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While prominent buildings
like 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
loss of structures, but of the
stories and the embedded possibilities that the buildings represent.
In Preserving with Purpose:
Reimagining Buildings for Community Benefit, architect Amy Hetletvedt unfolds a
revolutionary-but-simple vision for re-thinking building conservation in vulnerable communities.
It begins with the
question: what can be done now-in circumstances or communities when restoration is not wholly fundable, not possible, or
potentially not even desirable?
Hetletvedt explores contextual approaches to existing buildings in disinvested communities as an alternative to demolition, explains why these buildings matter, and what communities and professionals can make of
them, together. Preserving With Purpose
features profiles and case studies from around
the world. Four profiles focus on places facing the challenges of vacancy and abandonment which have, over time, reimagined buildings using the approaches described in the book. The profiles
include Project Row Houses in Houston, Texas;
The Dorchester
Projects
and Stony Island
Arts Bank in Chicago, Illinois; Menokin
in Warsaw, Virginia and the
Granby Four Streets in Liverpool, England. Fifteen case studies cover a broader geographic range and are organized into three purposeful interventions: priority, practical and poetic.
Professionals and community members are encouraged to
approach historic buildings creatively and collaboratively; to invest in strategic mending that not only addresses buildings but benefits communities. Preserving with Purpose is a compelling invitation into the beautiful and fruitful middle-ground
between ruin and restoration.
