Architectural preservation, restoration, & adaptive re-use: General resources

Bollack, Françoise Astorg, Old buildings, new forms : new directions in architectural transformations, Monacelli Press, NA105.B65 2013 

Brand, Stewart, How buildings learn : what happens after they're built, Viking, NA2542.4.B73 1994 

"Design for adaptability, deconstruction, & reuse" (PDF available via the AIA) 

ICOMOS, Charter - Principles for the analysis, conservation and structural restoration of architectural heritage (2003)

ICOMOS, Charter on the built vernacular heritage (1999)

ICOMOS, International charter for the conservation and restoration of monuments and sites (Venice, 1964) 

Jäger, Frank Peter (Editor), Old and new : design manual for revitalizing existing buildings, Walter de Gruyter, 2010 (Ebook available via ProQuest Ebook Central) 

Simons, Robert, et al., Retired, rehabbed, reborn : the adaptive reuse of America’s derelict religious buildings and schools, Kent State University Press, 2017 (Ebook availablevia ProQuest Ebook Central)

Tostões, Ana (Editor), Modern heritage : reuse, renovation, restoration, Birkhäuser, NA680.M63 2022 

Wong, Liliane, Adaptive reuse : extending the lives of buildings, Walter de Gruyter, 2016 (Ebook available via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Bandarin, Francesco & Ron van Oers (Editors), Reconnecting the city : the historic urban landscape approach and the future of urban heritage, John Wiley & Sons, 2014 (Ebook available via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Cody, Jeff & Francesco Siravo (Editors), Historic cities : issues in urban conservation, Getty Conservation Institute, CC135.H469 2019

Crinson, Mark (Editor), Urban memory : history and amnesia in the modern city, Taylor & Francis, 2005 (Ebook available via ProQuest Ebook Central) 

Crosby, Theo, The Necessary monument: its future in the civilized city, New York Graphic Society, CC135.C74 1970

De Vita, Maurizio (Editor), Historic cities and sustainability, Firenze University Press, 2012 (Ebook available  via ProQuest Ebook Central)

De Waal, Maaike, et al. (Editors), Living (World) Heritage cities : opportunities, challenges, and future perspectives of people-centered approaches in dynamic historic urban landscapes, Sidestone Press, 2023 (Ebook available via ProQuest Ebook Central) 

Howe, Kathryn Welch, The Los Angeles historic resource survey report : a framework for a citywide historic resource survey, Getty Conservation Institute, 2008

ICOMOS, Charter for the conservation of historic towns and urban areas (Washington, D.C., 1987)

Maddox, Steven, Saving Stalin's imperial city : historic preservation in Leningrad, 1930-1950, Indiana University Press, 2014 (Ebook available via ProQuest Ebook Central) 

Mason, Randall, The Once and future New York : historic preservation and the modern city, University of Minnesota Press, 2009 (Ebook available via ProQuest Ebook Central)

"Monumentality and the City," Harvard Architecture Review, no. 4, 1984 (Theme issue) 

Semes, Steven W. (Editor), New building in old cities : writings by Gustavo Giovannoni on architectural and urban conservation, Getty Conservation Institute, NA27 .G56 2024

Urban heritage for resilience, UNESCO, 2023
 

Avrami, Erica, Preservation and the new data landscape, Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, NA105.P75 2019

Burns, John A., et al. (Editors), Recording historic structures, 2nd edition, American Institute of Architects Press, E159.R425 2004 (Manual for Historic American Buildings Survey, Historic American Engineering Record, and Historic American Landscapes Survey) 

California Office of Historic Preservation, Instructions for recording historical resources, 1995 

Historic American Buildings Survey / Historic American Engineering Record / Historic American Landscapes Survey Prints & photographs online catalog 

ICOMOS, Principles for the recording of monuments, groups of buildings and sites (1996)

Myers, David & Janet Hansen, Inventories and surveys for heritage management: lessons for the digital age, Getty Publications, 2024 (Ebook available via Getty Virtual Library) 

Older, smaller, better: measuring how the character of buildings and blocks influences urban vitality, National Trust for Historic Buildings, 2014 

Thornes, Robin & John Bold (Editors), Documenting the cultural heritage, Getty Information Institute, 1998 

US National Park Service Historic Property Project Documentation (HPPD) overview and guide
 

Abramson, Daniel M., Obsolescence : an architectural history, The University of Chicago Press, NA2543.T43A27 2016 (Also available as an ebook via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Arrhenius, Thordis, The fragile monument - on conservation and modernity, Black Dog Publishing, NA105.A774 2012 

Bucer, Maria & Nancy Merriwether Wingfield, Staging the Past: the politics of commemoration in Habsburg Central Europe, 1848 to the present, 2001 (Ebook available via ProQuest Ebook Central) 

Choay, Françoise, The invention of the historic monument, Cambridge University Press, NA2543.H55C4813 2001 

Harrison, Rodney, Heritage : critical approaches, Taylor & Francis, 2012 (Ebook available via ProQuest Ebook Central) 

Jerome, Pamela, “An Introduction to authenticity in preservation”, APT Bulletin: The Journal of Preservation Technology, v. 39, #2/3, 2008, pp. 3–7 (PDF available via  Jstor)

Lowenthal, David, The past is a foreign country, Cambridge University Press, D16.8.L52 1985

"Monument/Memory," Oppositions, #25, Fall 1982 (Special issue. See Reigl, "The Modern Cult of Monuments") 

Murtagh, William J., Keeping time : the history and theory of preservation in America, Main Street Press, E159.M875 1988 

The Nara document on authenticity, Government of Japan and Nara Prefecture, in cooperation with UNESCO, ICCROM and ICOMOS (1994) 

Otero-Pailos, Jorge, et al. (Editors), Experimental preservation, Lars Müller, NA105.E96 2016

Price, Nicholas Stanley, et al. (Editors), Historical and philosophical issues in the conservation of cultural heritage, Getty Conservation Institute, N8555.H57 1996 

Swenson, Astrid, The Rise of heritage : preserving the past in France, Germany and England, 1789-1914, Cambridge University Press, 2013 (Ebook available via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Upton, Dell. What can and can't be said : race, uplift, and monument building in the contemporary South, Yale University Press, 2015 (ebook available via ProQuest Ebook Central) 

Waterton, E. & S. Watson, The Palgrave handbook of contemporary heritage research, Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015 (Ebook available via ProQuest Ebook Central) 

"What a monument can do", Future Anterior: Journal of Historic Preservation, Vol. 8, No. 2, Winter 2011 (Theme issue, PDF available via Jstor)

Bandarin, Francesco, & Ron van Oers (Editors), The Historic urban landscape : managing heritage in an urban century, John Wiley & Sons, 2012 (Ebook available via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Birnbaum, Charles A., "Protecting cultural landscapes: planning, treatment and management of historic landscapes", US National Park Service Preservation Briefs, #36, 1994

Birnbaum, Charles A. & Mary V. Hughes (Editors), Design with culture : claiming America's landscape heritage, University of Virginia Press, SB472.8.D47 2005

De la Torre, Marta (Editor), The Conservation of archaeological sites in the Mediterranean region, Getty Publications, 1997 

Favretti, Rudy J., & Joy Putman Favretti, Landscapes and gardens for historic buildings : a handbook for reproducing and creating authentic landscapes, Bloomsbury, 2017 (Ebook avialable via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Garden History journal (Issues available from 1972 via Jstor)

Historic Gardens Review (Journal published 1995-2018, complete back issues are available via Jstor) 

ICOMOS, Charter on historic gardens (Florence, 1981)

ICOMOS-IFLA, Principles concerning rural landscapes as heritage (2017)

Jakle, John A. & Keith A. Sculle, Remembering roadside America : preserving the recent past as landscape and place, University of Tennessee Press, 2011 (Ebook available via ProQuest Ebook Central) 

Nilsson, Christer, et al., “Evaluating the process of ecological restoration”, Ecology and Society, v. 21, #1, 2016 (PDF available via Jstor)

Rohr, Jason R., et al., “The Ecology and economics of restoration: when, what, where, and how to restore ecosystems”, Ecology and Society, v. 23, #2, 2018 (PDF available via Jstor)

"10 Steps to establish a local historic district", National Trust for Historic Places, 2/9/2016

Anderheggen, Shantia, “Four decades of local historic district designation: a case study of Newport, Rhode Island”, The Public Historian, v. 32, #4, 2010, pp. 16–32 (PDF available via Jstor) 

Los Angeles Historic Preservation Overlay Zone system 

National Park Service Certified State or Local Historic Districts, California State Parks

Weyeneth, Robert R., “The Architecture of racial segregation: the challenges of preserving the problematical past”, The Public Historian, v. 27, #4, 2005, pp. 11–44 (PDF available via Jstor)

Bennett, Alan, People, Faber & Faber, 2012 (A serious comedy about residents of a decaying country house versus the heritage industry)

Huyssen, Andreas, Present pasts : urban palimpsests and the politics of memory, Stanford University Press, BD181.7.H89 2003

Kaufman, Ned, Place, race, and story : essays on the past and future of historic preservation, Taylor & Francis. 2009 (Ebook available via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Liston, Jolie, et al., Pacific Island heritage : archaeology, identity and community, Australian National University Press, 2011 (Ebook available via ProQuest Ebook Central) 

Miller, Julia, A Layperson's guide to historic preservation law, 2000 (Ebook available via the National Trust for Historic Preservation)

Osborne, Robin, "Enter Politics," and "Cult, Politics & Imperialism," in Archaic & Classical Greek Art, Oxford University Press, N5630.O73 1998 

Solnit, Rebecca, "The Monument wars", Harpers, January 2017

Stipe, Robert E. (Editor), Richer heritage : historic preservation in the twenty-first century, University of North Carolina Press, 2003 (Ebook available via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Zhang, Yue, The Fragmented politics of urban preservation : Beijing, Chicago, and Paris, University of Minnesota Press, 2013 (Ebook available via ProQuest Ebook Central) 

Upton, Dell. “Confederate Monuments and Civic Values in the Wake of Charlottesville,” Society of Architectural Historians blog, September 13, 2017 

US National Park Service, Federal historic preservation laws: the official compilation of U.S. cultural heritage statutes, 2018 edition

Walkowitz, Daniel J. & Lisa Maya Knauer (Editors), Memory and the impact of political transformation in public space, Duke University Press, NA9345.M46 2004

Darlington, John, Fake heritage : why we rebuild monuments, Yale University Press, NA105.D27 2020 

Ekici, Didem, “The Surfaces of memory in Berlin: rebuilding the Schloß”, Journal of Architectural Education, v. 61, #2, 2007, pp. 25–34 (PDF available via Jstor)

Francaviglia, Richard, “History after Disney: the significance of ‘Imagineered’ Historical Places'”, The Public Historian, v. 17, #4, 1995, pp. 69–74 (PDF available via Jstor) 

Gentes, Andrew, “The Life, death and resurrection of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, Moscow”, History Workshop Journal, #46, 1998, pp. 63–95 (PDF available via Jstor)

Kelley, Stephen J., et al., “The Paradox and dilemma of reconstruction: a report from the 2018 College of Fellows Roundtable”, APT Bulletin: The Journal of Preservation Technology, v. 51, no. 1, 2020, pp. 49–55 (PDF available via Jstor)

Lounsbury, Carl R., “Beaux-Arts ideals and Colonial reality: the reconstruction of Williamsburg’s capitol, 1928-1934”, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, v. 49, #4, 1990, pp. 373–89 (PDF available via Jstor) 

"New Old Town", 99% Invisible, Episode 72, 2/5/2013 (Podcast on the reconstruction of Warsaw's historic center) 

Von Buttlar, Adrian, “Berlin’s Castle versus Palace: a proper past for Germany’s future?”, Future Anterior: Journal of Historic Preservation, History, Theory, and Criticism, v. 4, #1, 2007, pp. 12–29 (PDF available via Jstor)
 

Baker-Brown, Duncan & Graeme Brooker (Editors), The Pedagogies of re-use : the International School of Re-Construction, Taylor & Francis, 2024 (Ebook available via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Boettger, Till & Ulrike Knauer (Editors), Mono-Material : monolithic, homogeneous and circular construction, Birkhäuser, TD196.B85M65 2023

Craswell, Penny, Reclaimed : new homes from old materials, Thames & Hudson, TH4860.C73 2023

Crawford, Robert, Life cycle assessment in the built environment, CRC Press, 2011 (Ebook available via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Gorgolewski, Mark, Resource salvation : the architecture of reuse, John Wiley & Sons, 2017 (Ebook availablevia ProQuest Ebook Central)

Heisel, Felix, et al., Circular construction and circular economy, Birkhäuser, TH880.H45 2022 

Hillebrandt, Annette, et al., Manual of recycling : buildings as sources of materials, Detail Business Information GmbH, TD794.5.H5513 2019 

May, Eric & Mark Jones (Editors), Conservation science : heritage materials, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2007 (Ebook available via ProQuest Ebook Central) 

Olde Good Things architectural salvage, DTLA

Pasadena Architectural Salvage

Pauwels, Wim, Building and renovating with reclaimed materials, Beta-Plus, TH880.P389 2013

Stricker, Eva, et al. (Editors), Reuse in construction : a compendium of circular architecture, Park Books, NA2542.36.R487 2022 

California Office of Historic Preservation

California Preservation Foundation

Getty Conservation Institute, Incentives for the preservation and rehabilitation of historic homes in the city of Los Angeles : a guidebook for homeowners, NA111.I63 2004 

Howe, Kathryn Welch, The Los Angeles historic resource survey report : a framework for a citywide historic resource survey, Getty Conservation Institute, 2008

Los Angeles Conservancy 

Los Angeles Historic Preservation Overlay Zone system

Los Angeles Historic Resources Inventory

Los Angeles Office of Historic Resources, Designated Historic-Cultural Monuments 

Carroon, Jean, Sustainable preservation : greening existing buildings, John Wiley & Sons, 2010 (Ebook available via ProQuest Ebook Central) 

The Greenest building: quantifying the environmental value of building reuse, National Trust for Historic Preservation, 2011

Longstreth, Richard, Sustainability and historic preservation : toward a holistic view, University of Delaware Press, 2011 (Ebook available via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Malterre-Barthes, Charlotte, et al. (Editors), A moratorium on new construction, Sternberg Press, TD195.C54M35 2025
 

“Blue Plaques,” London’s historical markers, since 1866 

Boland, Beth M., & Fay Metcalf, “Teaching with historic places”, Organization of American Historians' Magazine of History, v. 7, #3, 1993, pp. 62–68 (PDF available via Jstor) 

Bruggeman, Seth C., “A Century of teaching with Pennsylvania’s historic places”, The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, v. 139, #1, 2015, pp. 3–21 (PDF available via Jstor)

Bruggemann, Seth C., Here, George Washington Was Born: memory, material culture, and the public history of a national monument, University of Georgia, 2008 (Ebook available via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Hayden, Dolores, The power of place: urban landscapes as public history, MIT Press, F869.L857H39 1997

ICOMOS, Charter on the interpretation and presentation of cultural heritage sites (2008) 

Kyvig, David, et al., Nearby history : exploring the past around you, 4th edition, Rowman & Littlefield, E180.5.N98 2019

McMurry, Sally, “Preserving agricultural history through land and buildings”, Agricultural History, v. 90, #1, 2016, pp. 4–21 (PDF available via Jstor)

Meringolo, Denise D., Museums, monuments, and national parks : toward a new genealogy of public history, University of Massachusetts Press, 2012 (Ebook available via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Merlino, Kathryn Rogers, “[Re]Evaluating significance: the environmental and cultural value in older and historic buildings”, The Public Historian, vol. 36, no. 3, 2014, pp. 70–85 (PDF available via Jstor) 

Rothman, Hal, Preserving different pasts: the American national monuments, University of Illinois Press, KF4390 .R68 1989 

Shaffer, Peter, Lettice and Lovage : a comedy, Samuel French, PR6037.H23L4 1990 (Serious farce about facts, fiction, and docents at historic buildings)

Damnatio memoriae, the systematic destruction of public depictions of a person after their death, found in ancient times through the present

DeSilvey, Caitlin, Curated decay : heritage beyond saving, University of Minnesota Press, CC175.D465 2017 (Also available as an ebook via ProQuest Ebook Central)

List of monuments and memorials removed during the George Floyd protests (Wikipedia) 

Perry, Andre M., “Removing racist monuments is about making history, not erasing it,” Brookings Institute, November 9, 2017 

"Ruins" resources, in the "Follies" Kappe Library Research Guide 

Ruskin, John, "The Lamp of memory", from The Seven lamps of architecture, 1849 ("Do not let us talk then of restoration. The thing is a Lie from beginning to end.")

Sandler, Daniela, Counterpreservation : architectural decay in Berlin since 1989, Cornell University Press, 2016 (Ebook available via ProQuest Ebook Central) 

"Society of Architectural Historians statement on the removal of monuments to the Confederacy from public spaces," Society of Architectural Historians, June 19, 2020

Thomsen, Russell & Eric Owen Moss,"Thinking the future of Auschwitz (November 3, 2014)" The SCI-Arc Channel