Afterlives: Transforming Saarinen’s Ellinikon Terminal, Museum of Design Athens

Harvard GSD

Obsolescence and reuse are the focus of the Afterlives studio. Architecture is often imagined as a process of formation, of construction — architecture’s debut. The other end of the process is often overlooked — its demise. What happens to architecture after its uses change, and its occupants move out, and the technology shifts, and no one cares for it anymore? What happens to architecture after it is rendered obsolete? The notion of obsolescence is integrally tied to notions of modernity and…