The Design of Renovations

Donald Friedman and Nathaniel Oppenheimer

Overview

A guide to renovation design for architects and engineers.

The design of renovations is like any other building design, but more complicated, because the questions that architects and engineers face in the process are complicated by the existing building's form, materials, peculiarities of age, and construction. The Design of Renovations outlines the basic pertinent principles of design and construction and explains how to apply them to renovation that meets the physical and aesthetic needs of the job, given the constraints of the materials involved. Dozens of actual case studies illustrate the practical application of the theory, methods, and procedures.

Acclaim

"Donald Friedman is a civil engineer in the best tradition of Mario Salvadori. . . . [H]e has much to offer preservationists."

--APT Bulletin: The Journal of Preservation Technology

About the Authors

Donald Friedman, author of Historical Building Construction, and Nathaniel Oppenheimer are principals in a New York structural engineering firm that specializes in renovations.

ISBN: 0-393-73014-X
1997
192 pages, 150 illustrations