Structure and Style: Conserving Twentieth Century Buildings

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Michael Stratton
Taylor & Francis, 1997 - Architecture - 230 pages
This book provides the first study of approaches to appraising and conserving mainstream architecture of the twentieth century - commercial buildings, industrial buildings and housing. Architects, surveyors and conservationists are now appreciating the extent of this challenge. Sufficient research and practical progress has now been undertaken in this field to provide useful material for a text which will be both timely and of broad appeal.
 

Contents

Towards a philosophy for conserving twentieth century buildings
15
A case for reforming architectural values
34
fighting for the appreciation
73
Part Three
101
The relationship between building structure and architectural
143
Clad is bad?
164
Quality longevity and listing
195
Index
225
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