Buildings Must Die: A Perverse View of Architecture

Logan, Cameron

doi:10.1080/13264826.2016.1224908

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“…Furthermore, in addition to its architectural importance, the sanatorium possesses significant historical value [27] (p. 3), functioning as a center for medical research and innovation, and receiving considerable funding from government resources. However, as subsequent advancements in tuberculosis treatment rendered the institution obsolete [31], its purpose was no longer necessary and it eventually faced closure and was later abandoned, marking the end of an era in CR's medical history.…”

Section: Intangible Valuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Conservation Strategy for the Sanatorio Carlos Duran Cartín in Costa Rica

Sibaja Matamoros,

Garzulino

2024

Architecture

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The Sanatorio Carlos Duran Cartín in Costa Rica is a noteworthy example of tuberculosis sanatorium architecture. Positioned within the broader context of Latin American architectural heritage conservation, the research pays specific attention to tuberculosis sanatoriums as a prevalent architectural typology from the early 1900s to the 1940s. Its historical and cultural significance is explored through contextualizing its architectural value and identifying current challenges and conservation needs. Using archival documents and photographic evidence, the study aimed to delineate tangible and intangible values associated with the complex, thus justifying the need for its preservation and safeguarding. Furthermore, the study aimed to establish guidelines and a conceptual framework for a conservation strategy designed for the Sanatorio Duran.

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Section: Intangible Valuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Conservation Strategy for the Sanatorio Carlos Duran Cartín in Costa Rica

Sibaja Matamoros,

Garzulino

2024

Architecture

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“…But the project took a different route that was informed by the understanding that the solution in architecture does not always lie in big moves that rely on architectural "natalism" concerning only creativity and permanence. 24 In their thought-provoking book, Buildings Must Die: A Perverse View of Architecture, Stephen Cairns and Jane M. Jacobs challenge the conventional notion that buildings are static and unchanging. 25 Rather, they argue that buildings are alive in the sense that they exist according to a recognizable lifespan and that the language we use to describe them should reflect this reality.…”

Section: The Projectmentioning

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The fluid futures of multi-layered histories: many lives of North Brother Island, New York City

Erdoğan

2023

Res Mobilis

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The transience of populations reflects itself as the life cycle of the buildings. Constantly changing dynamics in the entities of a building also constantly effects the fate of the structure. Even with the proper treatment, the loss of its compatibility in functions with the deterioration of a structure becomes inevitable with the forces of various humanitarian, natural and ecological crises. The examined case that has experienced several phases of ephemerality in its lifetime is the North Brother Island in NYC that people abandoned more than half a century ago. In its many lives, the island has been a quarantine island, the site of one of the deadliest maritime accidents, a last resort housing solution for WWI veterans, and a forced rehabilitation center for young drug addicts. Today the island is occupied with a few abandoned public buildings, which are remnants of its troublesome past, and innumerable plants that have taken over the land after everyone left. And now it is facing its proclaimed sinking that is going to be happening in 100 years. This project is for the treatment of a more than human community in the isolated jungle off the coast of the dense cosmopolitan NYC. In an era defined by the environmental and climatic crises, architecture’s long-standing obsession with monumental and immortal buildings has to leave a way for a humbler approach intending to provide habitats for more than one entity in the cycle of life. The design method to answer this problem is to consciously re-creating places on the island by using de-constructed materials from the former buildings of the island with the addition of biodegradable ones. By their dissolving in nature after the sinking, only the skeletons of the structure will remain as a ruin, but also as a new home for underwater life. In conclusion, this approach envisions a safe environment for nature and humans through the different stages of the island until the inevitable yet not to be feared sinking of the island, which will further become the starting point of the new urban infrastructure of underwater life.

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“…These kinds of temporal alterations are, of course, not confined to prison buildings (Cairns & jacobs, 2014;Schmidt & Austin, 2016), but tracing such changes and processes of inhabitation in "closed" built environments is challenging, and existing sources are scant. However, it is clear that before the Victorian era was over, its prisons had already been subject to numerous material changes.…”

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The Persistence of the Victorian Prison: Alteration, Inhabitation, Obsolescence, and Affirmative Design

2022

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Prior scholarship tracing the origins and architecture of prisons has tended to focus on how and why prisons are built—what they are intended to achieve and their construction as an expression of the punitive philosophies of their age. It does not consider how prisons persist as time passes, perhaps beyond their anticipated operational life span, and into “obsolescence.” Focusing on the archetypal Victorian prison, and considering the alteration and inhabitation of such prisons through time, this article critically reinterprets notions of obsolescence in the built environment and explores an enduring cultural attachment to a particular and arguably archaic material manifestation of punishment.

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Buildings Must Die: A Perverse View of Architecture

Cited by 5 publications

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A Conservation Strategy for the Sanatorio Carlos Duran Cartín in Costa Rica

A Conservation Strategy for the Sanatorio Carlos Duran Cartín in Costa Rica

The fluid futures of multi-layered histories: many lives of North Brother Island, New York City

The Persistence of the Victorian Prison: Alteration, Inhabitation, Obsolescence, and Affirmative Design

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