Every one of the diverse projects elaborated in this handsome book is a pleasure for the eye and a spur to the imagination, blending elements of before-and-after and how-to-do-it. Turning from spread to spread-each one enlivened with telling photographs in black-and-white and in color, as well as floor plans (some axonometric), site plans, cross sections, and scale drawings-the reader/viewer virtually takes part in architectural and design enterprises as fascinating as they are various. Seeing the renovation of a loft in New York City, or the renovation of a baroque manor house near Brussels, or the restoration and expansion of a house in Tunisia, or the conversion of a barn in Wisconsin, as pictured and described here, is an enjoyable as well as an instructive experience, yielding insights into the thinking as well as the methods of the architects and designers involved.

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