Plumbing
Sounding Modern Architecture
ed. by Nadir Lahiji, D.S. Friedman ; preface by Ignasi de Sola-Morales ; texts by Adolf Loos, Victor Burgin, Helen Molesworth ...[et al.]

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Author(s)

Adolf Loos, Victor Burgin, Helen Molesworth, ...[et al.]

Editor(s)

Nadir Lahiji, D.S. Friedman

Publication, year

New York : Princeton Architectural Press, 1997

Scope

232 Pages, illustrated, 23 cm.

ISBN

1568981074

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In this collection of essays the authors present the dialectic of cleanliness and uncleanliness in various logics of modernity under the complex concept of "plumbing". The hygienic body in its verticality, consists in its obstinate repression of the abject, the unclean, and the horizontal.

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Location

Cabinet 31 - 2: Lichaam en architectuur

Extra themes

Body and Architecture, Body and Space, Residents and the built environment ;

Remarks

Incl. bibliographical references and Index.