The Online Photographer: The Evanescent and Phantasmagoric
(This is something that I wrote on theonlinephotographer.typepad.com.)
“[Buildings] age, they need to be updated, their uses change, their meaning relative to the “now” of when they were new changes, funding for maintenance increases and becomes burdensome.”
Have you read or watched Stewart Brand’s ‘How Buildings Learn’? You might find it interesting. He’s put the six TV episodes on YouTube, here’s the first: https://youtu.be/AvEqfg2sIH0
The book is good too. Here’s my summary, which Brand liked: https://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2004/10/24/how-buildings-le/