| Description |
x, 298 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
This book discusses core architectural concerns. It examines spalling concrete and creeping rust, contemplate ruins old and new, and pick through the rubble of earthquake-shattered churches, imploded housing projects, and demolished Brutalist office buildings. Its investigation of the death of buildings reorders architectural notions of creativity, reshapes architecture's preoccupation with good form, loosens its vanities of durability, and expands its sense of value. It does so not to kill off architecture as we know it, but to rethink its agency and its capacity to make worlds differently |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Architecture.
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Building materials -- Deterioration.
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Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) -- Social aspects.
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| Author |
Jacobs, Jane M. (Jane Margaret), 1958- author
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| LC no. |
2013028480 |
| ISBN |
0262026937 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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9780262026932 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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