Abstract Contemporary architecture seems to turn its back on the past in terms of raw materials taken from environment, their transformation into building components and way they are assembled create buildings. The global challenge preserving environment forces us rethink we produce today. Within this challenge, shows possible ways fill gap between tradition modernity. However, need understand ...

The combination of thermographic and geometric recording has always been an issue for architectural heritage diagnostic investigations. Multidisciplinary projects often require integrating multi-sensor information—including metric temperature data—to extract valid conclusions regarding the state-of-preservation historical buildings. Towards this direction, recent technological advancements in c...

Based on the hypothesis that disaster risk is constructed socially and historically, this article shows the importance of keeping alive the historical memory of disaster by means of architectural and urban heritage conservation. This is illustrated with three examples of Latin American World Heritage cities, where disasters like floods and earthquakes have shaped urban form. Therefore, the stud...

Interventions on the built environment and more generally on buildings of the past, including the recent past, and their management call for fine-tuned knowledge and organization skills in all the related areas, from planning to maintenance. In Italy, even today, these activities are frequently dealt with – by public authorities and private individuals alike – in inappropriate or inadequate way...

Multimedia applications concerning Cultural Heritage represent a great opportunity to spread the knowledge about the history, culture and tourist environment of a specific site. But this kind of applications requires a large effort in term of costs in order to guarantee the high quality needed. This requirement has also a remarkable impact on the technology used to realize the multimedia conten...

During the period between 1860 and 1940, Downtown Cairo witnessed a major building boom that gave birth to a unique architecture combining European styles with local influences and materials. The architectural product of that era will never be equalled and we need to increase the public awareness to these historic buildings that may be less than a hundred years old. The purpose of this project ...

Interventions on the built environment and more generally on buildings of the past, including the recent past, and their management call for fine-tuned knowledge and organization skills in all the related areas, from planning to maintenance. Special and separate attention is paid, on one hand, to older and historical buildings and structures, on the other to contemporary architecture, in both c...

In last years all the activities developed in the cultural heritage field have shown the necessity to integrate different analytical methodologies and technologies to obtain a cognitive apparatus of our architectural monuments, both from geometric and materical-