Maintenance Architecture by Sample, Hilary

Maintenance Architecture

An inventive examination of a crucial but neglected aspect of architecture, by an architect writing to architects.Maintenance...
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Author: Hilary Sample
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Maintenance Architecture by Sample, Hilary

Maintenance Architecture

$52.70

Maintenance Architecture

$52.70
Author: Hilary Sample
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.



Author: Hilary Sample
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 09/11/2018
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.80w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780262535267
Audience: Young Adult

About the Author

Hilary Sample is an internationally recognized and award-winning architect and cofounder of MOS based in New York. City. She is the author of MOS Everything All at Once and Selected Works.


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