| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 192 pages) |
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Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 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; 2 Cleaning and the Politics of Labor |
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"Manifesto for Maintenance Art," Mierle Laderman Ukeles, 1969On Maintenance; Crystal Palace, Sir Joseph Paxton, 1851; White Wings, Department of Street Cleaning, New York, 1930; Flats at Rue des Amiraux, Henri Sauvage, 1925; Centre Pompidou Competition, Renzo Piano andRichard Rogers, 1977; Neue Nationalgalerie, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, 1968; Desire; Le Baiser/The Kiss, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, 1999; 3 Visualizing Decay; Koolhaas Houselife, Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine, 2008; Madeness; Morning Cleaning, Jeff Wall, 1999; Conical Intersect, Gordon Matta-Clark, 1975 |
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Cleaning the Rietveld Pavilion, Job Koelewijn, 1992Cleaning the Drapes, Martha Rosler, 1967-1972; Ethics of Dust, Jorge Otero-Pailos, 2009; Dusty Relief, R & Sie(n), 2002; Usus/Usures, Rotor, 2010; 4 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, 1955-1956; The Squeegee, Ettore Steccone, 1936; Window-Washing Chairs, Anna Dormitzer, from 1878 |
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Self-Cleaning Glass, Pilkington Glass, 2001Beijing National Aquatics Center, PTW Architects, 2008; GEKKO Façade and Clean Ant: Window-Washing Robots, 2009; 5 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; O-14, Reiser + Umemoto, 2010; I Feel Cold Today, Patrick Bernatchez, 2007; Notes; Index |
| Summary |
An inventive examination of a crucial but neglected aspect of architecture, by an architect writing to architects |
| Analysis |
ARCHITECTURE/Architectural Theory & Criticism |
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ARCHITECTURE/Architectural History/Contemporary Architecture |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Architecture -- Human factors.
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Buildings -- Maintenance -- Miscellanea
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ARCHITECTURE -- Adaptive Reuse & Renovation.
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ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Landmarks & Monuments.
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ARCHITECTURE -- Professional Practice.
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ARCHITECTURE -- Reference.
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Architecture -- Human factors
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Buildings -- Maintenance
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| Genre/Form |
Trivia and miscellanea
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780262335355 |
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0262335352 |
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0262335360 |
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9780262335362 |
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