Buildings must die
Subtitle: a perverse view of architecture
By: Stephen Cairns, Jane M. Jacobs
Contributors: Jacobs, Jane M. (Jane Margaret), 1958- author
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780262026932
Subjects: Architecture; Building materials; Deterioration; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.); Social aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-286) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: a feeling for the inert; title: Design, creativity and architecture's natalism; title: Terminal literacy: dross, rust and other architectural junk; title: Towards a general economy of architecture; title: Decay; title: Obsolescence; title: Disaster; title: Ruin; title: Demolition; title: Ecological horizons.