1st Edition

On Altering Architecture

By Fred Scott Copyright 2008
240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

Bringing together interior design and architectural theory, this exciting text looks at the common practices of building alteration, reconsidering established ideas and methods, to initiate the creation of a theory of the interior or interventional design. Fred Scott examines in-depth case studies of interventional design from architectural history across the world – examples discussed are... Read more
1. Unchanging Architecture and the Case for Alteration  2. The Literate and the Vernacular  3. Restoration, Preservation and Alteration  4. Parody and Other Views  5. Parallels to Alteration  6. Degrees of Alteration  7. Stripping Back  8. The Process of Intervention  9. Prohibitions and Difficulties  10. Some Resolutions  11. The Wider Context  12. Unfinished

Biography

Fred Scott has been Visiting Professor of Interior Architecture at Rhode Island School of Design and was previously course leader for Interior Design at Kingston University, London.