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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.

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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!

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.

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 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.

	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. Click "Presentation" to see lecture video once you enter the World Bank webpage. Also available on YouTube: 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.

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