Plumbing: Sounding Modern Architecture

Plumbing: Sounding Modern Architecture
ISBN-10
1568981074
ISBN-13
9781568981079
Series
Plumbing
Category
Architecture
Pages
244
Language
English
Published
1997
Publisher
Princeton Architectural Press
Authors
Nadir Lahiji, Daniel S. Friedman

Description

One of the fundamental tenets of modernism was its image of hygiene, its ideal of bringing cleanliness and order to the great unwashed, as evident in Adolf Loos's 1898 article, Plumbers. Using Loos as a point of departure, the essays in this collection examine architecture through the multiple meanings inherent in plumbing - from the pipes of modern hygiene, to the plumb line of the right angle, to Marcel Duchamp's Ready-made urinal.

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