This course consisted of a series of lectures (general principles of building mapping, analysis of various structural systems, study of construction details and materials, building pathology and diagnosis, intervention methods and techniques, restoration examples) and an one-week field exercise at the archaeological post-byzantine site of Mystras. The exercise for each student team was to measure a particular building using conventional methods (tape measure, french measure etc.) or digital ones (auto level TOPCON AT-B4 24X) and produce a hardcopy with all the results, as well as information about the building’s orinigal form, its construction phaces, its use through time, its materials and architecture, its pathology and static vulnerability and, finally, suggest which should be the immediate actions to insure its stability and make a complete restoration proposal.
