‘Third Principle: The post-war city must create the new from the damaged old. Many of the buildings in the war-damaged city are…
‘ Third Principle: The post-war city must create the new from the damaged old. Many of the buildings in the war-damaged city are relatively salvageable, and because the finances of individuals and remaining institutions have been depleted by war and its privations, that salvageable building stock must be used to build the ‘new’ city. And because the new ways of living will not be the same as the old, the reconstruction of old buildings must enable new ways and ideas of living. The familiar old must be transformed, by conscious intention and design, into the unfamiliar new.’
- Lebbeus Woods, from Radical Reconstruction 1997. Sketches by Woods.