Preserving with Purpose : Reimagining Buildings for Community Benefit

Princeton University Press

Preserving with PurposeReimagining Buildings for Community Benefit\nAuthor(s): Amy Hetletvedt\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Island Press, United States\nImprint: Island Press\nISBN-13: 9781642833485, 978-1642833485\nSynopsis\nWhile prominent buildings\nlike Notre Dame in Paris rise from the ashes, historic buildings in disinvested communities are lost at an alarming rate. The resulting holes in the fabric of the community are not only a\nloss of structures, but of the\nstories and the embedded possibilities that the buildings represent.\n\nIn Preserving with Purpose:\nReimagining Buildings for Community Benefit, architect Amy Hetletvedt unfolds a\nrevolutionary-but-simple vision for re-thinking building conservation in vulnerable communities.\nIt begins with the\n\nquestion: what can be done now-in circumstances or communities when restoration is not wholly fundable, not possible, or\npotentially not even desirable?\n\nHetletvedt explores contextual approaches to existing buildings .