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SUMMARY:Buildings Must Die: Discussion with the authors
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DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion with the authors of 'Buildings Must 
 Die: a perverse view of architecture' - Stephen Cairns (Singapore - ETH 
 Centre) and Jane M. Jacobs (Yale - NUS College) \n\nBuildings\, although
  inanimate\, are often assumed to have "life." And the architect\, throu
 gh the act of design\, is assumed to be their conceiver and creator. But
  what of the "death" of buildings? What of the decay\, deterioration\, a
 nd destruction to which they are inevitably subject? And what might such
  endings mean for architecture's sense of itself? In Buildings Must Die\
 , Stephen Cairns and Jane Jacobs look awry at core architectural concern
 s. They examine spalling concrete and creeping rust\, contemplate ruins 
 old and new\, and pick through the rubble of earthquake-shattered church
 es\, imploded housing projects\, and demolished Brutalist office buildin
 gs. Their 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 va
 lue. It does so not to kill off architecture as we know it\, but to reth
 ink its agency and its capacity to make worlds differently. Cairns and J
 acobs offer an original contemplation of architecture that draws on theo
 ries of waste and value. Their richly illustrated case studies of buildi
 ng "deaths" include the planned and the unintended\, the lamented and th
 e celebrated. They take us from Moline to Christchurch\, from London to 
 Bangkok\, from Tokyo to Paris. And they feature the work of such archite
 cts as Eero Saarinen\, Carlo Scarpa\, Cedric Price\, Arata Isozaki\, Rem
  Koolhaas and Francois Roche. Buildings Must Die is both a memento mori 
 for architecture and a call to to reimagine the design values that lay a
 t the heart of its creative purpose.
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CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:G30-31\, Arthur Lewis Building\, Manchester
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