MAINTENANCE ARCHITECTURE

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 bui lding over a messy and labored one. But the fact is: homes need to be cleaned and buildings and cities need to be maintained, and ar chitecture no matter its form cannot escape from such realities. In Maintenance Architecture, Hilary Sample offers an inventive exam ination ...[Read more]