Architecture and the existing fabric 9 Architecture and time 15 The built environment and identity 18 Old and new 20 The value of the built environment 24 The planning process 29 SPECIAL FEATURES OF THE PLANNING PROCESS 29 Protective measures and essential repairs 31 Preparatory investigations 31 The level of planning detail 33 Casa de las Conchas, Salamanca, Spain 34 THE PARTICIPANTS The client 34 The architect 35 The planning authorities 35 Overview: Planning permission procedure 37 Naumburg City Museum, Germany 41 The contractors 42 DECISION-MAKING AND COMMUNICATION Preparatory investigations 45 RECORDING HISTORIC BUILDINGS 47 Property and geographic details 47 Documentary evidence and archives 48 Recording the building as found 50 Metric building survey 54 Overview: Precision levels in measured surveys 59 BUILDING SURVEY 66 Houses on the Miihlenstrasse, Havelberg, Germany 67 Building archaeology 68 Nidaros Cathedral, Trondheim, Norway 71 Heubach Castle, Germany 74 Balbarini townhouse, Pisa, Italy 75 Bernhard chapel, Owen, Germany 78 Schminke house, Lobau, Germany 79 Structural survey 83 Technical and material investigations 86 EVALUATION AND INTERPRETATION - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES 89 Design strategies 95 DESIGNING WITH HISTORY 97 DISPOSITION 101 Definition of appropriate function 102 Municipal archives in the Church of San Agostin, Valladolid, Spain 103 Sensitive interventions 104 Tabourettli Theatre in the old Spalenhof, Basel, Switzerland 105 Auxiliary constructions 107 Bank in a igth century building, Budapest, Hungary 109 DESIGN STRATEGIES 111 Corrective maintenance 111 Private residence, Venice, Italy 112 Medieval house, Bamberg, Germany 113 Modernisation 115 Palazzo as museum, Venice, Italy 116 Adaptation 119 Loft in an industrial building, Madrid, Spain 121 Conversion and extension of an industrial building, Gottelborn, Germany 122 Hotel in a monastery church, Maastricht, Netherlands 125 Tyrolean Museum of History, Tyrol Castle, Italy128 Single family houses, Utrecht, Netherlands 130 Historic office building, Zurich, Switzerland 131 Replacement 134 ARCHITECTONIC EXPRESSION 137 Correspondence Swimming pool, Spexhall Manor, Great Britain139 German Federal Foreign Office, Berlin, Germany 140 Unification 141 Fragmentation 143 Town hall conversion and extension, Utrecht, Netherlands 149 Nuevos Ministerios, Madrid, Spain 150 Junction and delineation 151 British Museum, Queen Elizabeth II Great Court, London, Great Britain 154 Documentation centre of the former Nazi party rally ground, Germany 156 Detail planning 159 PREREQUISITES 159 Development not demolition 159 An element-for-element approach 160 Library, Eichstatt, Germany 162 Planning on the basis of an accurate measured survey 163 PRINCIPLES 165 Repair not renew 165 A cumulative process 167 Naumburg City Museum, Germany 169 Reclaimed materials 171 SOLUTIONS: TWO EXAMPLES 175 Upgrading the thermal performance of windows 175 Villa, Buchschlag, Germany 176 Repairing timber roof structures 178 Building works 183 SITE FACILITIES 183 The workshop principle 185 Protective measures for building elements on site 185 Heubach Castle, library and museum, Heubach, Germany 187 SUPERVISING BUILDING WORKS 189 Samples, tests and mock-ups 191 Specifications and quantities192 CONSTRUCTION TIME AND COSTING194 Scheduling works 196 Architect's fees 196 Sustainability 199 Facility Management 200 Monitoring and maintenance202 Preserving property value 203 Appendix 205 Bibliography 207 Index of architects 213 Subject index 215 Illustration credits 219 On the authors 221