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The main objective of this course is to provide students with fundamental knowledge of different types of cultural heritage, to introduce methods for the conservation of historic environments such as monuments and sites, and to develop awareness of various approaches to the preservation and restoration of cultural heritage over time. The course also aims to strengthen students’ theoretical background by introducing modern conservation theory as well as international principles and doctrines of heritage conservation.

ARC 3603 Recording of Historic Buildings

1-John Fleming, Hugh Honour, Nikolaus Pevsner, The Penguin Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Penguin books, 1999 (available at AIU Library) 2-Robert E. Stipe, ed. A Richer Heritage: Historic Preservation in the Twenty-First Century, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. 3-Jokilehto, J., 2011, ICCROM and the Conservation of Cultural Heritage; A History of the Organization’s First 50 Years, 1959-2009, ICCROM Conservation Studies 11, Rome 4-Burns, John A, et all, eds. Recording Historic Structures. Second edition, Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2004. 5- Instructions for Recording Historical Resources. Sacramento: Office of Historic Preservation, March 1995. http://ohp.parks.ca.gov/pages/1054/files/manual95.pdf 6-Bucher, Ward, and Christine Madrid, eds. Dictionary of Building Preservation. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1996. 7-Feilden, Bernard, Conservation of Historic Buildings. Third edition, Architectural Press, Oxford, 2003.

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