This work deals with the form bathrooms have taken in time and aims at exploring whether these can be regarded as cultural significant, but also how the estate-owner‘s knowledge is embodied. The work is limited to the ...

This thesis is an attempt to investigate the possibilities of protecting historic neon signs as heritage with some of the two Swedish laws that protect the built heritage. Kulturmiljölagen (SFS 1988:950) and Plan- och ...

The purpose of this study is to investigate inner yard facades on buildings erected by the turn of the century and try to understand its roll as a cultural heritage. The study will there after find out how it should be ...

This study is about Rosenlund, an area of the central Gothenburg city, that holds a rich history. The area is mainly fameous for the old bastion on site, as well as the fish trade located in the area since the early 19:th ...

The purpose of this study is to broaden the understanding of the garden´s significance for the overall picture of the farm. The aim is to create a valuation model especially designed for a historical garden on the ...

The aim of this thesis is to suggest a way of restoring an old inn called Gästgiveriet Gårdsten, intended to be relocated for preservation, by exploring the concept of heritage and the different meanings it has today and ...

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 ...

Exhibiting and managing religious objects in museums presents a challenge due to their religious and sacred context, which may or may not be taken into account. When an object enters into a museum, it is stripped of its ...

Conservation, as a way of describing and writing new history has been criticized the past ten years for not including gender, ethnicity and class as important factors when a cultural heritage is defined and preserved. ...

This essay examines how old houses verbalized and visualized in printed media. The study are limited to examining at‐home‐reports in two Swedish journals, Sköna Hem and Gård och Torp at the period from 1979 – 2011. Al ...