The final volume of the DFG Research Training Group ‘Cultural and Technical Significance of Historic Buildings’ addresses the understanding of the conditions, possibilities and limits of historical knowledge in the context of a findings-oriented and diachronic research programme during the past years. On the basis of empirical case studies and methodological considerations, the volume discusses the potentials of historical building research and clarifies its constructive character. Initial questions of the volume are the following: How do we shape and redesign historical buildings in the process of researching and recognising them? What role do the individual, disciplinary work steps play in the recording, documentation and evaluation of historical buildings? How do valorisation and reflection on knowledge relate to each other?

• Focuses on interdisciplinary approaches in historic building research
• Provides detailed insight into research results of the programme