The Unitarian Fortified Church in Dârjiu is one of the best known ecclesiastical historic buildings in Transylvania. The church was protected by a defensive wall with corner bastions and a tower, moreover there is also a defensive level on the church (with loopholes and pitch pouring slots, built on buttresses and corbels). These were built following the havoc from the beginning of the 17th century based on the researchers various considerations. We sampled the wooden elements and structures of the building ensemble on several occasions between 2006 and 2013 in order to perform their dendrochronological analysis and determine the construction or reconstruction period of the analysed wooden structures and building elements. The most important result of the research is that the current roof structure of the church – including the wooden structure of the defensive level – was built at the turn of the 15th and 16th centuries and still stands with its subsequent additions. Thus the defensive level of the Church in Dârjiu is not a late copy of the similar historic buildings in the Saxon Land but their contemporary edifice. Regarding the tower, we did not find any elements from the construction period, the dated wooden elements can be related to the repairs from the beginning of the 17th century. The defensive walls and the corner bastions were also built at the beginning of the 17th century according to the analysis of the wood samples. Keywords: dendrochronology, historic roof structure, dating, Fortified Church in Dârjiu

The article presents several landmarks from the history of buildings and landscape designs of the park belonging to the Béldy Ladislau Manor House in Budila (Braşov County), a 19th century park, with traces of design in a landscape style, listed on the 2004 and 2010’s Lists of Historic Buildings. The main element of the landscape design, still recognizable by its imprint, was the artificial lake, with islands. The article describes the main built and landscape design elements of the ensemble, the relationships established between them and with the settlement and surrounding landscape, as they were observed by the author in the summer of 2009, in an attempt to outline a short summary of the current situation of the landscape elements. Keywords: historical garden, rural residence, landscape design, 19th century

The present study presents the partial results of an eight year long research. The purpose of the research is the survey of the Transylvanian manor gardens and their analysis from the point of view of landscape history, and the compilation of a most comprehensive register of the Transylvanian manor gardens. The research is conducted by the Department of Garden and Open Space Design within the Corvinus University of Budapest, and many other departments, experts and students participate in the work. The partial results presented in this study ensue from the examination of the visual connections found in 93 manor gardens, and they confirm the landscape design role of sights. These results confirm the fact that visual connections, as deliberate means of landscape design, were applied in Transylvanian landscape gardens as well in numerous places, and through their application a certain landscape fragment was determined for several decades or even centuries. Keywords: Garden history, landscape architecture, visual connections, Transylvanian manor gardens, built heritage protection

Any intervention on a historical building should be made very carefully. In the case of a structural intervention, besides the general demands concerning the structural reliability (resistance and stability, serviceability, durability and maintenance), the rehabilitation process has to respond to some specific requirements regarding authenticity in accordance with the international and national regulation in terms. The study analyzes the methods of strengthening historic structures taking into account the degree of preserving structural authenticity. It pays a special attention to the masonry structures. Strengthening methods mostly listed in the author’s works illustrate the cases. The paper puts into discussion the cases and conditions of using correctly reinforced concrete as strengthening material for historic structures. Keywords: historic structures, strengthening, masonry vaults, authenticity, compatibility