Main entry:

Sample, Hilary, author.

Title & Author:

Maintenance architecture / Hilary Sample.

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2016.

Description:

xi, 192 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Maintenance and the urban image : Rockefeller Center, Raymond Hood, 1939 ; Façade of Pharos Building, Vanessa van Dam, 2002 ; Capturing cleanliness ; Lever House, SOM, 1952 ; Appliance house, Jennifer Bolande, 1998-1999 ; La Notte, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1961 ; Sears Tower, SOM, 1973 ; Corporate materiality and self-maintenance: Alcoa, U.S. Steel, and PPG ; Union Carbide Headquarters, Natalie de Blois/SOM, 1962 -- The Louvre Pyramid, Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, 1989 -- Cleaning and the politics of labor : "Manifesto for maintenance art," Mierle Laderman Ukeles, 1969 ; On maintenance ; Crystal Palace, Sir Joseph Paxton, 1851 ; White Wings, Department of Street Cleaning, New York ; Flats at Rue des Amiraux, Henri Sauvage, 1925 ; Centre Pompidou Competition, Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, 1977 ; Neue Nationalgalerie, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, 1968 ; Desire ; Le baiser/The kiss, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, 1999 -- Visualizing decay : Koolhaas houselife, Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine, 2008 ; Madeness ; Morning cleaning, Jeff Wall, 1999 ; Conical intersect, Gordon Matta-Clark, 1975 ; Cleaning the Rietveld Pavilion, Job Koelewijn, 1992 ; Cleaning the drapes, Martha Rosler, 1967-1972 ; Ethics of dust, Jorge Otero-Pailos, 2009 ; Dusty relief, R&Sie(n), 2002 ; Usus/Usures, Rotor, 2010 -- Modernizing maintenance : With robots, Diego Trujillo Pisanty, 2010 ; The domestication of cleanliness ; Befreites wohnen, Sigfried Giedion, 1929 ; Cité de Refuge, Le Corbusier, 1929 ; The Dymaxion house, Buckminster Fuller, 1929 ; House of the future, Alison and Peter Smithson ; The squeegee, Ettore Steccone, 1936 ; Window-washing chairs, Anna Dormitzer, from 1878 ; Self-cleaning glass, Pilkington Glass, 2001 ; Beijing National Aquatics Center, PTW Architects, 2008 ; GEKKO Façade and clean ant: window-washing robots, 2009 -- Post-occupancy and alternate architectural futures : AM/PM, Sarah Morris, 1999 ; Endurance ; Loomis House, William Lescaze, 1938 ; Unité d'Habitation in Berlin, Le Corbusier, 1957 ; Yale Center for British Art, Louis Kahn, 1974 ; Toledo Museum of Art glass pavilion, SANAA, 2006 ; Dutch Embassy in Berlin, Rem Koolhaas/OMA, 2004 -- 0-14, Reiser + Umemoto, 2010 ; I feel cold today, Patrick Bernatchez, 2007.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

An inventive examination of a crucial but neglected aspect of architecture, by an architect writing to architects.

ISBN:

9780262034975 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0262034972 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780262535267
0262535262

Subject:

Architecture Human factors.
Buildings Maintenance Miscellanea.
Architecture Facteurs humains.
Constructions Entretien Miscellanées.
Buildings Maintenance and repair.
Maintenance.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 293978
Call No.: BIB 239252
Status: Available