Table of Contents
Motivation
Foreword: Ed Hollis
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Reading and Recognition: Landmarks of Memory
Chapter 3: The Perception of the Past: The Task of the Translator
Chapter 4: Site Specific Art: Unintentional Monuments
Chapter 5: The Problem of Obsolete Buildings: A Society Can Only Support So Many Museums
Chapter 6: Memory and Anticipation: The Existing Building and the Expectations of the New Users
Chapter 7: Conservation: A Future Orientated Movement Focussing on the Past
Chapter 8: The Sustainable Adaptation of the Existing Building
Chapter 9: Spatial Agency or Taking Action
Chapter 10: Smartness and the Impact of the Digital
Chapter 11: On Taking Away
Chapter 12: On Making Additions: Assemblage, Memory and the Recovery of Wholeness
Chapter 13: Itinerant Elements
Chapter 14: Nearness and Thinking About Details
Further Reading
Sally Stone lives in the north of England. She has been designing, formulating ideas and writing about building reuse for 30 years. Sally is a Reader at the Manchester School of Architecture where she leads the Master of Architecture programme.
"Probably the most comprehensive book in the field today, Stone's
narrative allows the reader to go inside a building's life,
connecting architectural theory with contemporary art, and
environmental science to interrogate its layers of history, and
changes over time."
Markus Berger, Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director,
Department of Interior Architecture, Rhode Island School of
Design"An invaluable reference book, ‘Undoing Buildings’
illuminates the myriad attitudes and strategies brought to existing
buildings and their accumulated meanings in the manner of
preparatory literature for a studio or workshop, in which
precedents and their attendant histories and thought are exposed to
both enlighten and empower the participant."
Mark Pimlott, TU Delft, Netherlands
Author of Without and within, and The Public Interior as Idea and
Project"The 21st century is the era of the circular economy. This
book is an authoritative and compelling guide to understanding the
ideas and values of these approaches to the built environment. It
is an essential read for those who want a comprehensive
introduction to the fundamental thinking behind building re-use and
the formation of the architectured and designed interior"
Professor Graeme Brooker: Chair of Interior Design, Royal College
of Art, London"Sally Stone’s book is an important contribution to
the emerging discipline of adaptive reuse and its growing
theoretical framework. Her attractive discourse considers the built
environment as a palimpsest not frozen in the past, but as a
possibilty for future programs."
Prof. Koenraad Van Cleempoel, Faculty of Architecture & Arts,
Hasselt University “This book provides, aside from an intelligent
and inspirational state of the art of an interiorist’s approach
towards existing buildings, a provocative expansion of the existing
body of theory on adaptive reuse. Stone’s coherent and captious
picture will greatly help students and academics interested in the
past and future of our built environment.”
Inge Somers, University of Antwerp – Faculty of Design Sciences –
Interior architecture program"Buildings witness change over time
made visible through physical renovations. These changes are
initiated by historical events unrecorded but evident in the
appearance of architecture. Sally Stone draws together these
narratives of the tangible and intangible to give voice to the
latent stories embedded in the history of buildings."
Lois Weinthal, Chair and Professor, School of Interior Design,
Ryerson University
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