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Tangible Cultural Heritage
Composed of the physical manifestations of culture produced, maintained, and transmitted within a society. Imbued with cultural significance. Tangible cultural heritage may refer to: places of human habitation – including buildings, villages, towns and cities, structures documents and archives, works of art, handicrafts, musical instruments, furniture, clothing, items of personal decoration; religious, ritual, and funerary objects; tools and mechanical equipment; and industrial systems. >Cultural heritage
Thermofitting
Installing energy-saving materials and devices in existing buildings in order to minimise heat losses and reduce energy consumption (roughly equivalent to "retrofitting for energy conservation").
Tentative list
Each country that is a Inventory elaborated by each State Party to the UNESCO World Heritage Convention is requested to draw up a list, naming with the cultural and natural sites it intends to nominate for inclusion in the World Heritage List in the next five to ten years. This ‘inventory’ is known as the Tentative List and provides a forecast of the properties that a State Party may decide to submit for inscription may be updated at any time. It is an important step since the World Heritage Committee cannot consider a nomination for inscription on the World Heritage List unless the property has already been included on the State Party's Tentative List.
The Vienna Secession (Secession)
Art style from the end of the 19th century, closely related to Art Nouveau, that was formed in 1897 by a group of Austrian painters, graphic artists, sculptors and architects, including Josef Hoffman, Koloman Moser, Otto Wagner, and Gustav Klimt in Slovene architecture also Josef Plečnik. Before mentioned artists resigned from the Association of Austrian Artists in protest against its support for more traditional artistic styles.
Tradition
Term is based on the Latin word 'traditio' (to interfere). Traditions are thinking, principles, values, skills, customs, and beliefs and ways of acting that people in a particular society that has have been handed down from one generation to the next in a particular society in technical and sociological terms, where all these elements are intervolving in the common operations terms. Oral traditions are an example of traditions that remain an essential part of human society today. These traditions include stories such as the legends and myths that have been passed down over the years to generations. Traditions could also include music and its styles as well as poetry and the different styles of the art. Traditions refer to the way of a particular group of people does things and the explanation behind it.
Traditional knowledge
Accumulated knowledge and understanding of the human place in relation to the universe. This encompasses spiritual relationships, relationships with the natural environment and the use of natural resources, relationships between people, and is reflected in language, social organisations, values, institutions, and laws.
Traditional building trades
Loosely defined categorization of building trades who actively practise their craft in respect of historic preservation, heritage conservation, or the conserving and maintenance of the existing built environment. Though traditional trade practitioners may at times be involved in new construction, the emphasis of the categorization is toward work on existing structures, regardless of their age or their historic value, with a specific interest in replication or conservation of the original results and craft techniques. They commonly include masonry, timber framing, traditional roofing, upholstery, carpentry, and joinery, sometimes plumbing, plasterwork, painting, blacksmithing, and ornamental metal working (Bronze and brass) etc.
Treatment
All direct interventions carried out on the cultural property with the aim of retarding further deterioration or aiding in the interpretation of the cultural property. A treatment may range from minimal stabilisation to extensive restoration or reconstruction. The deliberate alteration of the chemical and/or physical aspects of cultural property, aimed primarily at prolonging its existence. Treatment may consist of stabilisation and/or restoration.
Typology
Theoretical system of the same or alike elements, which correspond in a common acting as technical or visual characteristics of a detail or the whole unit. Is the study of types or the systematic classification of the types of something according to their common characteristics. Typology is the act of finding, counting and classification facts with the help of eyes, with other senses, and through logic systems of classification according to general type. It means study of, or analysis or classification based on types or categories.
Tudor architectural style (1485 – 1603)
Final development of mediaeval architecture in England, and also the tentative introduction of Renaissance architecture. In the much more slow-moving styles of vernacular architecture “Tudor” has become a designation for styles like half-timbering that characterise the few buildings surviving from before 1485 and others from the Stuart period.