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Автор: Cairns Stephen, Jacobs Jane M.
Название: Buildings Must Die: A Perverse View of Architecture
ISBN: 0262534711 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780262534710
Издательство: MIT Press
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Part memento mori for architecture, and part invocation to reimagine the design values that lay at the heart of its creative purpose.

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 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 concerns. They examine 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. 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 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.

Cairns and Jacobs offer an original contemplation of architecture that draws on theories of waste and value. Their richly illustrated case studies of building "deaths" include the planned and the unintended, the lamented and the celebrated. They take us from Moline to Christchurch, from London to Bangkok, from Tokyo to Paris. And they feature the work of such architects 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 at the heart of its creative purpose.

Автор: Harrigan Stephen
Название: Jacob`s Well
ISBN: 0292758154 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780292758155
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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Автор: Jacobs, James Hoskins, Vanessa Radley-macfarland, Stephen
Название: Pathfinder adventure path: abomination vaults special edition (p2)
ISBN: 164078411X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781640784116
Издательство: Diamond Books
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Описание: Investigates interconnections between space and violence throughout the twentieth century, and how such connections informed collective memory. This volume shows how entangled notions of time and space amplified by memory narratives led to continuities of violence across different conflicts creating `terrortimes` and `terrorscapes` in their wake.

Автор: Jacobs, James Hoskins, Vanessa Radney-macfarland, Stephen
Название: Pathfinder adventure path: abomination vaults (p2)
ISBN: 1640784101 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781640784109
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Описание: Investigates interconnections between space and violence throughout the twentieth century, and how such connections informed collective memory. This volume shows how entangled notions of time and space amplified by memory narratives led to continuities of violence across different conflicts creating `terrortimes` and `terrorscapes` in their wake.

Автор: Goldsmith Stephen A., Elizabeth Lynne
Название: What We See: Advancing the Observations of Jane Jacobs
ISBN: 098155931X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780981559315
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Цена: 35110.00 T
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A timely revisitation of renowned urbanist-activist Jane Jacobs' lifework, What We See invites thirty pundits and practitioners across fields to refresh Jacobs' economic, social and urban planning theories for the present day. Combining personal and professional observations with meditations on Jacobs' insights, essayists bring their diverse experience to bear to sketch the blueprints for the living city.
The book models itself after Jacobs' collaborative approach to city and community building, asking community members and niche specialists to share their knowledge with a broader community, to work together toward a common goal of building the 21st-century city.
The resulting collection of original essays expounds and expands Jacobs' ideas on the qualities of a vibrant, robust urban area. It offers the generalist, the activist, and the urban planner practical examples of the benefits of planning that encourages community participation, pedestrianism, diversity, environmental responsibility, and self-sufficiency.
Bob Sirman, director of the Canada Council for the Arts, describes how built form should be an embodiment of a community narrative. Daniel Kemmis, former Mayor of Missoula, shares an imagined dialog with Jacobs, discussing the delicate interconnection between cities and their surrounding rural areas. And Roberta Brandes Gratz?urban critic, author, and former head of Public Policy of the New York State Preservation League?asserts the importance of architectural preservation to environmentally sound urban planning practices.
What We See asks us all to join the conversation about next steps for shaping socially just, environmentally friendly, and economically prosperous urban communities.