Preserving with Purpose by Amy Hetletvedt Architecture from design to maintenance and

from design to maintenance and from field staff to executives

Sometimes it's hard to rest in peace

but are too often abandoned or sold

And it’s that struggle that gives the book its original structure: each chapter is driven by its own narrative trope—the haunted house

and some great twists that kept me guessing

Preserving with Purpose by Amy Hetletvedt Architecture from design to maintenance andWhile 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