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 This book relates the traditional architecture - local, pre-industrial, non-monumental, and often neglected - that imprints our Mediterranean areas. In this immense common territory, a variety of multifaceted identities produced a great diversity of architectural forms and techniques of construction: born in the Mediterranean cradle, they established and developed according to their particular geological, topological, climatic, economic, and social environments... |
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 (Techniques and use of lime, available only in French)
Lime, the most traditional and oldest building binding agent, deserves to be rediscovered. From the most prestigious edifice to the simplest house, craftsmen and masons used it as one of the basics elements of construction. Modern building techniques have forgotten it, breaking a time-honored tradition of transmission of skills tied to its use. Its rediscovery involves a telling of its history, of its fabrication and its properties, of the use of mortars, renders, stucco and paints that put it to use. |
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