recycling architecture

Because architecture is the art of space and space is never wasted, there is no need to say that is recycled. Also, it does not require a strategy or an exercise of goodwill. Life itself recycles architecture. Architecture is never purely and simply original. On the contrary, very little architecture is original; it feeds off the existent. There is no tabula rasa - architecture always has to be aware of numerous programs, desires, forces, and other existent circumstances. If we add to this recycling, that in itself requires cerrtain specific environmental considerations, the entire problem seems irrelevant. An art that is so absolutely pragmatic, as is architecture, imperturbably flirts with (what in other disciplines would be considered a trick) a genuine publicity promotion.

{Federico Soriano}