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Author Stone, Sally, author

Title UnDoing buildings : adaptive reuse and cultural memory / Sally Stone
Published New York : Routledge, 2019

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 WATERFT ART&ARCH  720.103 Sto/Uba  AVAILABLE
Description 249 pages
Contents 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 -- Sustainable adaptation -- 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Architecture -- Conservation and restoration
Buildings -- Remodeling for other use
Architecture and society
LC no. 2019008478
ISBN 9781138226616 (hardback)
1138226610
9781138226630 (pbk.)
1138226637