Intervening in an old architectural structure means demonstrating respect combined with courage and a deep sense of the need for continuity. The appropriation of the old aligns with today's conditions: the opening of the horizon of knowledge, therefore also the breadth of choices, the continuous expansion of the reference system, and the acquisition of a multifaceted character.
Consequently, it abolishes and re-establishes the local as a concept. How do we assess the process of reusing old buildings? Anyone studying the specific publications, with a wealth of information on the technical aspects of the work, the lengthy analyses of the existing situation, and the restoration-promotion measures that were applied, realizes that this work has its own closed system of values upon which it can be described and judged.
As the science of adding new uses to old shells becomes more established, with specialized studies, materials, and language, the autonomy of actions will be increasingly required. The outcome is judged solely as a process of preservation and restoration under its strict rules, and it hardly falls under the general and unified method of regulating architectural practice.
Consequently, the evaluation of the work as an architectural creation in itself is lacking or completely absent. [...] (from the book's preface)
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