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While most architecture projects are invested in exploring different and novel processes to produce architecture, few works have attempted to speculate on architecture's subsequent endings. The academic and professional discussions of architecture have focused on its "natalist" ambitions and a general indifference towards the ultimate death of buildings has pervaded architectural production. While we may think of buildings as enduring cultural artifacts ,in reality, they decay and perish at far shorter intervals than often expected. The average lifespan of conventional structures before the modern movement was around 120 years. Modern materials and assemblies radically changed the way buildings aged, averaging half the former construction's life expectancy. This thesis proposes to challenge conventional practice and thought structures, which reinforce this separation between architecture and time.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2020

Author dc:creator

• Casalduc Rivera, Gustavo Carlos.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Sheila Kennedy.

• Architecture.

Statement dc:rights

• MIT theses may be protected by copyright. Please reuse MIT thesis content according to the MIT Libraries Permissions Policy, which is available through the URL provided.

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/129865

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/129865