Buildings Must Die
A Perverse View of Architecture
$81.47
- Paperback
312 pages
- Release Date
11 August 2017
Summary
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262534710 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262534711 |
| Author: | Stephen Cairns, Jane M. Jacobs |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 312 |
| Release Date: | 11 August 2017 |
| Weight: | 446g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 24mm |
| Series: | Buildings Must Die |
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Imagine a book on world leaders that looks at how they died, rather than their accomplishments, for an explanation of why the book’s subtitle acknowledges that this perspective is ‘perverse’. Despite and perhaps even because of these quirks, Buildings Must Die has the freshness of a project that takes a field and turns it on its head—or, perhaps, blows it up.
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Stephen Cairns
Stephen Cairns is Programme Director of the Future Cities Laboratory at the Singapore-ETH Centre.Jane M. Jacobs is Director of the Division of Social Sciencesand Professor of Urban Studies at Yale-NUS College, Singapore.
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