Buildings must die : a perverse view of architecture / Stephen Cairns, Jane M. Jacobs

Author: Cairns, Stephen
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014]
Physical Description: x, 298 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Additional Creators: Jacobs, Jane M. (Jane Margaret), 1958-

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Contents

Introduction: a feeling for the inert -- Design, creativity and architecture's natalism -- Terminal literacy: dross, rust and other architectural junk -- Towards a general economy of architecture -- Decay -- Obsolescence -- Disaster -- Ruin -- Demolition -- Ecological horizons.

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Architecture
Building materials—Deterioration
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)—Social aspects

ISBN

9780262026932 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0262026937 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Buildings must die : a perverse view of architecture / Stephen Cairns, Jane M. Jacobs

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