On Weathering The Life of Buildings in Time

Name: On Weathering The Life of Buildings in Time
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ISBN: 9780262132916

ISBN-10: 0262132915

ISBN-13: 9780262132916

Edition: 1993

Authors: Mohsen Mostafavi, David Leatherbarrow

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On Weathering illustrates the complex nature of the architectural project by taking into account its temporality, linking technical problems of maintenance and decay with a focused consideration of their philosophical and ethical implications. In a clear and direct account supplemented by many photographs commissioned for this book, Mostafavi and Leatherbarrow examine buildings and other projects from Alberti to Le Corbusier to show that the continual refinishing of the building by natural forces adds to, rather than detracts from, architectural meaning. Their central discovery, that weathering makes the "final" state of the construction necessarily indefinite, challenges the conventional…

Book details

List price: $50.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 3/22/1993
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 142
Size: 9.50" wide x 9.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

Mohsen Mostafavi is the director of the Architectural Association in London.

David Leatherbarrow is Professor of Architecture and Chairman of the Graduate Group in Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania.