Adaptive Reuse

Provides a comprehensive introduction to architectural design for adaptive reuse projects. Covers history and theory, building typology, questions of materials and construction, aspects of preservation, urban planning, and interior design through photographs, drawings, plans, and other images. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Establishes best practices for the management, conservation, and interpretation of historical industrial sites, including the adaptive reuse of buildings. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Describes all aspects of sustainable conversion adaptation of existing buildings and provides solutions for making urban settlements resilient to climate change. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Explores the role of ideas about time in the design inclinations and choices of contemporary designers of the environment. Contributors consider how the new can be incorporated into the old; how designing for the very short term has significant advantages; how what is temporary can be re-used; and how the design of materials, buildings and landscapes can improve sustainability and enhance experiences of time passing. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Completed in 1987 in Liverpool, UK