Buildings Must Die
A Perverse View of Architecture
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. Cairns and Jacobs offer an original contemplation of architecture that draws on theories of waste and value. Their richly illustrated case studies of building deaths include the planned and the unintended,…
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Weitere Autoren: Jacobs, Jane M (Professor of Urban Studies, Yale-NUS College)
- ISBN: 978-0-262-02693-2
- EAN: 9780262026932
- Produktnummer: 15510633
- Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 312 S.
- Masse: H24.1 cm x B15.7 cm x D3.1 cm 802 g
- Abbildungen: 50 b&w illus., 1 chart; 51 Illustrations, unspecified
- Gewicht: 802
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
Über den Autor
Stephen Cairns is Scientific Director of the Future Cities Laboratory at the Singapore-ETH Centre. Jane M. Jacobs is Professor of Urban Studies at Yale-NUS College, Singapore.
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