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Building Conservation Technology

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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A tragic fire on 24 May 2014 in Glasgow, Scotland:
A fire in the Art Nouveau masterpiece by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, the Glasgow School of Art has reportedly destroyed the iconic interior of the library, and seriously damaged the building.
Here are my composite photos of it taken in 2006. Click on photos to Enlarge

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

Here you can find a preview of this movie, which is a work in progress.

A Short - 4 minute movie from photos taken in Italy:

Pescetti di Trani

BUILDING RESTORATION AND TOWN PLANNING

BUILDING CONSTRUCTION IN EARTHQUAKE AREAS

2010 HAITI EARTHQUAKE
- WMF Haiti Gingerbread Book
2005 KASHMIR EARTHQUAKE IN PAKISTAN AND INDIA
2004 BAM, IRAN EARTHQUAKE
2001 NISQUALLY EARTHQUAKE, USA
2001 BHUJ EARTHQUAKE, INDIA
1999 EARTHQUAKES IN TURKEY
- CONFERENCE ON "Traditional construction in Earthquake Areas," Istanbul, Nov. 2000.
1986 EL SALVADOR EARTHQUAKE
1755 LISBON, PORTUGAL post-Earthquake Reconstruction - POMBALINO WALLS
1989: Prof. Langenbach's First publication on the subject of earthquakes and masonry construction: "Bricks,Mortar and Earthquakes," APT Bulletin

PROTOTYPE BASE-ISOLATED HOUSE PROJECT

BUILDING CONSTRUCTION IN OTHER DISASTERS

WORLD TRADE CENTER, NYC, 9/11/01

PUBLICATIONS by Randolph Langenbach (grouped under the following headings)

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In Bhuj, India, 2001

Randolph Langenbach

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

RECENT AND CURRENT

PROJECTS

INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS on Earthquakes and traditional construction For the 9/11 World Trade Center collapse, see bottom of this page
	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

	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.

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

	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

	PUERTO PLATA DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Video Presentations (Espa�ol + English) "Walkway to the Sea" A Town Planning Proposal for Puerto Plata CENTRO HIST�RICO 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

2002 was the year of the Molise Earthquake	2002-2003 Rome Prize Papers, American Academy in Rome, Papers on Traditional Construction in Earthquake Areas Paper on "Integrity of Structure" for ICOMOS,General Assembly 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
	NISQUALLY EARTHQUAKE OF 28 FEB. 2001 State of Washington, USA

	WORLD TRADE CENTER, NEW YORK CITY Tuesday , September 11, 2001

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Lectures
by Randolph Langenbach

Click on Titles to link to videos

TEDx Talk by Randolph Langenbach: CLICK HERE For all of 2013 TEDx AmoskeagMillyard Show CLICK HERE

	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.

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

ICOMOS	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.

	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


	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.

LINKS TO

RELATED

information

UNITED STATES
	FEMA TECHNICAL PUBLICATIONS

	2007 LINKS to FEMA Hazard Mitigation and Disaster Preparedness Documents of General Interest (Culled specifically for Haiti and the Dominican Republic)
	Links to Red Cross Documents en Espa�ol
	WWW.QUAKEINFO.ORG Hazard Mitigation information for the homeowner

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