Buildings Must Die: A Perverse View of Architecture

by Jane M. Jacobs, Stephen Cairns, Jane M Jacobs

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262534711
• ISBN13: 9780262534710
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher