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Listen "Mud Talks 15-4: Preserving Earthen Architecture - Building Assessments, Identifying Damage & Structural Issues, Seismic Concerns"
Episode Synopsis
With Mud Talks 15-4 we continue a special eight-part miniseries dedicated to the topic of preserving earthen architecture. In this fourth episode of the series we speak to Jake Barrow, Program Director at Cornerstones Community Partnerships. We speak about earthen building assessments, identifying damage & structural issues as well as basic engineering principles & seismic/structural retrofit of historic earthen buildings.Resources & Further Reading:Adobe Conservation - A Preservation Handbook pp. 54 to 70 and 85 to 98by Cornerstones Community Partnerships (Author), Francisco Uviña Contreras (Illustrator)Publisher: Sunstone Press (August 15, 2006)ISBN-13: 978-0865345270https://www.cstones.org/booksEarthen Architecture and Seismic Codes; Lessons From the Fieldby Edward Crocker, Crocker Ltd. Architectural Conservation, Trustee, US/ICOMOShttps://crockerltd.net/earthen_architecture_lessons.pdfEarthen Architecture Initiative Seismic Retrofitting Project by The Getty Conservation Institutehttps://www.getty.edu/conservation/publications_resources/pdf_publications/pdf/earthen_arch_seismic_bib.pdf
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