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A web publishing site of the work of Randolph Langenbach,
with related works in the field of Building Conservation and Disaster Recovery

 
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In Bhuj, India, 2001

 

Randolph Langenbach

M-Arch (Harvard), Dipl.Conservation (York, England)

 

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RECENT AND CURRENT

 PROJECTS


JUST PUBLISHED


1) The Book:

ROME WAS!
The Eternal City From Piranesi to the Present


2) The MOVIE:
Rome Was! Ruins Eternal

This is a 30 minute movie made from a series of still photographs of the same views that Piranesi, and other artists, documented in the 18th century. 

www.piranesian.com

ALSO a recent photographic art exhibition at San Francisco's
Joel Garzoli Fine Art Gallery


other Short MoviES
by Randolph Langenbach

------ Pescetti di Trani ------

A  4 minute movie from still photos taken in 2003 of the
fish and fishermen of Trani, Italy:
  

------ Oliveto Vecchio ------

A 6 minute video from a slideshow of photographs taken of ancient olive trees taken in Frontoio, Puglia, southern Italy in 2002.  Some have been given humorous names in this show, based on their appearance.
(NOTE: This video is silent.)

------ Angkor Temples Over Time ------

A 7 minute video of the temples of Angkor Watt in Cambodia showing historic photos matched together with contemporary photos taken in 2005.



PBS NOVA  show HIMALAYAN MEGAQUAKE on Nepal Earthquake
was aired first on January 27, 2016.
Randolph Langenbach appears in the last 10 minutes of the film.


CLICK HERE
To go to Langenbach's NEPAL website, with a link to Himalayan Megaquake on the PBS Website

www.traditional-is-modern.net/nepal.html

Also find on that page a several movies and videos of lectures in Nepal and in Arizona about Gabion Bands, a new technology intended to make rubble stone with mud mortar construction earthquake safe!


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Lectures
by Randolph Langenbach

 Click on Titles to link to videos of Lectures

 

 

2021 ISCARSAH Webinar on Earthquakes and Traditional Construction

This is a video copy of Randolph Langenbach's 30 minute Lecture given as as the closing talk in PART 3 of a 3 part ISCARSAH Webinar on traditional construction (including masonry construction) in earthquake areas. 

This recording of Langenbach's talk is 30 minutes long. 

For the other talks and the Q & A, during this PART 3 of this series of ZOOM webinars listed in the schedule shown here on the left, please open YouTube.com, and in the search box type " ISCARSAH ". Then you will see videos of "Earthquakes and Traditional Construction PARTs 1, 2, and 3. but I recommend that for the LANGENBACH talk, that you click on the title above because this copy has been much improved over the raw recording of the ZOOM presentation that is posted on YouTube.

 



Rediscovering the
Potential for Resilience
in
Traditional Masonry Buildings

A 45 minute plenary address at the Oregon AIA Unreinforced Masonry Buildings Seismic Resilience Symposium in Portland on July 29, 2019.  


Frames and Solid Walls:
Earthquake Resilient Construction
from Roman Times to the

Origins of the Modern Skyscraper

This is an hour-long lecture at ROMA TRE University in Rome on 26 March.  This longer than usual lecture covers more sites and countries than the conference lectures below.


Post-Earthquake Reconstruction in Nepal with Gabion Bands

a 30 minute illustrated lecture at the
Housing Recovery and Reconstruction Platform (HRRP)
on 15 November, Kathmandu, Nepal

This link is to my Nepal page which has my other explanatory material on current work ongoing in Nepal.



2015
Video of
INVITED LECTURE
at the
20th Anniversary
Natural Building Colloquium

featuring
Rural NEPAL Stone Masonry Construction Project


Kingston, N.M., 2015

38 MINUTES
 


2015

Keynote
TRADITIONAL IS MODERN
Traditional Building Technology for Resilience...

at the
World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction,
Tokyo, Japan 2015

25 Minutes


2014
Video of
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Taking the "Frame"
out of "Timber Frame"

at the
World Conference on Timber Engineering,
Quebec City, Cn. 2014

45 MINUTES + 2 minute introduction and 7 minutes Q&A


2014
On a related topic:  Preserving Historic Stone Houses in Northern Italy



An 18 minute talk at the:
2014 Canova International Architect Encounter

Domodossola, Italy, June29, 2014


2013

TEDx Talk by Randolph Langenbach:  CLICK HERE

For all of 2013 TEDx AmoskeagMillyard Show CLICK HERE


ICOMOS

 

 

2012
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.


2012
FRAMES V. SOLID WALLS:
An historical precedent for earthquake collapse avoidance in Modern Buildings

CLICK HERE for a 35 minute excerpt of the London and Oxford talk on the Traditional earthquake-resistant construction in
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.

 


2012
TRADITIONAL IS MODERN
Traditional building techniques saving buildings in earthquakes

Texas A&M University
Center for Heritage Conservation's 13th annual Historic Preservation Symposium
Keynote Address
Video produced by Texas A&M


2011
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. 
 

Direct YouTube hyperlink:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B57Nn71kbZA


2008
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.

 

If the USGS link does not work, CLICK HERE for a backup copy of the video.



 

LINKS TO

 RELATED

 information


WEB LINKS


UNITED STATES


FEMA TECHNICAL PUBLICATIONS


LINKS to
FEMA Website and FEMA Library of Hazard Mitigation and Disaster Preparedness Documents of General Interest
Links to
Red Cross Documents
en Español

WWW.QUAKEINFO.ORG
Hazard Mitigation information for the homeowner

 

 

   
 
   
 
   
   

 


INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS on Earthquakes and traditional construction

 

For the 9/11 World Trade Center collapse, see bottom of this page



CLICK HERE for information on LECTURE in LONDON MAY 2, 2019


This lecture can be watched online - follow the instructions on the PDF



Langenbach quoted in 2018 CNN News Story about reinforced concrete construction.


Concrete is a disaster for our planet: can the building industry break its addiction?

Written by THOMAS PAGE, CNN, May 2, 2018

 


Amatrice , Italy after August 24 2016 Earthquake

A 1.5 minute video showing the historic center of Amatrice before and after the earthquake.


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


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


HAITI HOME PAGE

1)  Preserving Haiti's Gingerbread Houses Randolph Langenbach, Stephen Kelley, Patrick Sparks, Kevin Rowell, and Martin Hammer, co-authors.  Published by the World Monuments Fund, 2010.  Available in FRENCH and ENGLISH

CLICK HERE for a link to a FREE download the 80 page book as a PDF.



JUMP TO: Haiti Project in the News
JUMP TO: Pictometry Oblique Aerial Survey Mosaics

2)  More on Haiti

The HAITI HOME 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.

  


PUERTO PLATA
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

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(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.


2007
AFGHANISTAN:  KABUL RESTORATION

Turquoise Mountain Foundation & the Restoration of Murad Khane, a surviving piece of old Kabul 

 


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

2005 "COLLAPSE FROM THE INSIDE-OUT, The Impact of the 2003 Bam, Iran Earthquake on the Earthen Architecture of the Arg-e Bam," Proceedings, SismoAdobe2005: International Seminar on Earthen Buildings in Seismic Areas, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru, 2005. (1.6 MB)

2005 "EARTHQUAKE AND THE CITADEL," in Mina Marefat, Editor, Architecture & Disaster: Guiding Sustainable Reconstruction, pre-publication page proofs of a book reporting on the International Conference and Architectural Design Studio on Bam at the Library of Congress, and the Catholic University of America, 2005. (700 kb)  (This is an edited transcript of a lecture in the Bam)

NEWS REPORT:  US Dept. State News Report on the Bam Studio and International Conference at the Library of Congress, December 21, 2004.

 



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


January 26,2001 BHUJ, GUJARAT, INDIA EARTHQUAKE
 

UNESCO

MISSION TO INDIA

   

INDIAN NATIONAL TRUST FOR ARTISTIC AND CULTURAL HERITAGE

Survey and Reports on Bhuj Earthquake damage


UNESCO - ICOMOS CONFERENCE

EARTHQUAKE-SAFE: Lessons to be Learned from Traditional Construction

ISTANBUL, TURKEY, November,2000

   

 

SITES WITHIN THE

UNITED STATES


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NISQUALLY EARTHQUAKE OF 28 FEB. 2001

State of Washington, USA


World Trade Center 2, BEFORE

WORLD TRADE CENTER, NEW YORK CITY

Tuesday , September 11, 2001

 


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