Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture
|
Not currently available
Maintenance Architecture (Paperback)
Loot Price: R386
Discovery Miles 3 860
You Save: R123
(24%)
|
|
Maintenance Architecture (Paperback)
Series: Maintenance Architecture
(sign in to rate)
List price R509
Loot Price R386
Discovery Miles 3 860
You Save R123 (24%)
Supplier out of stock. If you add this item to your wish list we will let you know when it becomes available.
|
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 Fuller's 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 Rosler's Cleaning the Drapes to
Inigo Manglano-Ovalle's The Kiss.
General
Imprint: |
MIT Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Maintenance Architecture |
Release date: |
September 2018 |
First published: |
2016 |
Authors: |
Hilary Sample
(Architect, Principal, and Cofounder of MOS Architects)
|
Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 10mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
208 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-262-53526-7 |
Categories: |
Books >
Arts & Architecture >
Architecture >
General
|
LSN: |
0-262-53526-2 |
Barcode: |
9780262535267 |
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.