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BUILDING RESTORATION AND TOWN PLANNING
BUILDING
CONSTRUCTION IN
EARTHQUAKE
AREAS
BUILDING CONSTRUCTION IN
OTHER DISASTERS
PUBLICATIONS
by Randolph Langenbach (grouped under
the following
headings)
Website by
In Bhuj, India, 2001
Randolph
Langenbach
M-Arch
(Harvard),
Dipl.Conservation (York,
England)
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RECENT
AND CURRENT
PROJECTS
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INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS on
Earthquakes and traditional
construction
For the
9/11 World Trade Center collapse,
see bottom of this page
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ARMATURE CROSSWALL PROJECT
An Earthquake
Hazard Mitigation Proposal for
Vulnerable Reinforced Concrete
Buildings based on the Performance
of Traditional Timber and Masonry
Infill-wall Construction |
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The WORLD MONUMENTS FUND
available in FRENCH as well
as English
This book
is authored by
Randolph Langenbach, Stephen Kelley,
Patrick Sparks, Kevin Rowell, and
Martin Hammer.
CLICK HERE
for a link to a free download the 80
page book as a
PDF.
ALSO - for more information about
the project, the Haiti earthquake
and the Gingerbread Houses, please
see:
www.Haiti-Patrimoine.org.
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More on Haiti
HAITI HOME PAGE
The
"Haiti Page" includes:
(1) Magazine and news media articles on
the Gingerbread Project.
(2)
The maps and information on the "Desktop
Reconnaissance" using
high-resolution oblique aerial
photography donated to ICOMOS by
PICTOMETRY INTERNATIONAL
CORPORATION.
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BOOK
Published in 2009 by UNESCO
in India and republished in the USA
and Europe by Oinfroin Media.
Now available world-wide.
Don't
Tear It Down!
Preserving the Earthquake
Resistant Vernacular Architecture of
Kashmir.
Soft
cover book with 150
pages of text and over 200 photographs.
For
more information, see:
www.traditional-is-modern.net |
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PUERTO PLATA
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Video
Presentations
(Español
+ English)
"Walkway to the Sea"
A Town Planning Proposal for Puerto
Plata CENTRO HISTÓRICO
A self-running PowerPoint "Movie"
"CHOCOLATERA,
2003 - 2007"
Abandoned Chocolate Factory in
Puerto Plata to become an Arts
Center. |
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2007
AFGHANISTAN: KABUL RESTORATION
Turquoise Mountain
Foundation & the Restoration of
Murad Khane, a surviving piece of
old Kabul |
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2004
IRAN: BAM EARTHQUAKE of 2004
2004
“Soil Dynamics and the Earthquake Destruction of the
Arg-e Bam,” Iranian Journal of Seismology and
Earthquake Engineering, Tehran,
Iran.
2005
"Performance
of the Earthen Arg-e-Bam (Bam Citadel) during the 2003 Bam,
Iran, Earthquake," EERI Earthquake Spectra, Special
Issue on Bam, Iran Earthquake
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2002 was the year of the Molise Earthquake |
2002-2003
Rome
Prize Papers, American
Academy in Rome,
For The Piranesi Project- see
top of page.
MAPS
OF ROME |
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January 26,2001 BHUJ, GUJARAT, INDIA
EARTHQUAKE
UNESCO
MISSION
TO
INDIA |
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INDIAN
NATIONAL
TRUST
FOR
ARTISTIC
AND
CULTURAL
HERITAGE
Survey
and
Reports
on
Bhuj
Earthquake
damage |
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UNESCO
-
ICOMOS
CONFERENCE
EARTHQUAKE-SAFE:
Lessons
to
be
Learned
from
Traditional
Construction
ISTANBUL,
TURKEY,
November,2000 |
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Click Here for information on the
forthcoming movie:
Rome Was!
A Piranesian Vision
This is a 50 minute
movie version of the 2003 Rome Price Project called:
A Stratigraphy
of Views of Rome
Here
you can find a preview of this movie, which is a work in
progress.
Lectures
by Randolph Langenbach
Click on Titles
to link to videos
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FRAMES
V. SOLID WALLS:
An historical precedent for
earthquake collapse avoidance in
Modern Buildings
35 minute excerpt on:
India, Pakistan Turkey and Portugal.
This 35 minute excerpt from a
February 2012 Lecture at the
Institution of Structural Engineers
in London was made into a video
presentation so that it could be
shown in December 2012 at the New
Delhi, India TerraMela
Conference and at the
Institution of Engineers, Pakistan
Conference in Karachi,
Pakistan, 4 days apart. |
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BEIJING, CHINA TALK:
15 Minutes
on
Masonry, Reinforced Concrete
and Earthquakes.
A short 15 minute lecture at the
ICOMOS Symposium in Beijing in
October 2012 discussing the 2010
Haiti earthquake with comparisons
with the 1976 Tangshan earthquake
that killed a quarter of a million
people.
This talk and the paper that is
published here with it explains new
findings on the comparison between
the performance of traditional and
modern structures in Haiti and in
other earthquakes. |
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Online video
of Randolph Langenbach's lecture at the
World Bank Cultural Heritage
Thematic Group, Washington DC,
December 6, 2011.
Katcha
is Pucca & Pucca is
Katcha:
How an Ancient Technology can hold
the key to Preventing the
Earthquake-Collapse of Modern RC
Buildings.
Click "Presentation" to see
lecture video once you enter the
World Bank webpage.
Also
available on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B57Nn71kbZA
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CREATIVE DESTRUCTION:
Timber and Masonry Earthquake
Resistant Construction before the
Age of Steel and Reinforced Concrete
Randolph Langenbach's lecture at the
US
Geological Survey in Menlo Park,
California, November 19, 2008.
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