Buildings Must Die

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Buildings Must Die

Buildings Must Die written by Stephen Cairns and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-11 with Architecture categories.

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. 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, the lamented and the celebrated. They take us from Moline to Christchurch, from London to Bangkok, from Tokyo to Paris. And they feature the work of such architects as Eero Saarinen, Carlo Scarpa, Cedric Price, Arata Isozaki, Rem Koolhaas and François Roche. Buildings Must Die is both a memento mori for architecture and a call to to reimagine the design values that lay at the heart of its creative purpose.

Engineering Building Record And The Sanitary Engineer

Engineering Building Record And The Sanitary Engineer written by Henry Coddington Meyer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1891 with Building categories.

The Engineering Record Building Record The Sanitary Engineer

The Engineering Record Building Record The Sanitary Engineer written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1891 with Architecture categories.

Reports On Public Buildings

Reports On Public Buildings written by New South Wales. Parliament. Standing Committee on Public Works and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1888 with categories.

The Country Home

The Country Home written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1911 with Country life categories.

Architecture And Building

Architecture And Building written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1893 with Architecture categories.

Annual Report Of The Secretary To The Board Of Regents

Annual Report Of The Secretary To The Board Of Regents written by University of California. Secretary and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1884 with categories.

Central Reporter

Central Reporter written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1887 with Law reports, digests, etc categories.

Building

Building written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1949 with Building categories.

Church Building Quarterly

Church Building Quarterly written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1895 with Church architecture categories.

Includes the annual reports of the American Congregational Union, and of the society under its later name, the Congregational Church-Building Society.