{"product_id":"pierre-thiebaut-old-buildings-looking-for-new-use-61-examples-from-europe-9783936681086","title":"Old Buildings Looking for New Use. 61 Examples from Europe","description":"The regions of Europe have an architectural heritage that is a thousand\n\u003cbr\u003e\nyears old; today's challenge is to integrate this heritage into\n\u003cbr\u003e\ncontemporary life in a sustainable way.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nFrom the first, architecture has always aimed to adapt to the\n\u003cbr\u003e\nway of life of the society it serves, but few buildings have come\n\u003cbr\u003e\ndown to us intact and as they were originally designed. Since the\n\u003cbr\u003e\nsecond half of the 19th century the speeding-up of history has\n\u003cbr\u003e\nincreased the rhythm of change and has led to continual restructuring,\n\u003cbr\u003e\nextension and conversion.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThese changes have brought about the use of more and more\n\u003cbr\u003e\ninnovative techniques, based on flexibility and reversibility, but the\n\u003cbr\u003e\nweight of materials, the time needed to implement these programmes,\n\u003cbr\u003e\nfinancial constraints and cultural compartmentalisation\n\u003cbr\u003e\nhave deferred many of these projects and left us with a museum\n\u003cbr\u003e\nheritage frozen in time and quite unrelated to the original purpose\n\u003cbr\u003e\nof the buildings.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nWhat can be done with buildings looking for new use - a fortress\n\u003cbr\u003e\nwithout an army, a château without a lord, a workshop without\n\u003cbr\u003e\nan artisan, a factory without workers, or even an abbey without\n\u003cbr\u003e\nmonks or a church without a congregation?\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThe rise of a new national or international style or the creation\n\u003cbr\u003e\nof innovative techniques does not necessarily damage the integrity\n\u003cbr\u003e\nof a place. Modern techniques and materials, such as glass and\n\u003cbr\u003e\nsteel, have a transparency, lightness, flexibility and reversibility that\n\u003cbr\u003e\nmake them highly suitable for integrative undertakings.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThe examples presented in this book all demonstrate a desire\n\u003cbr\u003e\nto be considered as 'local' projects and to take their place in an\n\u003cbr\u003e\nevolutionary interpretation of history. After more than a century of\n\u003cbr\u003e\nconflicting debate on the subject of rehabilitation, it seems that the\n\u003cbr\u003e\naims expressed in the Charter of Venice have borne fruit by giving\n\u003cbr\u003e\nrise to quality and personalised buildings that themselves are a\n\u003cbr\u003e\ncontribution to this debate.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nPierre Thiébaut studied architecture in France and in the USA\n\u003cbr\u003e\n(where Louis Kahn was one of his professors), and is also a graduate\n\u003cbr\u003e\nin planning of the Institut d'Urbanisme de Paris and the Ecole\n\u003cbr\u003e\nNationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris. Prior to his present\n\u003cbr\u003e\nactivity as a writer of articles and books on architectural rehabilitation\n\u003cbr\u003e\nand teacher at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture\n\u003cbr\u003e\nde Paris La Villette, he was an Architecte des Bâtiments de France\n\u003cbr\u003e\nheading the Service Départemental du Patrimoine du Conseil Général\n\u003cbr\u003e\nde Seine et Marne.","brand":"Edition Axel Menges GmbH","offers":[{"title":"Used - good","offer_id":53130072031574,"sku":"9783936681086-G","price":25.26,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9783936681086_1_9086d534-a3b5-4dc4-856a-89a1a0b41f36.jpg?v=1781241497","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/pierre-thiebaut-old-buildings-looking-for-new-use-61-examples-from-europe-9783936681086","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}