Transformation instead of demolition and new construction continuing development instead of
rupture: the principle of continuing the building process as an antidote to the modernist
new-build paradigm is increasingly moving into focus in architecture and construction
technology. It understands a building not so much as a product to be completed but as a
continuing process it focuses on the continuity of places and buildings and poses new
questions as to their completeness and authentic authorship their durability and
sustainability. The volume focuses on the technical and artistic processes of conversion and
adaptation as well as on the changing values and interpretation patterns of society that are
expressed in the new orientation of existing buildings by the continuation of the construction
process.
