Increasingly new architecture emerges in buildings that already exist. Re-use and appropriation requires an fundamentally different approach to designing spaces and buildings. This lecture examines strategies of storytelling, human archeology and image-making in contemporary European cities.

Christoph Grafe *, Associate Professor Architectural Design / Interiors at the Faculty of Architecture, Delft University of Technology, External examiner MA Advanced Architecture & Interior Design, London Metropolitan University, Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Architecture (published on behalf of the Royal Institute of British Architects by Routledge), Editor of OASE (architectural journal, NAi publishers Rotterdam), director of the Flemish Architecture Institute (Vai), Lecturer in Zürich (Switzerland), Limerick (Ireland), Stockholm, Göteborg (Sweden), Rotterdam (Holland).