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Tactics of reconstructing the past: Recent residential practice

Our houses are connected to the past in diverse and complex ways. For most people, the experience of domestic space is polytemporal: interiors become the repositories of things old and new, while routine maintenance and periodic renovation tend to punctuate the passage of time rather than erase it. This is to say that we cohabitate with the past – an idea that establishes the broader backdrop for this essay and against which I want to survey just some of the ways in which recent residential architecture has reckoned with history, with built heritage, and with the forms and fabric of buildings that linger with us from other times. To be clear, my concern here is not with heritage and preservation per

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