In Detail: Building in Existing Fabric – Refurbishment, Extensions, New Design (ed. Christian Schittich, Birkhäuser & Edition Detail 2003) is a comprehensive design manual for urban infill.
A disused power station is converted into a cultural entre, an old barn is made into a residential house. All around us we encounter buildings whose original purpose has rendered them obsolete, and which now offer space for new uses. Creative ideas give rise to inspiring projects which demand unconventional concepts and a sensitive approach to the existing building. The construction and building requirements confronting the architect are as varied and individual as the buildings themselves. Building in Existing Fabric examines a wide range of realized examples, high-lighting successful and innovative solutions, from the rehabilitation of preserved monuments to the renovation or renewal of existing buildings, from the re-use of a gothic monastery of the former industrial buildings of Fiat Lingotto to the renovation of structures made of precast concrete panels.
– Christian Schittich (ed.) In Detail: Building in Existing Fabric – Refurbishment, Extensions, New Design (Birkhäuser & Edition Detail, 2003), book description
The text is in English. The book is richly illustrated with photographs and architectural drawings.
Our copy in stock is in good condition. The pages are clean, no markings; the first flyleaf has a press mark. The binding is fine. The dust jacket shows some small traces of edge wear.
