Maintenance Architecture

by Hilary Sample

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262535262
• ISBN13: 9780262535267
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher