The Architecture of Ruins: Designs on the Past, Present and Future

by Jonathan Hill

The Architecture of Ruins: Designs on the Past, Present and Future identifies an alternative and significant history of architecture from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first century, in which a building is designed, occupied and imagined as a ruin. This design practice conceives a monument and a ruin as creative, interdependent and simultaneous themes within a single building dialectic, addressing temporal and environmental questions in poetic,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138367788
• ISBN13: 9781138367784
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.8" x 9.7"