Architectural voices : listening to old buildings / David Littlefield, Saskia Lewis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Littlefield, David.

Contributor:

Lewis, Saskia.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Buildings--Repair and reconstruction.

Buildings.

Physical Description:

240 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chichester, England ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, 2007.

Summary:

This book discusses the ways that architects go about redeveloping old buildings. In particular, it examines how architects respond to thevoices?,spirit? orcharacter? within the buildings. Some buildings have such charm and overpowering sense of history that architects minimize modern interventions by preserving what they can and using traditional materials; others deliberately juxtapose contemporary designs against the original fabric of the old building; others almost ignore the properties of the original building and treat it as a canvass on which to apply new forms. This book does not take a position on whether or not any particular approach is right or wrong instead it looks at how different architects have responded to the historic buildings they have worked on.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-234) and index.

ISBN:

9780470016732

0470016736

OCLC:

123797931