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• ISBN 10: 022631359X
• ISBN 13: 9780226313597
• Author: Daniel M. Abramson

In our architectural pursuits, we often seem to be in search of something newer, grander, or more efficient—and this phenomenon is not novel. In the spring of 1910 hundreds of workers labored day and night to demolish the Gillender Building in New York, once the loftiest office tower in the world, in order to make way for a taller skyscraper. The New York Times puzzled over those who would sacrifice the thirteen-year-old structure, “as ruthlessly as though it were some ancient shack.” In New York alone, the Gillender joined the original Grand Central Terminal, the Plaza Hotel, the Western Union Building, and the Tower Building on the list of just one generation’s razed metropolitan monuments. In the innovative and wide-ranging Obsolescence, Daniel M. Abramson investigates this notion of architectural expendability and the logic by which buildings lose their value and utility.

Table of contents:

1 Inventing Obsolescence

2 Urban Obsolescence

3 The Promise of Obsolescence

4 Fixing Obsolescence

5 Reversing Obsolescence

6 Sustainability and Beyond

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