revival-reform

Revival and reform are both terms which borrow from the past . When reforming you are making changes to something  that improve upon it's current state. When a revival occurs you are looking  back to something from the past, bringing it back in to activity. 

     Reform is an important concept for design. Design and architecture borrow from the past all the time but sometimes there are improvements that can be made. Perhaps a designer is inspired by a home design from the past and wants to borrow from that design to create something current. Many homes from previous periods would have a floor plan that wouldn't work for today's families, and would need to be reformed. In this case the designer is able to look to the past for inspiration and then improve the design to make it more functional for today.