RE-USA: 20 American Stories of Adaptive Reuse

Energy and sustainability, Essay, expanding design practices, FULL, Matteo Robiglio, No Density, Politics and economics, Territory and mobility, Urban Paradigms

Adaptive reuse, Architect’s role, Architectural theory, Architecture’s challenge, Depopulation, Empowering society, Essay, Future Urban Legacy Lab, Industrial, Infrastructure, Italy, Participation, Preservation, Reconstruction, Regenerated industrial facility, Renewal, Teaching, Torino, Urban infrastructure, Urban Legacy, Urban Paradigms, Urban regeneration

Preface excerpt from the book "RE-USA: 20 American Stories of Adaptive Reuse", 2017.

Several tracks brought me to write this book.
The first one is biographical. A regular, well-educated student, fascinated by the irregular creativity of squatted places and the beauty of industrial icons, I grew up as an architect in during a time when my city – Torino, the powerhouse of Italian manufacturing – saw 100 million square feet of factories emptied of workers and production within a few years. The instinctive attraction for the opposite became a professional commitment to urban regeneration and architectural reuse projects and, eventually, daily living experience: these lines are written from my desk, in a former coffee factory in the core of industrial Torino, now home to my family.