Building for Change: The Architecture of Creative Reuse - Hardcover

Gestalten; Dr. Ruth Lang

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3967040445 ISBN 13: 9783967040449

Publisher: gestalten, 2022

Synopsis

How can we build a sustainable future in a time of climate change and dwindling resources?

Building for Change collects the strategies of reuse together, demonstrating their power for change through groundbreaking projects from some of the world’s leading architects.

From waste repurposed as construction materials, to buildings reworked with canny spatial interventions, and modular structures designed to be dismantled, discover how the architecture of creative reuse is helping us build a better tomorrow.

About this title

About the Author

Ruth Lang is an architect, curator, writer, and teacher at the Royal College of Art and the London School of Architecture. Her work explores how contemporary architectural practice can respond to issues of diversity and the Climate Emergency. Ruth has curated exhibitions for the V&A Museum and the Jerwood Gallery, and she writes for FRAME, Architectural Review, and Modernist Magazine.

From the Back Cover

Dit inspirerende fotoboek laat zien hoe slimme herbestemming en circulair bouwen bijdragen aan een duurzame toekomst. Van gerecyclede bouwmaterialen tot modulaire ontwerpen die eenvoudig te demonteren zijn, en van creatieve ruimtelijke interventies tot innovatieve renovaties―Building for Change toont de kracht van hergebruik aan de hand van baanbrekende projecten van toonaangevende architecten.

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The Architecture of Creative Reuse. Reduce, reuse and recycle. In todays world, there is a renewed enthusiasm for the adaptive reuse of our existing structures at different scales.

Edition details

• Publisher: gestalten
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3967040445
• ISBN 13: 9783967040449
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Gestalten, Dr. Ruth Lang