Hilary Sample

Maintenance Architecture

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ISBN 13:: 9780262034975
author:: Hilary Sample
format:: HardBack
publisher:: MIT Press 1 edition
language:: English
Publication Year:: 2017
Pages:: 208
Dimensions:: 15.2 x 1 x 22.9 cm
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Hardcover: 208 pages (2016) Hilary Sample's Maintenance Architecture offers an inventive examination of the architectural significance of maintenance. This book explores how buildings and cities need to be maintained, and how architecture can't escape from such realities. Sample examines specific buildings, materials, and projects through a series of short texts and images, including works by artists Gordon Matta-Clark, Jeff Wall, and Mierle Laderman Ukeles. The focus is on the private home, exhibition pavilion, and high-rise urban building, with particular attention to novel materials, technologies, and detailing in relation to endurance. The book considers buildings such as Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion House, the Lever House, and the O-14, among others.

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