Where can I learn about failed projects?

• Posted: Dec 8, 19 1:44 am

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• Buddhika Bandara Dec 8, 19 1:44 am  

  Is there a place to learn about failed architecture projects , sociologically, structurally, functionally.. etc. and explaining how it happened? For a masters student.

• Menona

  Dec 8, 19 9:35 am

   

  The Library.  Go and speak to a reference librarian and explain what you're researching and trying to find.  They can help you refine and direct your search.
  

• Buddhika Bandara

  Dec 8, 19 10:20 pm

   

  Thanks. I'm actually from an Asian country. We don't have the best archive libraries. Especially not on architecture and design :)

• Gonzalo Samaniego

  Dec 8, 19 5:34 pm

   

  The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs, and other relevant writings along the same lines. They might not give you a clear cut list of failed projects but they'll give you a framework of when and why some architectural/urban projects have failed.
  

• Buddhika Bandara

  Dec 8, 19 10:18 pm

   

  Thanks, this seems like an interesting read.

• a-f

  Dec 9, 19 1:08 am

   

  Failed Architecture obviously!

• Buddhika Bandara

  Dec 9, 19 5:30 am

   

  Thanks, this is what I'm looking for

• Menona

  Dec 9, 19 9:10 am

   

  Reference librarians can help you direct your online search, and they are aware of databases and digital journal access that you wouldn't know about or think of.  Not sure if that's how libraries are organized in Asia, but a lot of times they can find things hidden in places most people wouldn't think to look. 
  

• Buddhika Bandara

  Dec 10, 19 3:29 am

   

  Thanks :)

• Volunteer

  Dec 9, 19 11:18 am

   

  Much too broad a subject. Concentrate on one epic failure. The Grenfell Tower fire would be my recommendation. Massive failures by the U/K architectural establishment for greenlighting the flammable aluminum panel retrofit which claimed the lives of 72 people, many of them children along with their total inablity of that establishment to accept responsibility. 

  

  
  

• Buddhika Bandara

  Dec 10, 19 3:26 am

   

  Thanks. Will look into this .

• JLC-1

  Dec 9, 19 11:29 am

   

  "Architecture of the absurd, How genius disfigured a practical art" by John Silber. 

• tduds

  Dec 9, 19 11:49 am

   

  One of the dumbest books on architecture I've read. Silber is an arrogant stooge & his defense of traditionalism is no less subjective than his distaste for deconstructivism.

• Buddhika Bandara

  Dec 10, 19 3:25 am

   

  Interesting :) Now I have to read this :D

• Buddhika Bandara

  Dec 10, 19 3:29 am

   

  Thanks :)

• JLC-1

  Dec 9, 19 4:09 pm

   

  this website is good too, even if it focuses on one failed "genius"

  https://thefullcalatrava.wordpress.com/tag/calatravatelaclava-com/
  

• Buddhika Bandara

  Dec 10, 19 3:31 am

   

  Thanks :)

• Buddhika Bandara

  Dec 10, 19 3:31 am

   

  Thanks :)

• justavisual

  Dec 10, 19 4:50 am

   

  Ugly Belgian Houses

• JLC-1

  Dec 10, 19 10:16 am

   

  reminds me of the suburbs of kiev, but those are new.

• Buddhika Bandara

  Dec 12, 19 12:11 pm

   

  Thanks :)

• Erik Evens

  Dec 10, 19 1:47 pm

   

  "The Golden City" by Henry Hope Reed
  

• Buddhika Bandara

  Dec 12, 19 12:11 pm

   

  Thanks :)

• Archlandia

  Dec 10, 19 5:51 pm

   

  Any literature relating to Pruitt-Igoe is very interesting

• Buddhika Bandara

  Dec 12, 19 12:10 pm

   

  Thanks :)

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