The papers in this volume were presented at the 7th International Architectural Finishes Research Conference held virtually in Tel Aviv in 2021. They provide ample evidence of the importance of research into contemporary and historic finishes in expanding our comprehension of the built environment. The case studies cover a wide geographical area and examine various finishes including mural paintings in a Roman palace, a late19th-century US penitentiary and a fire-damaged English church; tiles in 18th-century Portuguese interiors; the properties of latex paint; a linoleum-covered table; internal and external finishes of the houses of a Ukrainian settlement in Canada; building façades in Gdańsk; and the preservation of graffiti.
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Colour palettes and paint
The colour decorations of building façades in Gdańsk in the 16th-18th centuries
Anna Kriegseisen
A royal palette? On colors and pigments at the reception area of Herod's theater at Herodium
Lena Naama Sharabi
Latex paint: a mid-century modern miracle coating
Mary A. Jablonski
Buildings and their finish materials
A prison’s colorful past: revealing the paint history of a cell at Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia
Andrew Fearon and Liz Trumbull
Finish investigations of second and third phase Ukrainian Settlement vernacular wood homes at the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village, Alberta
Evan Oxland, Magdalena Hubmann, Konstanin von Gunten, Daniel S. Alessi and Alireza Farrokhi
Conservation of Gerrit Rietveld’s UNESCO Press Room: preservation and treatment of linoleum
Santje Pander, Jessica Hensel and Tijm Lanjouw
Behind Lisboa Pombalina: survival and change of domestic decorative finishes in a historic ensemble
Marta Raposo
Signatures and scribbles: preservation and conservation of graffiti as an architectural finish
Stephanie M. Hoagland
Finishes in religious buildings: considerations for conservation and restoration
Fire-damaged church: the conservation and presentation of wall painting in All Saints church, Fleet, Hampshire, UK
Ana Logreira and Polly Westlake
Three centuries of dilemmas on the preservation of synagogue wall inscriptions
Tamar Shadmi
Catholic murals in Protestant churches of Estonia: to see or not to see?
Anneli Randla and Hilkka Hiiop
Index
