When it comes to architecture, the firm Austin + Mergold, based in Philadelphia and Ithaca, New York, doesn't see a lot of sense in reinventing the wheel.
“I like the word spolia a lot,” says principal Aleksandr Mergold, referring to the reuse of discarded building materials in late antiquity. “We often imagine ourselves like the guys in Rome recently sacked, going through the rubble,” he says. “But we are going to the Home Depot.”
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