Egypt has a countless heritage of mansions, castles, cities, towns, villages, industrial and manufacturing sites. This richness of heritage provides endless and matchless prospects for culture. Despite being famous worldwide, Egypt’s heritage still is in constant need of protection. Political conflicts and religious revolutions form a direct threat to buildings in various areas, historic, archa...

Photogrammetric documentation can provide a sound database for the needs of architectural heritage preservation. However, the major part of photogrammetric documentation production is not used for subsequent architectural heritage projects, due to lack of knowledge of photogrammetric documentation accuracy. In addition, there are only a few studies with rigorous analysis of the requirements for...

Mysore city is known as the ‘city of palaces’. It is an ancient, historical, cultural capital and a heritage city in India. The city has been recognised as a heritage city under the cultural tag both by the state and national governments. The total harmony of architectural buildings, sites, lakes, parks and open spaces and the back drop of Chamundi hills adds to the city’s attraction. The city ...

Abstract: Aside of architectural heritage that is readily visible to the public like well-known tourist sites, there are many heritage objects which only exist in restricted excavation sites or in museums to where they have been moved. Some of them exist in literature only. Archaeologists put a lot of effort into the reconstruction of architectural heritage, even in digital form. Still, most of...

The classification of the images taken during the measurement of an architectural asset is an essential task within the digital documentation of cultural heritage. A large number of images are usually handled, so their classification is a tedious task (and therefore prone to errors) and habitually consumes a lot of time. The availability of automatic techniques to facilitate these sorting tasks...

CAHRISMA “Conservation of the Acoustical Heritage by the Revival and Identification of Sinan’s Mosque’s Acoustics”, research project carried on within the Fifth Framework INCO-MED Programme of the European Commission, is designed by the goal to innovate the acoustical heritage concept in the field of architectural conservation. The main objectives of this research are identification, revival an...

Over the last few decades, a significant amount of literature on preservation and adaptive reuse historical buildings has been published. More recently, use digital technologies in heritage projects academic research become increasingly topical worldwide. However, topic architectural education teaching history relation to is less discussed. This paper contributes this relevant necessary that no...