Buildings Must Die: A Perverse View of Architecture (MIT Press)
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| Rating | : | 4.29 (711 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0262534711 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 312 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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Jane M. Stephen Cairns is Scientific Director of the Future Cities Laboratory at the Singapore-ETH Centre. Jacobs is Professor of Urban Studies at Yale-NUS College, Singapore.
" Buildings Must Die is indeed a perverse work on architecture, architecture at its most raw and elemental, at the point of its decay and destruction, sometimes quickly, with spectacular effect, and sometimes slowly. Historically significant themes such as ruin and weathering are discussed, also topics that are particularly relevant today: disaster, demolition, and waste. Architecture is never fully living, and is always passing out of existence; as it makes, so what it makes is inevitably unmade. (Times Higher Education) . (Elizabeth Grosz, author of Architecture from the Outside)Buildings rot. A fuller u
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 take us from Moline to Christchurch, from London to Bangkok, from Tokyo to Paris. 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. Cairns and Jacobs offer an original contemplation of architecture that draws on theories of waste and value. 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 richly illustrated case studies of building "deaths" include the planned and the unintended, the lamented and the celebrated. Buildin
Wright Fan said Huge disappointment. Most tedious book I've had since college (Huge disappointment Wright Fan Most tedious book I've had since college (40+ years). It is written like a philosophy doctoral paper - all references to other, heretofore unheard-of architectural philosophers. I wonder if the people who wrote the splendid reviews on the back cover actually read the book. I've tried and tried and tried to re. 0+ years). It is written like a philosophy doctoral paper - all references to other, heretofore unheard-of architectural philosophers. I wonder if the people who wrote the splendid reviews on the back cover actually read the book. I've tried and tried and tried to re. Four Stars Angela H.Kim good. Excellent book. Very scholarly and insightful! Excellent book.