318) Preserving and Restoring Monuments and Historic Buildings ***

UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) (1972). Preserving and Restoring Monuments and Historic Buildings. UNESCO, Paris.

• Resoring monuments: historical background (ms15-30)
• Monument conservation programmes (ms31-48)
• General principles (ms49-62)
• Preliminary surveys (ms63-66)
• Classical and photogrammetric methods used in surveying architectural monuments (ms67-108)
• Factors contributing to the deterioration of monuments (ms109-147)
• Conservation and restoration: operational techniques (ms149-185)
• The restoration of bridges of artistic and historic interest (ms187-206)
• The preservation and restoration of wooden monuments in Japan (ms207-230)
• The conservation of sites and monuments in the new world (ms231-243)
• The conservation and restoration of historic quarters and cities (ms245-251)
• Training architect-restorers (ms253-260)
• Summary and discussion (ms261-267)
• Bibliography (ms243)