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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Preserving with Purpose: Reimagining Buildings for Community Benefit

Preserving with Purpose: Reimagining Buildings for Community Benefit

Hetletvedt, Amy

Paperback

General Architecture

ISBN10: 1642833487
ISBN13: 9781642833485
Publisher: Island Press
Published: Nov 4 2025
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.57
Height: 0.57 Width: 8.05 Depth: 8.94
Language: English

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.

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