ePub On Altering Architecture by Fred Scott in Arts-Photography

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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 ndash; examples discussed are taken from the States; Europe and Japan. Scott expands and builds on the ideas of Viollet-le-Duc; structuralism and other thoughts to layout criteria for an art of intervention and change. The book draws on the philosophy of conservation; preservation and restoration; as well as exploring related social and political issues.For those in professions of architecture and interiors; town planners; and students in architecture and art schools; On Altering Architecture forms a body of thought that can be aligned and compared with architectural theory.