Exceptional Libraries and Distinctive Architecture: Celebrating Reuse
This chapter traces some of the origins, developments and newer tendencies
in reuse architecture from the perspective of the architect. Furthermore,
it examines possible sustainability issues and qualities, beyond the obvious recycling
aspect, inherently rooted in the practice of reuse architecture. The chapter
also provides insight into some of the practical aspects of conversion and adaptive
reuse from the planning stage at the drawing board to the reality of the building
site, while maintaining a theoretical underpinning of this praxis, which the
author considers to be a genre of its own. Accompanying the theoretical and practical
overview, the chapter casts a critical eye over the relationship of formalised
historic preservation methods and traditions in relation to the growth and popularity
of reuse architecture and questions its future trajectory.
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