Re-readings: 2

Foreword

This is timely – as was volume 1. Rereadings volume 1 emerged over ten years ago in 2004 and quickly made its mark as a perceptive and intelligent review of how the skill of putting buildings to reuse was becoming – at last – a field of work worthy of separate study, separate from architecture and separate from interior design. A wide trawl found examples of then current projects covering the full breadth of options, from the familiar to the unexpected, from the gentle to the radical, from the ponderous to the quirky. These were used as case studies that collectively were to demonstrate that the separation from architecture was legitimate and useful, and that it was ready for analysis within its own terms of reference. It had come of ...