Personal statement
Cristina is the Director of the MSc in Architectural Design for the Conservation of Built Heritage and Lecturer in Architectural Heritage, Conservation and Community Identity. After graduating at the School of Architecture of the Technical University of Madrid (ETSAM), she spent three years in Rome with a scholarship from the Italian Government to specialise in architectural conservation at the University of Rome "La Sapienza". Her research interests evolve mainly around architectural conservation and new design in historic buildings and sites. She finds important to integrate disciplines such as architectural history and theory, conservation theory, sustainability, urban regeneration, construction history, materials technology, archaeology and philosophy of culture in order to be able to research, understand, interpret, design and transmit the values and meaning of a historic building effectively to students and the wider society.
Research interests
- Complex architectural conservation projects
- New design in historic cities, buildings, monuments and archaeological
areas
- Reuse of historic buildings and monuments
- Conservation theory
- Architectural history and the transformation of buildings
- Tendencies and restoration in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Scottish architecture
- Methods, strategies and instruments used by architects over the centuries in the transformation of a place.
- Conservation, Sustainable design and construction.
- Environmental design, energy and historic buildings
- Historic Construction technologies and systems
- Historic buildings, urban infrastructure and context
- Historic cities, buildings, monuments and local identity
- The Scottish Parliament building and the development of architecture and urban design in Scotland
- People, history, memory and historic buildings
- Architecture and archaeology
Professional activities
- External Assessor of PhD Thesis
- Examiner
- 2018
- Design Well on the Old: Architectural Conservation as a Solution for the Environmental, Social and Economic Challenges of the 21st Century
- Speaker
- 22/11/2017
- External Examiner in the University of Portsmouth
- Examiner
- 2017
- Scotland Build 2016
- Speaker
- 24/11/2016
- Scottish Catholic Architecture and Material Culture
- Organiser
- 29/10/2016
- Question of Science
- Participant
- 12/10/2016
more professional activities
Projects
- Exploring the use of Image Processing to Survey and Quantitatively Assess Historic Buildings
- Gonzalez-Longo, Cristina (Principal Investigator) Marshall, Stephen (Co-investigator) Murray, Paul (Co-investigator)
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- Period 01-Jun-2015 - 01-Oct-2015
- Building skills for conserving 17th-18th centuries Scottish built heritage: structures
- Gonzalez-Longo, Cristina (Principal Investigator) Serafini, Anna (Post Grad Student)
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- Period 01-Oct-2013 - 30-Sep-2016
- Building skills for conserving 17th-18th centuries Scottish built heritage: Materials and Techniques
- Gonzalez-Longo, Cristina (Principal Investigator) Gonzalez Manich, Clara (Post Grad Student)
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- Period 01-Oct-2014 - 30-Sep-2017
- Building skills for conserving 17th-18th centuries Scottish built heritage: Structures
- Gonzalez-Longo, Cristina (Principal Investigator)
- Period 01-Oct-2013 - 30-Sep-2016
- Building skills for conserving 17th-18th centuries Scottish built heritage: Materials and Techniques
- Gonzalez-Longo, Cristina (Principal Investigator)
- Period 01-Oct-2013 - 01-Oct-2017
more projects
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James Weir Building
James Weir Building
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