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Historic Preservation for Designers

Autor Peter B. Dedek
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 mai 2014
Historic Preservation for Designers offers a comprehensive overview of historic preservation with a focus on historic interiors, historic building materials, and the adaptive reuse of interiors. This text includes a brief history of preservation in the United States, criteria to determine whether a building is historic, a discussion of preservation law, and how to document historic buildings with a focus on design and understanding functional and aesthetic requirements.The text explores issues including building restoration and rehabilitation standards, adaptive reuse principles,and codes and accessibility requirements. Designers will discover timely information on inspecting historic buildings to determine their age and condition as well as the growing relationship between historic preservation, green design, and the environment.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781609015091
ISBN-10: 1609015096
Pagini: 384
Ilustrații: 175 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 187 x 235 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.72 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Fairchild Books
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

Chapter objectives, summaries, key terms, study questions and projects, end notes and bibliographies

Notă biografică

Peter B. Dedek is Associate Professor of Interior Design at Texas State University-San Marcos, USA, where he has taught History of Design and History of Architecture courses as well as a graduate-level course in Historic Preservation within the Department of History. His professional background is centered on historic preservation and residential design, working in the Division of Architecture at the Texas Historical Commission in Austin for several years and for Michael Emrick, AIA, a preservation architect in Nashville, Tennessee.

Cuprins

Section One: The Preservation FieldChapter 1 Origins: A Brief History of Historic Preservation in the United StatesChapter 2 Government Involvement in Preservation: The Federal and State RolesChapter 3 Local Governments and the Private Sector in Preservation Planning and DesignSection 2: Preservation PracticeChapter 4: What Makes a Property Historic? Identifying, Researching, and Documenting Historic PropertiesChapter 5: Historic Preservation LawChapter 6 From Demolition to Preservation: Divergent Approaches to Managing and Rehabilitating Historic BuildingsChapter 7 A Survey of Historic Building Materials: Their Properties and TreatmentsChapter 8 Common Threats to Historic BuildingsChapter 9 Dating a Historic BuildingSection 3: Preservation DesignChapter 10: Sensitive Rehabilitation and Applying the Secretary of the Interior's StandardsChapter 11: Programming and Managing Historic Design ProjectsChapter 12: Universal Design, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and Historic BuildingsChapter 13 Historic Preservation, the Environment, and Green BuildingConclusion: In with the Old, Out with the New: Emerging Trends in Historic Preservation in the Twenty-First Century