Adaptive Reuse in Architecture: A Typological Index

by Liliane Wong

Liliane Wong's latest volume on
adaptive reuse in architecture presents 50 spectacular conversion and
reuse projects worldwide, including buildings such as the TWA Hotel at
NewYork's John F. Kennedy Airport, the CaixaForum in Madrid, and the New
Museum in Berlin. The projects are presented using a new classification
system that addresses practitioners as well as academics. The author's
introductory essay provides a comprehensive overview and historical
context for the enormous evolution and expansion of adaptive reuse over
the past 50 years.

Genres: Architecture

224 pages, Paperback

Published June 12, 2023

About the author

Liliane Wong received her BA in Mathematics from Vassar College and her MArch from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She is Professor and Chair of the Department of Interior Architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design that focuses on architectural interventions to existing structures. Her interest and teaching in this subject led her to co-found the Int|AR Journal on Design Interventions & Adaptive Reuse that promotes creative and academic explorations of sustainable environments through exemplary works of reuse. A long-time volunteer at soup kitchens, her teaching emphasizes the importance of public engagement in architecture and design. Other teaching and research areas include design as social activism, the mathematics of curved space, the low income, modular home and technical textiles. She was recognized by Design Intelligence for 2018-2019 as one of the top 25 most admired educators in the US in the fields of architecture, interiors and landscape architecture.

She is the author of Adaptive Reuse Extending the Lives of Buildings, co-author of Libraries - A Design Manual and contributing author of Designing Interior Architecture.