- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co. (17 Jun 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0393731766
- ISBN-13: 978-0393731767
- Product Dimensions: 20.4 x 1.2 x 25.1 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,593,996 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"It is wonderful to have a book that has as its starting point: 'Buildings succeed as architecture only to the extent they simultaneously do well what they are asked to do and say something interesting and satisfying about the human condition.'" Building Design "Erudite and informing and sharply amusing..." RIBA Journal
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The Architecture of Additions examines the impact of new building on important existing architecture-from masterly succession at St Peter's Church in Rome to Penn Central's proposal for Grand Central Terminal to the Louvre Pyramid and the Studio National at Le Fresnoy, with emphasis on the contributions of modernism and the problems and possibilities of its late-twentieth-century successors. Paul Spencer Byard, an architect and lawyer, looks at more than sixty additions, built and unbuilt, for criteria to help protect the public interest in great buildings. The Architecture of Additions will help architects work successfully with significant buildings and, as importantly, will help interested private and public persons understand architecture.
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One of the few books I've seen that tackle this issue, well done!
22 Jan 2008
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The topic of how new and old buildings are to be related to one another is one of the least-discussed and most widely mis-understood within the profession of architecture. This book, and another like it, the earlier "Architecture in context: Fitting new buildings with old" by Brent Brolin, are two of the few good books I've found that tackle this issue, and each features essentially case analysis of both successful and unsuccessful examples of the relationship between new and old buildings in many different forms. In fact, the two books have very little, if any, overlap in content, and therefore make very good companion books. These are must-reads for any architecture, urban design, and historic preservation students (and practitioners) involved in this type of design work.
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