This special issue’s theme is on grafting strategies in architecture, which can be seen as threefold: reinvention asks the question of what old architecture can offer new; preservation implies that the value of history is for its own sake; and restoration suggests that the purpose of history is to interact with the present. Included are sixteen recent buildings where the designers have skilfully inserted new architecture into old, in the process addressing architecture’s relationship with time and our relationship with history.
With Rehabilitation of the Holy Speulchre Chapel / Hector Fernandez Elorza;Tea House in Hutong / Archstudio; Koya / SUMA; 366 Kashiracho / NAAD; New Sala Beckett / Flores _ Prats Architects; The Feuerle Collection / John Pawson; Miyagawa Bagel Shop / Roovice; Vigario House / AND-RE; Peraleda House / Losada Garcia Arquictectos; Fanquieros Apartment / CASCA; House Z22 and Warehouse F88 / Gus Wustermann Architects; House CG / Arc hitecten de Vylder Vinck Taillieu; Casa Gianin / Clinicaurbana; Rock Creek House / NADAAA; Kulm Eispavillon / Foster + Partners; Loft Panzerhalle / Smartvoll
