Street-by-Street Retrofit: A Future for Architecture

For many years, it has been recognised that improving the energy performance of the existing housing stock is vital if energy demand is to be reduced to combat climate change. The art of retrofit is posited as a way forward beyond today’s weak pseudo-Modernist architecture – all that is left – the final echo of Modernism’s original utopian impulse.

Central to the book is the presentation of domestic street-by-street retrofit as an issue with technical, financial and societal dimensions. A ho...