Bibliograph

Old buildings, new designs, architectural transformations, Charles Bloszies

Type

Label

Old buildings, new designs, architectural transformations, Charles Bloszies

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Old buildings, new designs

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Charles Bloszies

Series statement

Architecture briefs series

Sub title

architectural transformations

Summary

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

Target audience

adult

resource.variantTitle

Architectural transformations

Classification