Cairns, Stephen,

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.

NA2540 / .C32 2014

720.1 / CAI