Multi-scale Perspectives on Building Heritage Conservation and Sustainable Cities

The book investigates modern architecture as an architectural and cultural heritage, highlighting with a holistic view of sustainability the aspects that have led to epochal changes in the way cities are designed and lived. Currently, many of these buildings spread throughout the world are not recognized as architectural heritage due to the lack of knowledge of innovations in design approaches, materials and building technologies and their social and economic implications in the development of contemporary cities. The main objective is to raise awareness, promote, revalue and preserve the building heritage of the last century through their maintenance and adaptive reuse to the changing needs of the community according to new models of the circular economy and the use of digital technologies. The topics treated with multidisciplinary approaches reconstruct a recent past of which memory has been lost and highlight how the heritage built is a resource of incalculable value that can greatly contribute to the sustainability of cities.

Popular architecture, industrialization, and urban growth: the modern aesthetic experience.- Urbanism as incubator for Social Reform: Bruno Taut and the accomplished utopia of the Siedlungen.- Re-knowing to re-enable the modern architecture of Giuseppe Samonà.- From rationalism to brutalism: an architectural heritage to be sustainability transformed. Intervention strategies.- The metamorphosis of the Built Heritage: a systematic review of Adaptive Reuse Research.- Investigating Circular Economy Strategies in Modern Architecture Heritage Conservation: The Case of the PTT Stamp Museum.- Examples of modern architecture in northern Spain from the perspectives of distinguished structural engineers.- Factories and industrial buildings as a 1960 to 1980s heritage. Issues for their preservation and reuse.- Interventions in a DOCOMOMO listed heritage. The Cheste Workers University Auditorium-Paraninfo and the Getty Keeping It Modern Program.- Revitalization of the University Laboral of Gijón Theater: Pre-serving the grandeur of Modern Architecture through acoustic virtualization.- “Las Trescientas”: A Neighborhood of Cáceres (Spain) of the Modern Movement for the Working Class.- The Preservation of tile vaults: Traditional Construction in Modern Architecture.- Rehabilitation of the Social Security Clinic in Cali, Colombia (1960): Challenges of Health Modern Architecture Adapted to the Tropics.- Innovation and experimentation for sustainable city in the Antonio Rueda housing complex (Valencia, Spain).

Graziella Bernardo was born in Potenza on July 19, 1969. After graduating from classical high school Quinto Orazio Flacco in Potenza (Italy), in 1996, she graduated with honors in Engineering for the Environment and the Territory from the University of Basilicata. In 2000, she obtained the Ph.D. in Science and Technology of Minerals and Industrial By-products from the University of Sassari (Italy). She is a professor of material for architecture, material for restoration, sustainable materials, and technologies for cultural heritage at the Department for Humanistic, Scientific, and Social Innovation of Basilicata University. Her research activities are focused on sustainability of building processes and recovery, conservation and enhancement of cultural heritage by means of the development of tailor-made green materials and heritage digital material passports (HDMPs).

Luis Manuel Palmero Iglesias was born in Valencia on December 2, 1957. He graduated in Building Engineering and Architecture at the Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain) in 1987 and in Fine Arts at the Faculty of Fine Arts of San Carlos (Valencia, Spain) in 2005. He received his European Ph.D. with honors in Architecture, Building, Urban, and Landscape from the Polytechnic University of Valencia and University of Florence (Italy). He was awarded the prize for best doctoral thesis in 2014. In 2018, he qualified as a full professor in the Italian disciplinary scientific sector CEAR 08/A Architectural Engineering. He is a professor of Construction and Building Systems at the Department of Building Constructions of Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain). He has recognized international experience as a lecturer and researcher in the field of architectural heritage interventions