Old Buildings, New Designs: Architectural Transformations

By Charles Bloszies

Book Overview

Increasingly, architects are hired to design new work for existing structures. Whether for reasons of preservation, sustainability, or cost-effectiveness, the movement to reuse buildings presents a variety of design challenges and opportunities. Old Buildings, New Designs is an Architecture Brief devoted to working within a given architectural fabric from the technical issues that arise from aging construction to the controversy generated by the various project stakeholders to the unique aesthetic possibilities created through the juxtaposition of old and new.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1616890355
• ISBN13: 9781616890353
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.9" x 8.3"
• Grade Range: Preschool to Postsecondary