First Additions -Strategies for Adding On

Stuart Cohen FAIA and Julie Hacker FAIA

Like many small residential practices Cohen & Hacker Architects have made a career of doing house additions. In a practice spanning almost forty years they have evolved strategies for making additions that represent both a theoretical and philosophical position about altering older buildings. They believe that recycling existing houses, retrofitting them to meet new energy standards, preserving their embodied energy as well as their cultural significance is the most sustainable way to practice architecture.

Cohen & Hacker’s remodeled architectural interiors transform these spaces with ideas taken from modern design, creating spatially open floor plans with traditional details based on the existing architecture.

Contains before and after floor plans and often exterior elevation drawings for every project. 

Hardbound, 276pp  9″ x 12″, Spring 2024