By Fred Scott
Fred Scott brings jointly principles that may represent a thought on inside, or interventional, layout. He additionally explores the philosophy of conservation, maintenance and recovery on the subject of the evolution of constructions, in addition to the social and political concerns embedded in those subjects.
content material: Unchanging structure and the case for alteration --
The literate and the vernacular --
recovery, renovation and alteration --
Parody and different perspectives --
Parallels to alteration --
levels of alteration --
Stripping again --
the method of intervention --
Prohibitions and problems --
a few resolutions --
the broader context --
Unfinished.
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This in itself would contradict the liberation of daily life that the architect intended to promote through the design of these houses. In looking at the photographs in Boudon’s book over a long period of time, the original design increasingly reasserts itself. The regulating lines and careful massing begin to show through so that the ensemble begins to disclose a double nature in which the vernacular is wedded with the magnificence of the original. Although or maybe because the alterations are neither respectful nor erudite, the houses exist as a strange proof of the architect’s genius.
What is the status of the alterations? One is impressed by the confident nature of some of them. the literate and the vernacular 31 condition. 6). As one first arrives at the Quartiers, in Avenue Henry Fruges, there today are the strange globular planters beneath the bedroom window on the façade of the Type 1 house, as recorded by Boudon, as well as the ‘gabled’ roofline above. These have the feeling now of historical fact, true additions, rather than imposters, which is how one feels the other changes are viewed by the restorers.
Mainly the proposed flexibility was concerned with being able to move internal walls. One might view it as a strategy to limit change, and thus to ensure that the architect retained indefinitely some overall control. This seems to me to want to weaken the principle and pleasures of cross-reference between any present engagement of a building with previous and future engagements. unchanging architecture and the case for alteration 19 20 on altering architecture CHAPTER 2 THE LITERATE AND THE VERNACULAR ‘I think Corb would have liked it.