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- ISBN 9782889154890
- Weight: 1814g
- Dimensions: 210 x 273mm
- Publication Date: 05 Feb 2024
- Publisher: Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires Romandes
- Publication City/Country: CH
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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A book that brings awareness to preservation in architecture.
This third TSAM volume presents content from teaching courses that have been developed at the EPFL for fifteen years. The aim is to promote preservation as a discipline, one of the main branches in the emerging field of socioecological transition. This book also demonstrates how the educational potential of preservation can be harnessed, uniting many social and scientific disciplines, the history of architecture and architects, materiality and its constructed expression, the theory of architecture and design, and the examination—both abstract and concrete—of what surrounds us in every sense, from the teaspoon to the territory. In short, what a minority of responsible architects has always concerned itself with: a silent and sometimes fragile architecture. These qualities should enable preservation to reform and reconstruct a new design process for architecture, which will in turn lead to a new kind of practice.
This third TSAM volume presents content from teaching courses that have been developed at the EPFL for fifteen years. The aim is to promote preservation as a discipline, one of the main branches in the emerging field of socioecological transition. This book also demonstrates how the educational potential of preservation can be harnessed, uniting many social and scientific disciplines, the history of architecture and architects, materiality and its constructed expression, the theory of architecture and design, and the examination—both abstract and concrete—of what surrounds us in every sense, from the teaspoon to the territory. In short, what a minority of responsible architects has always concerned itself with: a silent and sometimes fragile architecture. These qualities should enable preservation to reform and reconstruct a new design process for architecture, which will in turn lead to a new kind of practice.
Franz Graf is a freelance architect in Geneva and associate professor at EPFL, where he is the head of the Laboratory of Techniques and Preservation of Modern Architecture, and professor of technology at the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio. Yvan Delemontey is an architect and doctor of architecture at the Universities of Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis and Geneva.
