Main entry:

Stone, Sally, author.

Title & Author:

UnDoing buildings : adaptive reuse and cultural memory / Sally Stone.

Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
©2020

Description:

xvii, 249 pages ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reading and recognition : landmarks of memory -- The perception of the past : the task of the translator -- Site specific art : unintentional monuments -- The problem of obsolete buildings: a society can only support so many museums -- Memory and anticipation : the existing building and the expectations of the new users -- Conservation : a future orientated movement focussing on the past -- The sustainable adaptation of the existing building -- Spatial agency or taking action -- Smartness and the impact of the digital -- On taking away -- On making additions : assemblage, memory and the recovery of wholeness -- Itinerant elements -- Nearness and thinking about details.

Summary:

"UnDoing Buildings: Adaptive Reuse and Cultural Memory discusses one of the greatest challenges for twenty-first-century society: what is to be done with the huge stock of existing buildings that have outlived the function for which they were built? Their worth is well recognised and the importance of retaining them has been long debated, but if they are to be saved, what is to be done with these redundant buildings? This book argues that remodelling is a healthy and environmentally friendly approach. Issues of heritage, conservation, sustainability and smartness are at the forefront of many discussions about architecture today and adaptive reuse offers the opportunity to reinforce the particular character of an area using up-to-date digital and construction techniques for a contemporary population. Issues of collective memory and identity combined with ideas of tradition, history and culture mean that it is possible to retain a sense of continuity with the past as a way of creating the future."

ISBN:

9781138226616 hardcover
1138226610 hardcover
9781138226630 paperback
1138226637 paperback
electronic book
9781315397221
ebook
9781315397207

Subject:

Architecture Conservation and restoration.
Buildings Remodeling for other use.
Architecture and society.
Architecture Conservation et restauration.
Constructions Reconversion.
Architecture et société.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 306550
Call No.: BIB 252103
Status: External loan