Overview

One of the problems faced by heritage organizations and museums is adapting old buildings to their needs or building new ones to fit in with historic sites. How exactly do you create a visitor's centre at Stonehenge? The real difficulty lies where the budget is minimal, and the potential damage to the environment or setting enormous. ""Architecture in Conservation"" looks at the need of the heritage industry to respond sensitively to the limitations or potentials of the environment. The book contains a number of international case studies which illustrate both good and bad examples of building practice and is intended as a handbook for those responsible for commissioning heritage work.

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`There are books on modern buildings and books on conservation. James Strike is to be congratulated on tackling that difficult in-between ground - how to insert pieces of new design into historic settings.' - Architect's Journal `...a brave attempt to cross the great illusory divide between conservation and design ... a book that tackles this problem is long overdue.' - Building

Author Information

James Strike was involved with design and new developments at English Heritage until 1993. He has now joined the team of conservation specialists in the Department of Conservation Sciences at Bournemouth University. He is the author of Construction into Design (1991).

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