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Buildings Must Die: A Perverse View of Architecture

Buildings Must Die: A Perverse View of Architecture

Cairns, Stephen
Jacobs, Jane M.

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General Architecture

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ISBN10: 0262534711
ISBN13: 9780262534710
Publisher: Mit Pr
Published: Aug 11 2017
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.40
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
Part memento mori for architecture, and part invocation to reimagine the design values that lay at the heart of its creative purpose.

Buildings, although inanimate, are often assumed to have life. And the architect, through the act of design, is assumed to be their conceiver and creator. But what of the death of buildings? What of the decay, deterioration, and destruction to which they are inevitably subject? And what might such endings mean for architecture's sense of itself? In Buildings Must Die, Stephen Cairns and Jane Jacobs look awry at core architectural concerns. They examine spalling concrete and creeping rust, contemplate ruins old and new, and pick through the rubble of earthquake-shattered churches, imploded housing projects, and demolished Brutalist office buildings. Their investigation of the death of buildings reorders architectural notions of creativity, reshapes architecture's preoccupation with good form, loosens its vanities of durability, and expands its sense of value. It does so not to kill off architecture as we know it, but to rethink its agency and its capacity to make worlds differently.

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