Jug Cerovic

"Hey architects please make maintenance easy for your descendants." Traditional architect: "Sir, this castle is made of stone, brick, lime, wood, iron. The technology goes back hundreds of years and the materials needed are readily available in my time as well as yours, using only the hands and the eyes of builder. We chose the most fortuitous place possible in high stable grounds with a ridiculously over strength foundation in a place where gentle winds and sun help dry it from periodic rains. You can do this, we made it as easy as possible." Modernist architecture: "The whole edifice is upheld by my custom highly experimental avant-garde suspension cable roof, I don't think we kept the drawings anywhere but you'll figure it out surely. Also the main part likely to fail is the thousands of tons of rebar embedded in the concrete, you'll have to shore it up somehow or take it out piece by piece. Oh did I mention the concrete itself has a limited lifespan due to an internal chemical reaction? The engineers figured we'd have at least 30 years before cracking starts. Oh and we weren't particularly concerned about the earthquake resistance and we built it next to the ocean—ah you can taste the salt in the air!—on soft sandy partly reclaimed land! But anyway the main question is why would you want to keep it? It is architecture of its time and it ought to be replaced by new architecture of its time, taking on the newest technology and aesthetics of your era, that is the whole point of architectural modernism!"