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Evanescent Event: Using the Olympic City as a Catalyst for Change in Post-Industrial Cities.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Evanescent Event: Using the Olympic City as a Catalyst for Change in Post-Industrial Cities.
Author:	Weinstein, Amanda.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017
Description:	110 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 57-04.
Notes:	Advisers: Vikramaditya Prakash; Robert Mugerauer.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International57-04(E).
Subject:	Architecture.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10686862
ISBN:	9780355597141

Evanescent Event: Using the Olympic City as a Catalyst for Change in Post-Industrial Cities.
Weinstein, Amanda.

Evanescent Event: Using the Olympic City as a Catalyst for Change in Post-Industrial Cities. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 110 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 57-04.

Thesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2017.

How can we become a progressive culture when we can not bear the thought of tearing our buildings down? Is our desire for permanence our greatest weakness? The architecture industry is slowly coming to terms with the future of buildings being designated ten or fifteen year buildings. What does this mean to the modern designer? At what point does a building lose its purpose? As we lose land area due to population growth, climate change, and other factors, the solution to a lack of land could be understanding how to properly demolish existing structures. If structures are built to be broken down, the process is more palatable and affordable, while offering its pieces as new material for use. This concept becomes preservation through memory, spatial cues, and academic rather than physical histories.

ISBN: 9780355597141Subjects--Topical Terms:

208437
Architecture.

Evanescent Event: Using the Olympic City as a Catalyst for Change in Post-Industrial Cities.
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520 $a Within these pages is a glance at a counterpoint to monumental buildings, and a proposal for the re-integration of sites and materials into the fabric from where they came. As a pinnacle of unused monuments, Olympic Stadiums and their associated villages are the structures of focus; have they not lost their purpose after three months of hosting Olympic and paralympic games? Olympic stadiums and their surrounding infrastructure systems seem to be just as expensive to maintain, and while their price tags are normally paid off by investors and developers, it is just as often that the burden falls onto local taxpayers, who could be facing the bill for up to thirty years, as was the case after the 1976 Olympics in Montreal.
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