This book is a celebration of good new design for old buildings and the SPAB philosophy that good new architecture can sit happily alongside old and is preferable to pastiche.
Economic Benefits of Preserving Old Buildings: Papers from the Economic Benefits of Preserving Old Buildings Conference
In Building Reuse: Sustainability, Preservation, and the Value of Design, Kathryn Rogers Merlino makes an impassioned case that truly sustainable design requires reusing and reimagining existing buildings.
Restoring Old Buildings for Contemporary Uses: An American Sourcebook for Architects and Preservationists
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 ...
Respectful Rehabilitation: Answers to Your Questions about Old Buildings
This book focuses on difficulties and opportunities in revitalization of old, derelict or abandoned buildings into a library and investigates the transformation of buildings which originally had a different purpose.
This book-with-CD package facilitates the process with more than 400 field guidelines for the treatment of historic building structures, systems, and materials.
Designing with them is an exhilarating enterprise; adding to them, grafting, inserting, knitting new pieces into the existing built fabric is endlessly stimulating.” —Françoise Astorg Bollack
New Uses for Old Buildings