The purpose of this thesis is to study how thatched roofs in Sweden and Japan have changed their characters over the time from a roof for residence to a museum object and how they are represented at open-air museums today ...

The goal of this study is to examine the relevance of the concept artistic value in Swedish court cases that concern institutions in preservation of the built environment in Sweden. This thesis analyses the concept of ...

The purpose of this study is to do a garden-historical survey of the residential gardens of the swedish million program to complement the Swedish garden history. They are in both a time and knowledge gap where it is neither ...

Svend Bögh-Andersen was a Danish architect who held the position as city architect in the town Laholm in Halland, south Sweden. Along with many other Danish architects he relocated to Sweden due to a lack of available ...

It often occurs that the spirit regarding the future as a conservator is rather pessimistic. How come that there are so few employed conservators, when the need for conservation obviously is big? What kind of changes is ...

This master thesis examines managements plans for 11 world heritage sites and how the outstanding universal values are handled in the plans. The problem is to succeed to preserve these values and also a challenge. In the ...

This essay concerns the preservation of urban private gardens, city-gardens. These gardens have played an important part in our cities history for centuries. They represent a cultural heritage created and sustained by ...

In this thesis I have asked the question how the textile conservation have changed from the late 19th century to the practice conservators pursue today. Textile conservation has during these 140 years transformed from a ...

This work deals with style comparison between Swedish and Russian pre-war modernism in architecture, as well as architectural examples and problems of modernist heritage treatment in both countries. Method of study is ...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of the electricity grid on the landscape in Sweden. The study analyses the electricity grid in the landscape and its cultural heritage aspects. The data for this ...