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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 that of the lived-in, the photogenic empty and stark building over a messy and labored one. But 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 signifiance of maintenance through a series of short texts and images about specific buildings, materials, and projects. 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. 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.

Architecture --- Buildings --- Edifices --- Halls --- Structures --- Human factors in architecture --- Human engineering --- Architecture and society --- Human factors. --- Maintenance and repair --- Environmental engineering --- Maintenance --- Miscellanea. --- ARCHITECTURE/Architectural Theory & Criticism --- ARCHITECTURE/Architectural History/Contemporary Architecture --- Constructions --- Miscellanea --- Facteurs humains --- Entretien --- Miscellanées --- 72.025 --- Monumentenzorg --- Restauratie (architectuur) --- Renovatie (architectuur) --- Design architectural --- Design architectural. --- Facteurs humains. --- Entretien. --- Entretien des bâtiments --- Processus de conception --- Art --- outdoor sculpture --- maintenance --- architecture [object genre] --- preserving --- architectural conservation --- Built environment