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Réf.

41918

Type

chapter

Titre

The integrity of structure: should what is hidden inside the wall be considered a part of a historic building's cultural value?

Langues

English

Auteurs

Langenbach, Randolph

Auteurs institutionnels

ICOMOS Spain

Lieu de publication

Madrid

Pays de publication

Spain

Maison d'édition

ICOMOS Spain

Date

2002

Pages

p. 161-167

Titre de la source

Estrategias relativas al patrimonio cultural mundial. La salvaguarda en un mundo globalizado. Principios, practicas y perspectivas. 13th ICOMOS General Assembly and Scientific Symposium. Actas

Titre de conférence

ICOMOS 13th General Assembly: Strategies for the World’s Cultural Heritage - Preservation in a Globalised World - Principles, Practices, Perspectives

Lieu de conférence

Madrid, Spain

Date de conférence

1-5 December 2002

Mots-clés

structures of buildings / structural surveys / case studies / preservation / conservation of historic monuments / earthquake resistance

Pays mentionnés

Türkiye / United States

Monuments et sites

Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, Turkey / University of California’s South Hall, USA

N° Patrimoine mondial

356

Résumé en anglais

The collapse of the World Trade Center towers has irrevocably changed our perceptions of buildings, at least for a generation. Even now, a year after the event, we struggle to make sense of an event that, until it occurred, was beyond our imagination. Bridges, radio towers, or other structures can fall down, but, absent an earthquake, major modern engineered buildings are simply not known to do so. They seem so solid, so permanent. Or course, intellectually the collapse made sense. How could any building stand up to the fiery crash of a large fully loaded commercial airplane? But in fact they withstood that force – only to suddenly collapse an hour later into an indefinable pile of debris – except for the evocative Gothic ruin of the broken facade of each tower.

Document joint

161.pdf

Licence

Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (BY-NC-ND)

Document source

44337 - Spanish #44337