Maintenance Architecture
$49.17
- Hardcover
208 pages
- Release Date
9 December 2016
Summary
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262034975 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262034972 |
| Author: | Hilary Sample |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 9 December 2016 |
| Weight: | 564g |
| Dimensions: | 16mm x 152mm x 229mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Hilary Sample
Hilary Sample is a Principal at MOS, an Associate Professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, and the author of Maintenance Architecture (MIT Press).
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