| #848706 in Books | imusti | 2016-12-09 | Original language:English | 9.00 x.38 x6.00l,.0 | File type: PDF | 208 pages | Mit Press||||The timing of this marvelous book couldn't be better. After decades of projects designed and discussed as the newest thing, we now have a study that faces the temporal reality of buildings without compromise: newness ends when inhabitation begins. S
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 an...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Maintenance Architecture (MIT Press) | Hilary Sample. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.