on 6/21/05 12:07 AM, Ron May at [log in to unmask] wrote:

> Fellow HISTARCHers,
>
> This evening I attended a meeting at which an architect and his developer
> team proposed the preservation of the exterior facade of a building, then
> gutting
> the interior, roof, interior walls, ripping the earth below, and creating a
> modern building beneath the old skin of the building. How do you feel about
> gutting an historic building? Is this consistent with the Secretary of the
> Interior's Standards?
>
> Ron May
> Legacy 106, Inc.
List Folks -

    Historic architects often refer to this practice as "facadomy...."
Nonetheless, I guess it does (to a certain degree) preserve streetscape, and
is certainly common to the ambivalence of many on the urban East Coast.
Better than nothing?

Joe Dent
American University