UnDoing Buildings

<p><em>UnDoing Buildings: Adaptive Reuse and Cultural Memory </em>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?</p><p>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.</p><p><em>UnDoing Buildings: Adaptive Reuse and Cultural Memory </em>has an international perspective and will be of interest to upper level students and professionals working on the fields of Interior Design, Interior Architecture, Architecture, Conservation, Urban Design and Development.</p> <p>Table of Contents </p><p>Motivation</p><p>Foreword: Ed Hollis</p><p>Chapter 1: Introduction </p><p>Chapter 2: Reading and Recognition: Landmarks of Memory</p><p>Chapter 3: The Perception of the Past: The Task of the Translator</p><p>Chapter 4: Site Specific Art: Unintentional Monuments</p><p>Chapter 5: The Problem of Obsolete Buildings: A Society Can Only Support So Many Museums</p><p>Chapter 6: Memory and Anticipation: The Existing Building and the Expectations of the New Users </p><p>Chapter 7: Conservation: A Future Orientated Movement Focussing on the Past</p><p>Chapter 8: The Sustainable Adaptation of the Existing Building</p><p>Chapter 9: Spatial Agency or Taking Action</p><p>Chapter 10: Smartness and the Impact of the Digital</p><p>Chapter 11: On Taking Away</p><p>Chapter 12: On Making Additions: Assemblage, Memory and the Recovery of Wholeness</p><p>Chapter 13: Itinerant Elements</p><p>Chapter 14: Nearness and Thinking About Details</p><p>Further Reading</p>