The Architecture of Additions: Design and Regulation

Paul Spencer Byard

Praise for The Architecture of Additions:

"As Paul Spencer Byard, FAIA, posits in his brilliant book The Architecture of Additions, a building is both what it says and what is does."

—Architectural Record

"[A] superlative overview of the issues inherent in designing new buildings in concert with older ones. With concision and clarity . . . Byard covers virtually every scenario likely to be faced by practitioners, patrons, and preservationists."

—New York Times Book Review

"[B]rief, succinct, and well thought out. . . . The book is thoroughly illustrated with plans and footprints at the head of each building study, followed by a series of photos that hammer the point home. You don’t need to be an architect to understand his argument or appreciate the beauty of his examples"

—Old-House Journal

"[T]his book will help architects work with significant old buildings and help interested private and public persons arrive at judgements about architectural successes and failures that are rational, satisfying, and enforceable. The issues discussed here affect everyone who has a stake in livable cities."

—Refurbishment Projects

Overview

The Architecture of Additions considers the ways in which old and new architecture combine and work together—the central issue in the design of architectural additions. Paul Spencer Byard, an architect and lawyer, looks at more than sixty combinations, built and unbuilt, for criteria to help protect the public interest in great buildings. Drawing on examples from Grand Central Terminal to St. Peter’s Church in Rome, from the Louvre Pyramid to the Salk Institute, this book will help architects work with significant old buildings and help interested private and public persons arrive at judgments about architectural successes and failures that are rational, satisfying, and enforceable. The issues discussed here affect everyone who has a stake in livable cities.

About the Author –

Paul Spencer Byard, FAIA, is a principal of Platt Byard Dovell White Architects in New York City and director of the Historic Preservation program at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.

ISBN: 0-393-73176-6