Buildings Born Ruins: Philosophy and Architecture After the Apocalypse - Failed Architecture
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Buildings Born Ruins: Philosophy and Architecture After the Apocalypse - Failed Architecture
with ruin a city comes to death, but a generative death like the corpse that feeds flowers.
Rebecca Solnit • A Field Guide to Getting Lost
“we can’t save the world, we can only save places.”
Daniel Christian Wahl • Building a regenerative future
The current theory of property is generating ecological destruction, ecological waste. How can we reimagine the house as an agent? The house having agency.
Jordan Hall • Conversation with Indy Johar - 1.
When ruins become places for celebration and growth, they challenge the narrative of inevitable decay. They offer us the chance to cultivate Lefebrve’s ideas of “the right to the city” through the experience of everyday inhabitation.
Joanna Hoffman • Futures From Ruins
Ruins have inspired similar kinds of objectification for millennia. For many, they’re visual objects, things to romanticize, fetishize and look at from afar. It’s a simplified way of seeing that lends itself to extraction more than engagement, a kind “over-aestheticization of past eras." Henri Lefebvre explored the phenomenon in 1968, writing ... See more
Joanna Hoffman • Futures From Ruins
an ostensible pause that instead merely extends, and in many ways exacerbates, the injustices of our society and the inadequacies of our ways of conceptualizing and modeling city life.