Buildings must die : a perverse view of architecture / Stephen Cairns, Jane M. Jacobs.
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TextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014]Description: x, 298 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780262026932 Subject(s): Architecture | Building materials -- Deterioration | Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) -- Social aspectsDDC classification: 720.1 LOC classification: NA2540 | .C32 2014
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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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-286) and index.
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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