Architecture and the existing fabric -- Architecture and time -- The built environment and identity -- Old and new -- The value of the built environment -- The planning process -- Special features of the planning process -- Protective measures and essential repairs -- Preparatory investigations -- The level of planning detail -- Casa de las Conchas, Salamanca, Spain -- The participants -- The client -- The architect -- The planning authorities -- Overview: Planning permission procedure -- Naumburg City Museum, Germany -- The contractors -- Decision-making and communication -- Preparatory investigations -- Recording historic buildings -- Property and geographic details -- Documentary evidence and archives -- Recording the building as found -- Metric building survey -- Overview: Precision levels in measured surveys -- Building survey -- Houses on the Mühlenstrasse, Havelberg, Germany -- Building archaeology -- Nidaros Cathedral, Trondheim, Norway -- Heubach Castle, Germany -- Balbarini townhouse, Pisa, Italy -- Bernhard chapel, Owen, Germany -- Schminke house, Löbau, Germany -- Structural survey -- Technical and material investigations -- Evaluation and interpretation - strengths and weaknesses -- Design strategies -- Designing with history -- Disposition -- Definition of appropriate function -- Municipal archives in the Church of San Agostin, Valladolid, Spain -- Sensitive interventions -- Tabourettli Theatre in the old Spalenhof, Basel, Switzerland -- Auxiliary constructions -- Bank in a 19th century building, Budapest, Hungary -- Design strategies -- Corrective maintenance -- Private residence, Venice, Italy -- Medieval house, Bamberg, Germany -- Modernisation -- Palazzo as museum, Venice, Italy -- Adaptation -- Loft in an industrial building, Madrid, Spain.

Conversion and extension of an industrial building, Göttelborn, Germany -- Hotel in a monastery church, Maastricht, Netherlands -- Tyrolean Museum of History, Tyrol Castle, Italy -- Single family houses, Utrecht, Netherlands -- Historic office building, Zurich, Switzerland -- Replacement -- Architectonic expression -- Correspondence -- Swimming pool, Spexhall Manor, Great Britain -- German Federal Foreign Office, Berlin, Germany -- Unification -- Fragmentation -- Town hall conversion and extension, Utrecht, Netherlands -- Nuevos Ministerios, Madrid, Spain -- Junction and delineation -- British Museum, Queen Elizabeth II Great Court, London, Great Britain -- Documentation centre of the former Nazi party rally ground, Germany -- Detail planning -- Prerequisites -- Development not demolition -- An element-for-element approach -- Library, Eichstätt, Germany -- Planning on the basis of an accurate measured survey -- Principles -- Repair not renew -- A cumulative process -- Naumburg City Museum, Germany -- Reclaimed materials -- Solutions: two examples -- Upgrading the thermal performance of windows -- Villa, Buchschlag, Germany -- Repairing timber roof structures -- Building works -- Site facilities -- The workshop principle -- Protective measures for building elements on site -- Heubach Castle, library and museum, Heubach, Germany -- Supervising building works -- Samples, tests and mock-ups -- Specifications and quantities -- Construction time and Costing -- Scheduling works -- Architect's fees -- Sustainability -- Facility Management -- Monitoring and maintenance -- Preserving property value -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index of architects -- Subject index -- Illustration credits -- On the authors.