New Houses in Old Buildings

The lack of space in big cities and the desire to preserve old architecture of great value help to explain the continuing desire to retrieve spaces of the past as locations for new dwellings. The adaptation of the conditions of the old building to present-day living needs demands delicate technical and documentary work by the architect. This volume explores a variety of ideas for reconditioning historical spaces for domestic use, complete with plans and pictures of the original state, the development of the project and the final result, in which a suggestive, fertile dialogue is struck between past and present. The works shown here are by well-known architects from different European countries as John Pawson, Simon Conder, Beat Consoni, Richard Rogers and Vincent van Duysen.