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Reconstruction of heritage areas in Chile (2025)
Book Chapter
Devilat, B. (2025). Reconstruction of heritage areas in Chile. In Digital Records, Heritage Conservation and Post-earthquake Re-construction in Chile (109-140). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003172147-5

In this chapter, I present three case studies in Chile used as a laboratory to study the aspects covered previously since they are at continuous risk of destruction due to earthquakes. Focusing on the earthquakes of 2005 and 2010, I aim to discover w... Read More about Reconstruction of heritage areas in Chile.

The record (2025)
Book Chapter
Devilat, B. (2025). The record. In Digital Records, Heritage Conservation and Post-earthquake Re-construction in Chile (141-182). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003172147-6

In previous chapters, I have discussed the role of the record for replication in architecture, its accuracy and its importance in the face of disasters. I then focused on Chile, presenting the heritage areas before and during their latest reconstruct... Read More about The record.

Conclusions (2025)
Book Chapter
Devilat, B. (2025). Conclusions. In Digital Records, Heritage Conservation and Post-earthquake Re-construction in Chile (227-238). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003172147-8

This chapter identifies the contributions of this book in methodological terms, emphasising the implications of geometrically accurate recording technologies for the understanding of reconstruction of built heritage at risk. Reconstruction as a repli... Read More about Conclusions.

Recording heritage buildings (2025)
Book Chapter
Devilat, B. (2025). Recording heritage buildings. In Digital Records, Heritage Conservation and Post-earthquake Re-construction in Chile (52-80). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003172147-3

Chapter 2 explores architectural representation and how existing buildings have been recorded, as a historical analysis. From the first attempts to document historical buildings to a review of recording techniques until the current digitalisation sta... Read More about Recording heritage buildings.

Record and reconstruction in the face of destruction (2025)
Book Chapter
Devilat, B. (2025). Record and reconstruction in the face of destruction. In Digital Records, Heritage Conservation and Post-earthquake Re-construction in Chile (81-108). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003172147-4

In this chapter, disasters are introduced as agents of built heritage change. It looks at previous reconstruction efforts and how the documents informed them – especially rebuilding as replica. It establishes the link between the record and rebuildin... Read More about Record and reconstruction in the face of destruction.

Concatenated Thresholds: Rehabilitation of an 18th Century House for a Family of Musicians in Seville, Spain (2025)
Journal Article
Gentil-Fernandez, M., Barrera-Altemir, M., & Caro-Dominguez, J. (in press). Concatenated Thresholds: Rehabilitation of an 18th Century House for a Family of Musicians in Seville, Spain. Built Heritage,

Accomplished in 2018, the refurbishment of an 18th-century house, which is located in the historic centre of Seville (Spain), constitutes a statement of heritage reactivation as a solid platform for keeping historic centres alive. Rehabilitated by Ba... Read More about Concatenated Thresholds: Rehabilitation of an 18th Century House for a Family of Musicians in Seville, Spain.

3D Laser Scanning representation in Architecture. The place of the record (2025)
Journal Article
Devilat, B., & Andres Lanuza, F. (2025). 3D Laser Scanning representation in Architecture. The place of the record. AIS - Architecture Image Studies, 6(2), 8-41. https://doi.org/10.48619/AIS.V6I2.1176

In Architecture, representing the context is for both a technical need and an understanding process for architectural discipline. The creation of drawings is not only to measure and represent reality to intervene in it but also to analyse it in a bro... Read More about 3D Laser Scanning representation in Architecture. The place of the record.

Canal-orientated urban waterfront regeneration based on the concept of everyday heritage: a case study in Suzhou, China (2025)
Journal Article
Shao, Z., & Tang, Y. (2025). Canal-orientated urban waterfront regeneration based on the concept of everyday heritage: a case study in Suzhou, China. Architecture_MPS, 30(1), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.amps.2025v30i1.002

This article selects as a case study the Suzhou Canal, one of the most important sections of the Beijing–Hangzhou Grand Canal. It investigates how the Suzhou Canal is used as a driving factor to achieve canal-orientated urban waterfront regeneration... Read More about Canal-orientated urban waterfront regeneration based on the concept of everyday heritage: a case study in Suzhou, China.

Museum as Object: From Postcard to Post (2024)
Journal Article
Hale, J., Hanks, L., & Simpson, C. (2024). Museum as Object: From Postcard to Post. DEPARCH Journal of Design, Planning and Aesthetics Research, 3(2), 139-160. https://doi.org/10.55755/DepArch.2024.31

Whether it’s through sharing picture postcards or visitor-produced photographs of museums on social media, these processes of image sharing, often dismissed as trivial, are acts which create and sustain relationships between the visitor, museum, and... Read More about Museum as Object: From Postcard to Post.

Advanced documentation technologies for people-centred preparedness and re-construction in Bela, India (2024)
Journal Article
Devilat, B. M., Lanuza, F., Mane, M., & Pithawalla, Z. (2024). Advanced documentation technologies for people-centred preparedness and re-construction in Bela, India. Disaster Prevention and Management, 33(5), 480-501. https://doi.org/10.1108/dpm-12-2023-0316

Purpose: Despite the recurrence of earthquakes, responses are usually triggered afterwards, lacking mitigation strategies to diminish risks. Damaged dwellings cannot be immediately reinforced to continue inhabitation, generating disruption. Repairs a... Read More about Advanced documentation technologies for people-centred preparedness and re-construction in Bela, India.

Archive and site: The ghost of Peter Eisenman's 1978 Cannaregio Ovest project in Venice (2024)
Journal Article
Lanuza, F. (2024). Archive and site: The ghost of Peter Eisenman's 1978 Cannaregio Ovest project in Venice. ARENA Journal of Architectural Research, 9(1), Article 2. https://doi.org/10.55588/ajar.389

In this paper, I discuss Peter Eisenman’s unbuilt proposal for the Cannaregio Ovest district in Venice, and develop a speculative reading linking the project’s archive and the site. I account for different absences involved to visually represent the... Read More about Archive and site: The ghost of Peter Eisenman's 1978 Cannaregio Ovest project in Venice.

Advanced documentation technologies for a people-centred preparedness and re-construction in Bela, India (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Devilat, B., Lanuza, F., Mane, M., & Pithawalla, Z. (2023, June). Advanced documentation technologies for a people-centred preparedness and re-construction in Bela, India. Presented at i-Rec conference 2023, Sendai, Japan

Despite the recurrence of earthquakes, responses are usually triggered afterwards, lacking mitigation strategies to diminish risks. Damaged dwellings cannot be immediately reinforced to continue inhabitation, generating disruption. Repairs are usuall... Read More about Advanced documentation technologies for a people-centred preparedness and re-construction in Bela, India.

Reconstruction of housing after the 2010 earthquake in Chile. Challenges and Lessons from the Heritage Reconstruction Programme (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
DEVILAT, B. (2023, June). Reconstruction of housing after the 2010 earthquake in Chile. Challenges and Lessons from the Heritage Reconstruction Programme. Presented at i-Rec Conference 2023: Tensions Between Tradition and Innovation in Disaster Risk Reduction, Climate Action, and Reconstruction: Reflecting on Tohoku’s Recovery Twelve Years Later, Sendai, Japan

Unbinding architectural imagination: Wang Shu’s textual bricolage in theoretical writing and design (2022)
Journal Article
Jin, X., & Hale, J. (2022). Unbinding architectural imagination: Wang Shu’s textual bricolage in theoretical writing and design. Journal of Architecture, 27(7-8), 1012-1033. https://doi.org/10.1080/13602365.2022.2153377

Architectural writing norms have been a subject of constant debate in recent decades. Architectural poststructuralists have often conceptualised writing as a form of virtual construction in the medium of words. Recent scholarship relating to innovati... Read More about Unbinding architectural imagination: Wang Shu’s textual bricolage in theoretical writing and design.

Issue 1. Introducing technology to break the unsustainable cycle of building replacement after earthquakes: towards a culture of reuse and risk mitigation (2022)
Book Chapter
Devilat, B., Gamal Abdelmonem, M., Lanuz, F., Desai, J., Mane, M., Pithawalla, Z., Jigyasu, R., Sen, S., Singh, A., & Kanji, R. (2022). Issue 1. Introducing technology to break the unsustainable cycle of building replacement after earthquakes: towards a culture of reuse and risk mitigation. In F. Giliberto, & R. Jackson (Eds.), Cultural heritage in the context of disasters and climate change: Insights from the DCMS-AHRC Cultural Heritage and Climate Change Cohort (26-31). University of Leeds and University of Edinburgh

Room to breathe: Using adaptive architecture to examine the relationship between alexithymia and interoception (2021)
Journal Article
Abdulhamid, H., Jäger, N., Schnädelbach, H., & Smith, A. D. (2022). Room to breathe: Using adaptive architecture to examine the relationship between alexithymia and interoception. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 153, Article 110708. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychores.2021.110708

Objective: Individuals with alexithymia experience difficulties interpreting emotional states in self and others, which has been associated with interoceptive impairment. Current theories are primarily based on subjective and conscious measures of in... Read More about Room to breathe: Using adaptive architecture to examine the relationship between alexithymia and interoception.

How do buildings talk? Embodied experience in the Rolex Learning Centre (2021)
Journal Article
Yang, J., Hale, J., & Blackman, T. (2021). How do buildings talk? Embodied experience in the Rolex Learning Centre. arq: Architectural Research Quarterly, 25(1), 83-92. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1359135521000129

A 3D film by Wim Wenders of the Rolex Learning Centre provides a deeper phenomenological reading of SANAA’s distinctively minimalist architecture.

The Venice Architecture Biennale in 2010, curated by Japanese architect Kazuyo Sejima, co-founder o... Read More about How do buildings talk? Embodied experience in the Rolex Learning Centre.

中小学校园公共空间自然可视率量化研究 (2019)
Journal Article
Liu, F., Hu, Z., Tang, Y., & Xie, J. (2019). 中小学校园公共空间自然可视率量化研究. Kexue Jishu yu Gongcheng, 19(33), 342-349

In order to solve the problem that the traditional method is very complex in safety assessment of primary and secondary school, which cannot get an objective result quickly. The method of calculating the natural visibility ratio within the students'... Read More about 中小学校园公共空间自然可视率量化研究.

Energy performance of film membranes in the retrofitting of Architectural Heritage: an Italian case study (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
De Vita, M., D'Antonio, R., Beccarelli, P., & De Berardinis, P. (2019, June). Energy performance of film membranes in the retrofitting of Architectural Heritage: an Italian case study. Presented at 6th International TensiNet Symposium Softening the Habitats: Sustainable Innovations in Minimal Mass Structures and Lightweight Architectures, Milan, Italy

During the last decades, the development of architectural textiles led to significant innovations in the building industry. Designers, producers and researchers have invested in the technical development of textile envelopes with the aim of improving... Read More about Energy performance of film membranes in the retrofitting of Architectural Heritage: an Italian case study.