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1 online resource (xv, 718 pages) |
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Front Cover; Table of contents; Preface; Organization and committees; Conference sponsors; Plenary lectures; "Pisé": Evolution, innovations, resistances and future directions; Which course of action for earthen architectural heritage preservation?; Earthen architecture: Clay feet or a feat of clay; Restoration of rammed earth structures; The Nasrid ramparts of the Albaicín (Granada, Spain): An analysis of materials and building techniques; Torres Bermejas: Conserving the past; Rammed earth architecture and construction |
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Methodological proposal for rammed-earth wall characterization: Understanding of material in preliminary studiesThe formalization as an identification process of a constructive way: The rammed earth of Cherchell (Algeria); Traditional braces for rammed earth walls constructions in La Manchuela albaceteña, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain; Godelleta's watchtower (Valencia, Spain); Earthen architectural heritage in the South Piedmont area (Italy): Strategies for its re-evaluation and for local territorial sustainable development |
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The rammed earth walls in the watchtowers of the order of Santiago in Albacete province (Spain)Montroy Islamic Tower (Valencia, Spain); Sustainability lessons from the past: Rammed earth architecture in Vojvodina, Serbia; The monitoring of rammed earth experimental walls and characterization of rammed earth samples; Earthen architecture in Galicia (Spain): Rammed earth in Terra de Lemos; Rammed earth walls in Serón de Nágima castle (Soria, Spain): Constructive lecture; Rammed earth-its use in new building and training as a building-school |
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Patrimonial rammed earth structures at the Sierra Nevada, MexicoCharacterization of compressed earth blocks built with natural low-cost energy stabilizers; Rammed earth architecture in the middle course of the river Júcar, Spain; About the rediscovery of the tapia valenciana; Clay in architecture: Slovenia and beyond; From the ground up: Building the Dirt Works Studio; On perceptions of rammed earth; The construction of the Valencian rammed earth walls in the Corpus Christi College-Seminary in Valencia (Spain); Rammed-earth construction in Southern Morocco: A reappraisal of the technology |
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Analysis parameters for systematization of rammed earth walls in Granada and Almería (Andalucía, Spain)Rammed earth construction in El Rincón de Ademuz (Spain); Building rammed earth walls in the municipal swimming pool in Toro (Zamora, Spain); Introduction to traditional rammed-earth building in the Aragonian valley of Jiloca (Spain); The citadel of Reina (Badajoz, Spain)-10 years of interventions on its walls; Rammed earth architecture in La Hacienda de Santa Teresa Ixtafiayuca, Mexico; Restoration of the gypsum wall built with formwork in the tower of the castle of Villel (Teruel, Spain) |
| Summary |
Book deals with rammed earth architecture and its restoration, and with the construction techniques and restoration of all earthen structures |
| Notes |
"A Balkema book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and author index |
| Notes |
Text in English and Spanish |
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Print version record |
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Pisé -- Congresses
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Pisé -- Conservation and restoration -- Congresses
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Earth construction -- Congresses
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Earth construction -- Conservation and restoration -- Congresses
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Construction -- General.
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TECHNOLOGY / Construction / General
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Earth construction
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Pisé
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Electronic books
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Mileto, Camilla.
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Vegas López-Manzanares, Fernando.
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Cristini, Valentina.
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| ISBN |
9780203085653 |
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0203085655 |
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0415621259 |
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9780415621250 |
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9780429216862 |
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0429216866 |
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9781136199493 |
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1136199497 |
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9781136199530 |
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1136199535 |
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