Buildings must die : a perverse view of architecture /

• Main Author: Cairns, Stephen (συγγραφέας.)
• Other Authors: Jacobs, Jane M. 1958- (Jane Margaret)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014]
• Subjects: Αρχιτεκτονική > Θεωρία; Δομικά υλικά > Φθορά; Δημιουργία (Λογοτεχνική, καλλιτεχνική κλπ.) > Κοινωνικές απόψεις

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 subjec...

Table of 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.