Manipulated Traces: Architectural Post-Productions’ Contemporary Techniques
Interventions on existing buildings are increasing every day. The actions do not
only affect buildings to be preserved for their history or importance, but also
“Tiers-Paysage”: in other words, abandoned or marginal residual places and
buildings become objects of interest. The object of intervention – once the
spirit of conservation is abandoned in spite of re-use and the sacredness of the
existing building – becomes manipulable, overwritable, making the waste as
activator of imagination. Is it possible today to define an architectural language