On Altering Architecture Fred Scott by Fred Scott 9780203590591, 9780415317511, 9780415317528, 0203590597, 0415317517, 0415317525 instant download after payment.

Fred Scott brings together ideas that might constitute a theory on interior, or interventional, design. He also explores the philosophy of conservation, preservation and restoration in relation to the evolution of buildings, as well as the social and political issues embedded in these subjects.
Content: Unchanging architecture and the case for alteration --
The literate and the vernacular --
Restoration, preservation and alteration --
Parody and other views --
Parallels to alteration --
Degrees of alteration --
Stripping back --
The process of intervention --
Prohibitions and difficulties --
Some resolutions --
The wider context --
Unfinished.
Abstract: Bringing together interior design and architectural theory, this book looks at various practices of building alteration, considering ideas and methods, to initiate the creation of a theory of the interior or interventional design. It examines case studies of interventional design from architectural history taken from the States, Europe and Japan.