{"id":46229,"date":"2026-03-31T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=46229"},"modified":"2026-03-30T13:42:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T12:42:06","slug":"ihbcs-context-186-under-the-spotlight-ihbcs-accessible-cpd-for-conservation-professionals-with-bob-kindreds-periodically-bite-sized-from-the-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=46229","title":{"rendered":"IHBC\u2019s Context 186 under the spotlight: IHBC\u2019s accessible CPD for Conservation Professionals, with Bob Kindred\u2019s \u2018Periodically\u2019\u2026 bite-sized & from the best"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Bob Kindred\u2019s \u2018Periodically\u2019, in IHBC\u2019s new issue of its members\u2019 journal Context<\/em><\/a> \u2013 No. 186<\/a>, themed on Infrastructure & Industry \u2013 offers \u2018bite sized\u2019 summaries from the best of current conservation and heritage periodicals and handbooks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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The Historic Environment<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another wide-ranging, 170-page issue of The Historic Environment: policy and practice (Vol 16, No 2, 2025), of particular interest is a paper by Xiaohan Lu of the Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow School of Art. Lu focuses on group value in the adaptive reuse of historic buildings, using case studies from the Merchant City, Glasgow. He highlights an issue regarding some properties in the Merchant City not qualifying for listed status in the past but then being protected shortly after they had been restored. This somewhat controversial phenomenon is seen as reflecting tensions inherent in legislation on the one hand with appropriate and sympathetic rehabilitation on the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Also from Turkey, Hatice Ayseg\u00fcl Demir and H\u00fclya Y\u00fcceer of the department of conservation and restoration of cultural heritage at Izmir Institute of Technology have examined \u2018New buildings in historic settings: revisiting Renzo Piano\u2019s design approach\u2019. This is a controversial issue involving a \u2018starchitect\u2019. The authors outline their review of the designs inserted into the historic environment to provide preliminary insights into design strategies. These have been adopted for recently completed Renzo Piano schemes for Paris, Valetta, Athens, Beirut and Istanbul, six of which are within the settings of Unesco world heritage sites. A seventh, set within a historic site in Beirut, is described individually to trace the architect\u2019s design approach. Seven categories have been identified: the use of an existing square, the scale, form, view creation, transparency preferences, design openings and the colour choices that the authors consider Piano has found compatible with their historic settings. They suggest that these factors could form the basis for future policy guidelines regarding new buildings in historic urban settings, and they set these out in two tabular appendices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Construction History<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hannah Ka\u0161par contributes a paper in Construction History: the International Journal of the Construction History Society (Vol 40, No 1, 2025). Ka\u0161par\u2019s recent PhD at the University of Leeds focused on the Scottish neoclassical architects Robert and James Adam, exploring their subcontracting networks and supervision of building works. Her paper \u2018From Quarry to Country House: Thomas Carter and the eighteenth-century Portland stone trade\u2019 examines the trade networks and business practices of Thomas Carter the younger (c1720\u201395), a prosperous stonemason and merchant who managed a busy London workshop that specialised in chimney pieces, funeral monuments and other forms of architectural sculpture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A paper by Tom F Peters of Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, deals with Louis-Joseph Vicat\u2019s publications. Vicat\u2019s role in the understanding of the hydraulic behaviour of cement is well known. His initial study of 1818 is recognised as an important step in the development of modern concrete and a seminal study in the development of the field of material science. The balance between science and empiricism facilitated the 19th-century pre-eminence of concrete construction in France. This can be traced to a hitherto unrecognised \u2018virtual\u2019 treatise reconstructed from Vicat\u2019s 12 articles published between 1834 and 1846, combined with two rare volumes of statistics in 1839 and 1853. These, when taken together, show the scientific and statistical aspects of Vicat\u2019s life, and how he combined analytical and empirical approaches to material study, providing a more complete picture of his role in the development of modern material science\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mills News\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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