguiar

Magliana Pavilion, Rome, 1945 / Tullia Iori and Sergio Poretti

Gänsehäufel swimming facility, Vienna, 1950 / Wolfgang H. Salcher

Unité d'habitation, Marseille, France, 1952 / François Botton

First Christian Lower Technical School Patrimonium, Amsterdam, 1956 / Wessel de Jonge and Jurjen van Beek

Morse and Ezra Stiles Colleges, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA, 1958-62 / Paul Gaudette, Deborah Slaton, and David S. Patterson

New York Hall of Science, New York, 1964 / Laura N. Buchner, Christopher Gembinski, and Raymond M. Pepi

National Theatre, London, 1976 / Patrick Dillon and Stephen Douglas

Brion Cemetery, Treviso, Italy, 1969-78 / Guido Pietropoli, Paolo Faccio, Paola Scaramuzza, and Greta Bruschi

Untitled by Donald Judd, Southwest England, 1988-91 / Catherine Croft.

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Case studies.

Case studies.