Don't Tear It Down! Preserving the Earthquake Resistant Vernacular Architecture of Kashmir (Adobe Reader) ebook download Randolph Langenbach

Don't Tear It Down! Preserving the Earthquake Resistant Vernacular Architecture of Kashmir

This book makes the case for the preservation of the traditional domestic architecture that make up the urban form of Srinagar and the other cities in Kashmir. Published initially by UNESCO's New Delhi Office for distribution in Indian and Pakistan Administered Kashmir, the book is a product of UNESCO's mission to advance scientific understanding following the 2005 Kashmir earthquake which affected both Pakistan and India. The author, international heritage preservation consultant Randolph Langenbach, brings to it a vision of how the heritage buildings of Kashmir can become an armature on which to help rebuild people's pride of place after years of civil unrest. The work makes the case for preservation, not in spite of the antiquated construction of these buildings, but because of it. It is framed on the capacity of the best examples of Kashmiri traditional construction to resist one of Nature's most prodigious forces - earthquakes. By discussing two traditional forms of construction found in Kashmir: 'taq' and 'dhajji dewari', this book documents an often ignored architectural heritage and a construction tradition that has demonstrated a level of earthquake-resistance that has led experts to introduce their attributes into the Indian and Pakistan building codes and to use features of them as the basis of ideas for how to improve the earthquake performance of modern structures of reinforced concrete. The book is illustrated with photographs by the author, who is also a noted photographer.

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Title of ebook: Don't Tear It Down! Preserving the Earthquake Resistant Vernacular Architecture of Kashmir
ISBN: 9780979680731
parent-ISBN: 9780979680717
Publisher: Oinfroin Media
Internet download file size: 8476 kb
Published: 09-2009
Released online for download: 09-17-2009
Author of eBook: Langenbach, Randolph

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