Historic Preservation Handbook

This is a practical guide to understanding historic architecture and its preservation. It shows analyzing and evaluating historic buildings in order to better renovate existing ones and create outstanding new ones. It is heavily illustrated with plans, diagrams, and photos.

ISBN 0071364110   Pages 347 ISBN13 9780071364119 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher McGraw-Hill Education - Europe   Weight (grammes) 910 Imprint McGraw-Hill Inc.,US   Published in New York Format Hardback   Series title McGraw-Hill handbooks: Architecture Publication date 01 Dec 2002   Height (mm) 236 Non-book description xx, 347 p. :   Width (mm) 188 Library of Congress NA105.I78   Spine width (mm) 30 DEWEY 363.69   Academic level Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC21

		Acknowledgments
		About the Author
		Introduction
Pt. 1		Building Form		1
		The Formal Archetypes		3
		Size, Mass, Proportion, and Scale		46
		Fenestration		50
		Base, Middle, and Top		56
		Legend and Ornament		61
		Spaces Between Buildings		62
		Districts		63
		Compatibility		71
Pt. 2		Craft		75
		Building Components and Materials		78
		ADA		95
		Building Elements		96
		Mechanical Equipment		126
		Foundation Systems		135
		Wall Systems		139
		Floor Systems		141
		Roof Systems		144
		Posts		145
		Additions		145
		Public Space		164
Pt. 3		Meaning and Policy		171
		Interpretation		173
		Policy		180
App. A		The Athens Charter		205
App. B		International Charter for the Conservation and Restoration of Monuments and Sites		211
App. C		Appleton Charter for the Protection and Enchancement of the Built Environment		215
App. D		Charter for the Preservation of Quebec's Heritage		221
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Excerpts from review by Ralph Lee Scott This work is a primer or textbook on historic preservation. It is divided into three main parts: a general overview of building forms; a short course in building components and materials; and a primer on historic building public policy issues... Irwin attempts to help the reader to construct an analysis of communities and neighborhoods as well as individual historic buildings. He does this to show how historical structures were not just examples of period architecture, but were actually the very fabric of society. Among the techniques the author uses is the use of geometric forms to show how building elements fit into standardized shapes. In the building "craft" section Irwin covers some basic structure elements... Overall, the author accomplishes very well what he has set out to do. He attempts to weave the individual details of historic building analysis into the larger fabric of time, place, and form...He claims the book will help teach the new generation of architectural historians and preservationists how they can "achieve the New Urbanist goal of increasing density by making it both livable and appealing," while at the same time the author explores with the reader the "heart and meaning of preservation in the twenty-first century." Libraries with historic building and architectural history collections will want to add this important work. Most readers using general collections who are interested in historic preservation will find this work a good place to start studying the field. American Reference Books Annual 20040301

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