PRINCETON, NJ.- The Life and Death of Buildings, opening July 23, 2011 and on view through November 6, 2011, explores the unique relationship uniting architecture, photography and time. Architecture inhabits and embodies time; whether months or centuries in duration, a building’s life cycle of construction, transformation and afterlife gives tangible form to history and turns public space into an index of the past. A photographic image is literally made of time, showing viewers the projection of an instant in history. When engaging with a photograph of a built environment as it once looked, we find ourselves immersed in an historical experience that was without