Maintenance Architecture by Hilary Sample (English) Paperback Book

Description: Maintenance Architecture by Hilary Sample An inventive examination of a crucial but neglected aspect of architecture, by an architect writing to architects. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description An inventive examination of a crucial but neglected aspect of architecture, by an architect writing to architects.Maintenance plays a crucial role in the production and endurance of architecture, yet architects for the most part treat maintenance with indifference. The discipline of architecture values the image of the new over the lived-in, the photogenic empty and stark building over a messy and labored one. But the fact is: homes need to be cleaned and buildings and cities need to be maintained, and architecture no matter its form cannot escape from such realities. In Maintenance Architecture, Hilary Sample offers an inventive examination of the architectural significance of maintenance through a series of short texts and images about specific buildings, materials, and projects. Although architects have seldom choose to represent maintenance-imagining their work only from conception to realization-artists have long explored subjects of endurance and permanence in iconic architecture. Sample explores a range of art projects-by artists including Gordon Matta-Clark, Jeff Wall, and Mierle Laderman Ukeles-to recast the problem of maintenance for architecture. How might architectural design and discourse change as a building cycle expands to include "post-occupancy"?Sample looks particularly at the private home, exhibition pavilion, and high-rise urban building, giving special attention to buildings constructed with novel and developing materials, technologies, and precise detailing in relation to endurance. These include Buckminster Fullers Dymaxion House (1929), the Lever House (1952), the U.S. Steel Building (1971), and the O-14 (2010). She considers the iconography of skyscrapers; maintenance workforces, both public and private; labor-saving technology and devices; and contemporary architectural projects and preservation techniques that encompass the afterlife of buildings. A selection of artworks make the usually invisible aspects of maintenance visible, from Martha Roslers Cleaning the Drapes to Inigo Manglano-Ovalles The Kiss. Author Biography Hilary Sample is a Principal at MOS, Associate Professor at Columbia Universitys Graduate School of Architecture Planning, and Preservation, and author of Maintenance Architecture (MIT Press). Details ISBN0262535262 Author Hilary Sample Pages 208 Publisher Mit Press Ltd Year 2018 ISBN-10 0262535262 ISBN-13 9780262535267 Format Paperback Audience Age 18 Imprint MIT Press Place of Publication Cambridge, Mass. Country of Publication United States DEWEY 720.288 Affiliation MOS Architects Position Architect, Principal, and Cofounder of MOS Architects Series The Mit Press Language English Audience General/Trade Publication Date 2018-09-11 UK Release Date 2018-09-11 AU Release Date 2018-09-11 NZ Release Date 2018-09-11 US Release Date 2018-09-11 Illustrations 50 color illus., 36 b&w illus. We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:139313348;

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