
Architecture in Existing Fabric
Planning, Design, Building
Birkhäuser Verlag GmbH
1st Edition
Published on 25. May 2007
Book
Hardback
221 pages
978-3-7643-7752-6 (ISBN)
Description
Architectural work on existing structures has become enormously important in recent years. For the majority of architects, this is where future market opportunities will lie. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the field and is thus addressed to all practitioners, students, and building sponsors whose interest goes beyond an initial encounter with this wideranging field of activity. Contradicting the conventional view that creative design work is the exclusive province of new building design, the authors offer a nuanced account of active and creative strategies for planning, design, and execution. Subjects considered range from town planning issues through the overall project cycle and its individual phases all the way to building management. Special focuses are the "grammar of design" as well as the issues arising through collaboration of different experts. In order to illuminate this broad and complex spectrum of topics, the book incorporates thirty examples of projects from Europe and North America, in which buildings from a huge variety of periods - from the Middle Ages to the 1960s - are transferred into the present.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basel/Berlin/Boston
Switzerland
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
86 s/w Abbildungen, 231 farbige Abbildungen
86 b/w and 231 col. ill.
Dimensions
Height: 24 cm
Width: 17 cm
Weight
756 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-7643-7752-6 (9783764377526)
Schweitzer Classification
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E-Book
11/2012
1st Edition
Birkhäuser
€44.95
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Persons
Johannes Cramer, Architekt, Professor für Bau- und Stadtbaugeschichte an der TU Berlin; Stefan Breitling, freier Architekt, TU Berlin.