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Building for Change : The Architecture of Creative Reuse by Ruth Lang (2022, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherDie Gestalten Verlag

ISBN-103967040445

ISBN-139783967040449

eBay Product ID (ePID)9057277112

Product Key Features

Book TitleBuilding for Change : the Architecture of Creative Reuse

Number of Pages256 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2022

TopicAdaptive Reuse & Renovation, Buildings / Public, Commercial & Industrial, Buildings / Residential, Professional Practice, Sustainability & Green Design

IllustratorYes

GenreArchitecture

AuthorRuth Lang

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Length10.2 in

Item Width8.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2022-502486

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal720.47

SynopsisArchitects are adapting existing buildings to create new spaces for a more conscious future.The urban fabric changes more slowly than our spatial needs, accelerated by digital technologies and new lifestyles. The trick for canny architects lies in an ingenious reuse and creative recycling that result in the stunning transformation of existing buildings for new purposes.Building for Change explores this architecture of reuse and adaptation. It presents sofa factories turned coworking hub, viaducts turned community garden, department stores turned cultural center, and other inspiring projects. The book also showcases spaces that are designed to be dismantled and repurposed down the line. This architecture of care is aspirational and ambitious: to make construction more sustainable and buildings fit for the future., Reduce, reuse and recycle. In today's world, there is a renewed enthusiasm for the adaptive reuse of our existing structures at different scales - from the material, to spatial, to the programmatic - and even in designing for future deconstruction and new functions. In this context, creativity is demonstrated by the ingenuity with which we might reuse that which surrounds us. This book sets out the principles of a nascent architecture which advocates the practice of care - for our planet, and for our existing buildings - but without dampening creative ambition or architectural aspirations, and which reflects a crescent interest in repopulating mid-sized cities and former industrial areas. Collecting together these strategies for the first time, this book provides inspiration and insight from the architects who have undertaken such a radical new approach. Through the compilation of an international survey of projects, this book will demonstrate how adopting key environmental strategies for reuse can be deployed to spectacular effect.

LC Classification NumberNA2542.36.B8 2022