Edited by Stephen Bates, Bruno Krucker and Katharina Leuschner

Building Register is a research programme which examines historically significant buildings as references within the current architectural debate on housing and urbanism. The programme takes the form of a series of surveys documenting both the general characteristics of projects and selected areas of de­tailed study.

The buildings are explored both at the urban scale and in detail, at the level of a single room or construction assembly. This may include the internal structure of a large residential complex in relation to its urban form, or the defining presence of a material or detail in view of the effect they have on the urban context.

The second series of Studio Krucker Bates' investigation of historical buildings includes:

Beguinage, Kortrijk

Fuggerei, Augsburg

Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire

Hornbaekhus, Copenhagen

Parc Plein Soleil, Geneva