Buildings must die : a perverse view of architecture /
Stephen Cairns, Jane M. Jacobs.
- x, 298 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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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Architecture. Building materials--Deterioration. Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)--Social aspects.