Tabula Plena: Forms of Urban Preservation

In contrast to tabula rasa urbanism, this book considers strategies for tabula plena—urban sites that are full of existing buildings of multiple time periods. Such dense sites prompt designers to work between the fields of architecture, historic preservation, and urban planning, developing methods for collaborative authorship and interlocking architectural forms. The book grew from a collaboration between the Oslo School of Architecture and Design and Columbia University’s Graduate School o...