[Themaintainers] new book - Maintenance Architecture

[Markus Lemmens]

Dear Lee,
I do follow the Maintainers conversations over the recent months. I am in New York City and do represent a group of European Universities (e.g. Freiburg, KIT Karlsruhe, Basel and Strasbourg). Are you free for a first call? We work on a  Technology Transfer Conference structure and I would like to ask if that might be of some interest for you beeing involved e.g. as a speaker etc.

Let me know if you like to talk.

Kind regards,
Markus Lemmens

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> On Sep 12, 2016, at 14:15, Lee Vinsel <lee.vinsel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks, Margy. This is great.
> 
> We had at least one presentation on architecture and maintenance at the first Maintainers conference. The one I'm most thinking of by Hugh Lester on designing prisons with maintainability in mind was later became a post for the Maintainers blog: http://themaintainers.org/blog/2016/5/12/escape-from-maintenance
> 
> BTW, everyone, we will be bringing the Maintainers blog back to life in the next few weeks. We have 3-4 posts already planned. If you have any ideas or pieces of writing you'd like to share, please let us know. 
> 
> Best,
> 
> Lee
> 
>> On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 9:33 AM, Marguerite Avery <mavery at amherst.edu> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I thought this list might be interested in a new book from MIT Press - Maintenance Architecture by Hilary Sample. (A description of the work follows this message.) Although this work was acquired by the architecture editor rather than through the Infrastructures series (part of my former STS list), this indicates a heightening  awareness and acceptance of such scholarship.  That said, I’ve not yet had a chance to read it and cannot personally vouch for it. 
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>> Margy 
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>> Maintenance Architecture
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>> By Hilary Sample
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>> Overview
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>> 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 and buildings and cities need to be maintained, and architecture no matter its form cannot escape from such realities. In Maintenance Architecture, Hilary Sample offers an inventive examination of the architectural significance of maintenance through a series of short texts and images about specific buildings, materials, and projects. Although architects have seldom choose to represent maintenance—imagining their work only from conception to realization—artists have long explored subjects of endurance and permanence in iconic architecture. Sample explores a range of art projects—by artists including Gordon Matta-Clark, Jeff Wall, and Mierle Laderman Ukeles—to recast the problem of maintenance for architecture. How might architectural design and discourse change as a building cycle expands to include “post-occupancy”?
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>> Sample looks particularly at the private home, exhibition pavilion, and high-rise urban building, giving special attention to buildings constructed with novel and developing materials, technologies, and precise detailing in relation to endurance. These include Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion House (1929), the Lever House (1952), the U.S. Steel Building (1971), and the O-14 (2010). She considers the iconography of skyscrapers; maintenance workforces, both public and private; labor-saving technology and devices; and contemporary architectural projects and preservation techniques that encompass the afterlife of buildings. A selection of artworks make the usually invisible aspects of maintenance visible, from Martha Rosler’s Cleaning the Drapes to Inigo Manglano-Ovalle’s The Kiss.
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>> https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/maintenance-architecture
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