Analysis, Conservation, and Restoration of Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage: (Advances in Religious and Cultural Studies)

Communities have witnessed a fundamental shift in the ways they interact with heritage sites. Much of this change has been driven by the rapid democratization and widespread adoption of enabling technologies. As expediency is embraced in the collection and analysis of data, there may also be a certain amount of intimacy lost with both the tangible and intangible vestiges of the past. Analysis, Conservation, and Restoration of Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage is a collection of innovative research on the quantitative methods and digital workflows transforming cultural heritage. There is no contesting the value of advanced non-destructive diagnostic imaging techniques for the analysis of heritage structures and objects. Highlighting topics including 3D modeling, conservation, and digital surveying, this book is ideally designed for conservation and preservation specialists, archaeologists, anthropologists, historians, academicians, and students seeking current research on data-driven, evidence-based decision making to improve intervention outcomes.

About the Author :
Carlo Inglese Architect, PhD. Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Architecture of Sapienza University of Rome. From 2013 has the role of LiraLab Scientific Coordinator. Since 1993, he collaborates with various courses of the University Sector Disciplinary Drawing (Icar 17). From 2006 to 2012 he worked as a professor of architectural importance, to the Second Level University Master in “Architectural and Historical Building for the Recovery of Public Spaces - PARES Master” at the Sapienza University of Rome. In 2011, took part of the PhD College in “Sciences of Representation and Survey” of the Faculty of Architecture, Sapienza University of Rome. Since 1996, he has engaged in research at the University of Representation and Survey Department of the Faculty of Architecture at the Sapienza University of Rome. He has a deep knowledge in drawing and survey of architecture and archeology, through new information technologies, 3D laser scanners survey and digital photogrammetry. Alfonso Ippolito earned a PhD in 2006 degree of the thesis “Interaction between Sketching and Digital Architecture.” Since 2008, he was a research worker at ICAR 17, and Associate Professor at the Sapienza University of Rome. He works on new surveying techniques taking advantage of the 3D laser, on the elaboration of data, on the successive modelling of surface from point clouds, on the optimization of the latter in relation to architectural and archaeological surveying and in relation to designing. He has researched the following cultural heritage objects of the San Pietro Dome, the wooden model of San Pietro made by Antonio da Sangallo the Younger; the Roman theatre and amphitheater in Merida, Spain; the El Khaseneh theatre and the royal tombs at Petra. He participated in the PRIN, Firb and Euromed Heritage IV Programme financed research. He is an assistant Professor of higher education and courses for the degree of PhD. He is often a Chairman at international and national conferences. Since 2007 he sits on the editorial board of the periodical Disegnare. Since 2012, he sits on the scientific committee of the MAVNA Museum in Mazzano Romano, Rome.