Preserving with Purpose - discussion

Discussion Questions Preserving with Purpose Reimagining Buildings for Community Benefit By Amy Hetletvedt

Resources for incorporation into a historic preservation class

Read: Chapters 5 (Who Owns the Past?), 7 (Perils to Built Heritage), and 8 (Options for Involvement) in Stubbs, John H., Time Honored: A Global View of Architectural Conservation. Wiley. 2009.

Or relevant portions of course text material, plus: Chapters 1 – 3, 7, and 8 in Hetletvedt, Amy, Preserving with Purpose: Reimagining Buildings for Community Beneﬁt. Island Press. 2025

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Barriers in historic preservation standards and designation for disinvested communities

How preservationists can be a resource to communities

Considerations for historic preservation standard application and designation within disinvested communities

Ethical issues around the demolition or removal of historic resources in disinvested communities

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Preserving with Purpose - discussion

Published on Sep 15, 2025

Princeton University Press

Read the classroom discussion questions for historic preservation or architecture classes. https://islandpress.org/books/preserving-purpose#desc 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. Profiles and case studies are featured from around the world including Project Row Houses in Houston, Texas and Stony Island Arts Bank in Chicago, Illinois. Fifteen case studies cover a broader geographic range and are organized into three purposeful interventions: priority, practical and poetic. Preserving with Purpose is a compelling invitation into

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