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Byard, Paul Spencer.

The architecture of additions : design and regulation / Paul Spencer Byard.

1st ed.

New York : W.W. Norton & Co., ©1998.

191 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

In this text, the author poses the question "Why save architecture?", and offers a critical foundation for the preservation and the management of change.

Buildings -- Additions.

Architecture -- Aesthetics.

Architecture -- Decision making.

Includes index.

Introduction: The Public Worth of Architectural Expression -- 1. The Evolution of Expression in Combined Works: Lessons from the Masters -- 2. Twentieth-Century Combined Works: The Expressive Possibilities of Modernism. Extension. Derivation. Transformation -- 3. Twentieth-century Combined Works and the Law: The Special Case of "Preservation" The Legal Background. A Test for Preservation. The Protected Identity and Its Place in the New Hierarchy. Securing the Place of the Protected Identity. Protecting Particular Sources of Identity -- 4. Combined Works and Contemporary Expression: The Architecture of Additions at the End of the Twentieth Century. The Architecture of Imitation. Architecture in the Shape of Things. The Architecture of Appropriateness. The Architecture of Possibility. Afterword: The Architecture of Additions.

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