BUILDINGS MUST DIE

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 inevi tably subject? And what might such endings mean for architecture's sense of itself? In Buildings Must Die, Stephen Cairns and Jane J acobs look awry at core architectural concerns. They examine spalling concrete and creeping rust, contemplate ruins old and new, and pick thr...[Read more]