Publisher: Birkhauser, ISBN: 9783035629262., Author: Liliane Wong, Format: Softcover, 240 x 170  mm, 264pp

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 back of long years of research, and using vivid imagery from Frankenstein to Rem Koolhaas and beyond, this new edition provides a comprehensive introduction to architectural design for adaptive reuse.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.