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Author: Matteo Robiglio

Preface excerpt from the book RE-USA: 20 American Stories of Adaptive Reuse

RE-USA: 20 American Stories of Adaptive Reuse

Several tracks brought me to write this book.

The first one is biographical. A regular, well-educated student, fascinated by the irregular creativity of squatted places and the beauty of industrial icons, I grew up as an architect in during a time when my city – Torino, the powerhouse of Italian manufacturing – saw 100 million square feet of factories emptied of workers and production within a few years. The instinctive attraction for the opposite became a professional commitment to urban regeneration and architectural reuse projects and, eventually, daily living experience: these lines are written from my desk, in a former coffee factory in the core of industrial Torino, now home to my family.

Lingotto Building, Torino, Italy

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Author: Matteo Robiglio

Preface excerpt from the book RE-USA: 20 American Stories of Adaptive Reuse

urbanNext (September 23, 2023) RE-USA: 20 American Stories of Adaptive Reuse. Retrieved from https://urbannext.net/re-usa-preface/.
RE-USA: 20 American Stories of Adaptive Reuse.” urbanNext – September 23, 2023, https://urbannext.net/re-usa-preface/
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RE-USA: 20 American Stories of Adaptive Reuse.” urbanNext [Online]. Available: https://urbannext.net/re-usa-preface/. [Accessed: September 23, 2023]

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