Author

Publication

2015 - Architectural Association, London, England

Language

English

Word Count

31,750 words, Guess

Page Count

127 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-101907896694
  • ISBN-139781907896699
  • Library of Congress Control Number2016417953
  • OCLC Control Number960642196
  • OCLC Control Number964907969
and 2 more
  • Better World Books9781907896699
  • Open LibraryOL44498118M

Classifications

  • DDC720.973
  • LCCNA712.7 .C36 2016
  • LCCNA4825 .R578 2016
and 1 more
  • LCCNA712.7

Description

This book explores the notion of architectural obsolescence through a study of the contemporary United States. While the US was the world's greatest economic, scientific and cultural force during the twentieth century, it now appears to be obsessed with its own decline. In this obsession the changing patterns of consumption and demand often result in an architectural redundancy where buildings exist as a form of by-product or residue. While our stereotypical image of the US reflects the heroic potential of production, this book examines the opposite of that which isn't work. Or, more pointedly, those abandoned pleasures and lost paradises that remain when then no longer any work left to define them.

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