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Last week I went to the CIPA Her­it­age Doc­u­ment­a­tion con­fer­ence in Ávil­a, Spain. It was a jovi­al gath­er­ing of the ICOMOS and is­prs baby, where many par­ti­cipants shared ad­vances in re­cord­ing and doc­u­ment­ing cul­tur­al her­it­age...

Mor­tars, Renders and Plasters is an ex­tens­ive read lead­ing through ma­ter­i­als and his­tory of use, de­teri­or­a­tion and dam­age, as­sess­ment, treat­ment and re­pair, and end­ing with care and main­ten­ance. Since it seems that the au­thors aimed for a com­pre­hens­ive study, read­ers will also find very in­triguing in­tro­duct­ory in­form­a­tion on nat­ur­al ce­ment­s, floors and ru­ins in the chapter on spe­cial top­ic­s. This book ed­ited by Al­is­on Henry and John Stew­art...