Cairns, Stephen

Buildings must die : a perverse view of architecture / Stephen Cairns and Jane M Jacobs - Cambridge : MIT Press, 2014. - x, 298 p. : ill.

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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Building materials--Deterioration
Architecture
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) --Social aspects
Building materials--Deterioration

720.1 / CAI-B