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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. The idea that the new necessarily outperforms and makes superfluous the old, Abramson argues, helps people come to terms with modernity and capitalism's fast-paced change. Obsolescence, then, gives an unsettling experience purpose and meaning. Belief in obsolescence, as Abramson shows, also profoundly affects architectural design. In the 1960s, many architects worldwide accepted the inevitability of obselescence, experimenting with flexible, modular designs, from open-plan schools, offices, labs, and museums to vast megastructural frames and indeterminate building complexes. Some architects went so far as to embrace obsolescence's liberating promise to cast aside convention and habit, envisioning expendable short-life buildings that embodied human choice and freedom. Others, we learn, were horrified by the implications of this ephemerality and waste, and their resistance eventually set the stage for our turn to sustainability the conservation rather than disposal of resources. Abramson's fascinating tour of our idea of obsolescence culminates in an assessment of recent manifestations of sustainability, from adaptive reuse and historic preservation to postmodern and green design, which all struggle to comprehend and manage the changes that challenge us on all sides.

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Historiens, architectes, urbanistes ont contribué très largement à la connaissance de Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, dit Le Corbusier, qui, par la place phare qu’il a occupée dans la production architecturale, artistique et urbanistique mondiale, ne laisse personne indifférent. Cependant le bilan social des réalisations de ce grand architexte n’a que très rarement fait l’objet d’une expertise sociologique. Comment vit-on dans l’architecture de Le Corbusier ? Quelles implications ses conceptions urbanistiques ont-elles eues sur la vie des habitants ? L’architecture moderne a-t-elle répondu à ses promesses ainsi qu’aux attentes des utilisateurs ? Deux ans d’enquête auprès des habitants de la Maison Radieuse de Rezé, une des cinq unités d’habitation de grandeur conforme réalisées par Le Corbusier, ont permis de confronter les conceptions de l’architecte à la réalité des pratiques habitantes. L’étude explore les modes de vie, les choix résidentiels, les aménagements, les sociabilités, les rapports à l’environnement paysager et urbain dans une perspective de comparaison avec les projets et les théories de Le Corbusier. Elle invite à entrer à l’intérieur d’une unité pour comprendre comment on y a vécu pendant ces cinquante dernières années et comment on y vit encore au quotidien. La recherche met en évidence le rapport identitaire des habitants à la Maison Radieuse, voire à l’architecture et à l’architecte ; elle montre comment les grandes transformations sociales et économiques du XXe siècle rencontrent ce projet avant-gardiste ; elle souligne les évolutions d’un habitat social stigmatisé comme tel et cependant classé au titre des Monuments Historiques.

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