Adaptive reuse : extending the lives of buildings /

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Author / Creator:	Wong, Liliane, author.
Imprint:	Basel, Switzerland : Birkhäuser, [2017]
Description:	1 online resource (256 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Buildings -- Remodeling for other use. Interior architecture. Architecture and history. Architecture and history. Buildings -- Remodeling for other use. Interior architecture.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11676185

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ISBN:	9783038213130 3038213136 9783038219811 3038219819 9783038215370 3038215376 3038213152
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 09, 2017).
Summary:	Building in existing fabric requires more than practical solutions and stylistic skills. The adaptive reuse of buildings, where changes in the structure go along with new programs and functions, poses the fundamental question of how the past should be included in the design for the future. On the background of long years of teaching and publishing, and using vivid imagery from Frankenstein to Rem Koolhaas and beyond, the author provides a comprehensive introduction to architectural design for adaptive reuse projects. History and theory, building typology, questions of materials and construction, aspects of preservation, urban as well as interior design are dealt with in ways that allow to approach adaptive reuse as a design practice field of its own right.
Other form:	Print version: Wong, Liliane. Adaptive reuse. Boston : Birkhäuser, 2017 9783038215370

Table of Contents:

Preface ; 00. Babel ; 01. New Order: The Frankenstein Syndrome ; 02. Plunder: Erasure & Redemption ; 03. The Quest for Immortality ; 04. Battle of the Immortals ; 05. Immortality Redefined ; 06. Immortality Codified ; 07. Hosts [and Guests] ; 08. Considering DNA.
09. Ghosts 10. Fitting In ; 11. The Impassive Host ; 12. Sited Interventions ; 13. The Mathematics of Reuse ; 14. A New and Distant Frontier ; 15. Second Violin ; Illustration Credits ; About the Author ; Index.

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