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One of the restoration important tasks is to preserve the original monumental art works on the historic building's facades. The stylistics of buildings in the Central Ukraine cities in the second half of the 19th - early 20th centuries were analyzed and it was proved that ceramic decor was used to a rather limited extent, mainly in the form of decorative inserts and cornice strips of one color. Polychrome majolica panels also did not become widespread. The exception is the direction of Ukrainian national romanticism, which can be called "ceramic Art Nouveau" and most vividly embodied in the Poltava Provincial Zemstvo building and the memorial chapel in Poltava. Original examples of Secession period monumental art have been preserved on the buildings' facades in Cracow and Lodz. A common technique is the combination of typical Art Nouveau forms with rich sculptural and ornamental decorations. In many cases there is Viennese Secession direct influence, especially when the facade decoration involved masters from Vienna. The research scientific novelty lies in determining the features of ceramic decor on the facades, in substantiating the uniqueness of Ukrainian national romanticism as a phenomenon, in covering the tried and tested technologies of restoration and conservation of ceramic decor. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The relevance of research and preservation of Chinese historical gardens with small forms is due to several factors. The unique heritage of Chinese landscape design, represented by the gardens of Suzhou, is today listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is an international tourist attraction. It is a source of research on traditional Chinese landscape design techniques based on the principles of Feng Shui, Taoism, Buddhism and Confucian doctrines. All Chinese gardens had been developed with the use of established rules and techniques, among which the authors have described eight main ones that are present in the gardens of Suzhou. The scientific novelty of the research consists in analyzing and concretizing a list of the main techniques of traditional Chinese landscape design and argumentation of the revealed techniques with specific examples of gazebos in the gardens of Suzhou. The methods of figurative expressiveness of pavilions in different regions of China are systematized. Comparison of historical and modern Chinese pavilions demonstrated the narrowing of figurative means, the use of a narrow range of historical prototypes (mainly in the east and southeast), in which the national features of the small-scale architecture are vividly pronounced. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the deterioration of historical wooden buildings by microorganisms. The subject was presented on the example of a historical wooden villa in the Polish health resort of Rabka-Zdrój. The ‘Wawel’ Villa is a historical building which, due to its material value, is under strict conservation. During its restoration process, due to its unsatisfactory technical condition, microbiological testing of its wooden substance was performed. It was aimed at assessing the degree of the wood’s microbiological contamination and its suitability in the process of the building’s restoration. The findings were confronted with current potential for wood disinfection so as to preserve it as one of the key values of the building. They can be used in the process of restoring historical wooden architectural heritage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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