This book focuses on the management and conservation of architectural heritage with the aim of increasing awareness about the value of such conservation and of saving what is left of history, which in turn rewards societies by supporting the tourism industry, generating economic return, and preserving communities' identities.
Since it has become an essential need to manage and conserve the architectural heritage in order to protect the identity and heritage of a city, there appeared a gap between the theory and its application. Therefore, a considerable amount of attention has been directed by experts in this field toward emphasizing the contribution of heritage conservation in order to inspire the development of imaginative, useful high-quality design.
About the Author: Antonella Versaci is a Researcher and Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Kore University of Enna, where she is responsible for the Laboratory of Restoration of Architectural and Cultural Heritage. She teaches in the Master of Architecture program and is an Associate researcher at the Institut Parisien de Recherche Architecture Urbanistique Société (IPRAUS), a research laboratory of the ENSAPB - National Superior School of Architecture of Paris-Belleville. She holds a master's degree in Building Engineering from the University of Messina, and earned specialist degrees in Urban Preservation, and Strategic Planning and Management in Paris. In 2005, she received a PhD degree cum laude in Architecture from the University of Paris VIII.
Hocine Bougdah is a Reader in Architectural Technology at the Canterbury School of Architecture, University for the Creative Arts, Canterbury, UK, where he is also a Reader in and subject area leader for Technology and the Environment. He has overall responsibility for the school's curriculum design, delivery and assessment Architectural Technology at both undergraduate and post-graduate levels. He also supervises a number of researchers. Dr Bougdah's interests focus on the technological, ecological and human aspects of architectural design., and his research covers topics such as sustainable design, innovative low tech/low energy/low impact buildings, spatial experience of users and issues of culture, urbanisation and globalisation. Alongside his academic role, he runs a design/consultancy practice.
Dr Natsuko Akagawa is Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland. She researches heritage discourse, politics and practice in a global context and is the Series General Editor for Routledge Research on Museums and Heritage in Asia. She is the author of Heritage conservation in Japan's cultural diplomacy (Routledge 2015), the seminal work theorising Heritage and Cultural Diplomacy. Her other books include Safeguarding Intangible Heritage (Routledge 2019), Intangible Heritage (Routledge 2009) and Places of traumatic memory (2020). She is an Expert Member for International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), International Scientific Committee on Intangible Cultural Heritage, Scientific Committee on Vernacular Architecture for ICOMOS, a member of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) and a member of International Committee of Memorial Museums of ICOM.
Nicola Cavalagli has over 10 years of experience in the field of civil and architectural engineering. He aims to design, validate and promote responsive systems and solutions for effective resilience to climate change effects based on holistic, multidisciplinary approaches. Cavalagli's research interests include civil engineering, architectural engineering, finite element method and computation mechanics.
