The article contains information about the mediaeval stone churches located in the area of Hunedoara County, historic buildings decorated with mural paintings realised in a fresco technique during the 14^th and 15^th centuries. The historic buildings are investigated from historical, iconographic, artistic, technical, and methodological point of view. The degradation factors and their effect upon these places of worship are also presented, as well as their state of conservation, but also intervention and re-enhancement proposals. 

Keywords: history, built heritage, mural painting, iconographic programme, constituent materials, degradation factors, preservation, preventive preservation, conservation

The study for the protection of Băţanii Mari village scape presented in this paper was the topic of my thesis supervised by Mr. Árpád FURU, written within the framework of the Postgraduate Studies on Built Heritage Conservation, organised by the Transilvania Trust Foundation and the Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca. Băţanii Mari Village has 611 street numbers. During the settlement’s survey I gathered data on 576 households, 547 houses, 354 barns, 75 stables, 78 barns with cart sheds, 84 summer kitchens, thus on a total of 1138 constructions. I also managed to identify 138 porches, 45 gates with brick gateposts, 36 gates with stone gateposts, 20 roofed gates with brick gateposts, 1 stone bench, 6 brick benches, and 49 wooden benches. 

Keywords: Băţanii Mari, local history, village scape protection, street system, dwelling, summer kitchen, barn, shed, stable, gatepost, roof tile

The paper entitled “Conservation and Enhancement of the Nicolae Minovici Museum in Bucharest and the Revitalisation of the Historical Enclosure” was presented in June 2014, during the Postgraduate Course on Historic Building Conservation organised by the Babeş-Bolyai University, Faculty of History and Philosophy and the Transilvania Trust Foundation. The paper’s topic is the conservation proposal of a listed historical building, constructed at the beginning of the 20^th century in the northern area of the capital. The paper analyses, based on archival photos, the building’s history, it describes its conservation state, as well as the causes of degradation, and it proposes an intervention concept. 

Keywords: folk art museum, historical park, conservation, faux stone, Neo-Romanian style

The article presents the thesis entitled “The Rehabilitation and Reconversion as Exhibition Spaces for the Mureş County Museum of a B Category Historic Building (code: MS-II-m-B-15518) – The Former Workers’ Housing of the Szekely and Retty Furniture Factory,” defended in July 2014, in front of the examination committee for the finals of the Postgraduate Course in Historic Building Conservation. The studied building is part of the cultural and industrial heritage of Târgu Mureş, being listed as a historic building of local importance. At present it is abandoned, highly degraded, and in danger of collapse. The paper is meant to send a distress signal to draw the specialists’ attention (and not only) towards a forgotten architectural object, establishing at the same time a basis for a conservation design. The article presents the historic building as part of the cultural/industrial heritage, its present condition, and the general conservation concept. 

Keywords: workers’ housing, Szekely and Retty furniture factory, heritage of the 20^th century, historic building, rehabilitation, reconversion, thesis, Târgu Mureş, industrial heritage

The article presents several landmarks in the history of the construction and landscape design of the Naláczi-Fáy manor house park in Nălaţvad (Hunedoara County). Created in the 19^th century along with the entire ensemble, the manor house park, listed in the 2004, respectively 2010 Historic Buildings Lists, presents the traces of a former landscaped style design, but at present has gone extremely wild. The article describes the main built and landscaped elements, the relationships between them, as well as their relationship with the settlement and surrounding landscape, as they were observed by the author in the summer of 2010, in an attempt to sketch a brief inventory of the landscape design at present. 

Keywords: residential historical garden, landscape garden style, 19^th century

The secrets of the 800-year-old crumbled tower are forever locked in time, but the countless, occasionally uncannily similar analogies reveal something of its identity. Although the view of the tower, full of various traces and fissures, provides an interesting sight already in itself, it is rather its former inherent life and meaning that can be considered to be really exciting. Architect Károly BUGÁRMÉSZÁROS deserves special thanks for his many observations, but most of all for the concept. The Latin translation and the evocation of the period by historian Norbert C. TÓTH constituted a cornerstone for my research, as well as the risky work of rope access specialist Levente OLÁH. In this article, I intended to focus on the discoveries, previously unknown in scholarly literature, as well as on the tower’s analogies referring to its exterior aspect, its furnishing, and objects of use. 

Keywords: keep, Middle Ages, Ladislaus the Cuman, Cheresig, ruin, reconstruction, analogy, furnishing, function, context, battlement, wall walk, windlass hoist, overall aspect, authentic

The article presents the dendrochronological researches conducted between 2010 and 2013 at the tower and the choir roof structure of the Calvinist Church in Târgu Mureş. Corroborated with already known historical data, the information obtained throughout the analysis helps clarifying the chronology of construction and subsequent repairs implemented on the building. Furthermore, the article also presents the hypothetical reconstruction of the rafters in the choir’s roof structure, dated to the end of the 15^th century, contributing to our knowledge about this historical period. 

Keywords: Târgu Mureş, fortified church, Franciscan church, dendrochronology, historic roof structure, tower, dating