Big Stuff 2015

Creator: Piotr Gerber Date: 2015 Introduction: The activities carried out by the Foundation of Industrial Heritage Preservation in the Silesia region aiming at establishing the Museum of Zinc Production History in Katowice –Szopienice are coming to an end. At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries the Upper Silesia was one of the biggest … Read more

Creator: Peter Du Rietz & Anna Lindgren Date: 2015 Introduction: Many of the presentations on this seminar deals with how to physically preserve industrial buildings and large machinery. Our experience are that there is a perspective that needs to complement these ways of preserving and documenting. Factories are built on commercial industrial sites with an … Read more

Creator: Yiping Dong Date: 2015 Abstract: This presentation will discuss the designation, conservation practice and heritage research about the large scale industrial structures in China. Cases from Shanghai, Beijing, Huangshi, Benxi, and Tangshan, etc.will offer a general view about the big picture of industrial heritage conservation in China. Reference: Yiping Dong, ‘Large scale industrial structures conservation … Read more

Creator: Clara Deck Date: 2015 Introduction: This paper ells of R. Buckminster Fuller’s “Dwelling Machine,” the Dymaxion House, and recounts the original project to conserve and reconstruct its prototype as a permanent exhibit in The Henry Ford Museum. Long-term exhibition entails yearly maintenance and eventually required modifications to accommodate visitor traffic. Damages found in 2012 … Read more

Creator: Claudia Chemello & Paul Mardikian Date: 2015 Introduction: The Western Clay Manufacturing Company site in Helena, Montana is a large brick and tile manufacturing site founded in the 1880’s. Under the leadership of its owners, Charles Bray and his son, Archie Bray, Sr., Western Clay became Montana’s premiere brick and hollow clay tile manufacturing … Read more

Creator: Sarah Jane Brazil Date: 2015 Introduction: In 2014, I had the privilege to evaluate the Japanese Government’s World Heritage nomination for the sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution: Kyushu-Yamaguchi and related areas(1850s-1910), in terms of the requirements of integrity, authenticity, protection and management prescribed in the Operational Guidelines for the Implementation of the World … Read more