Plumbing: Sounding Modern Architecture
July 28th, 2010
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“Plumbers mediate between the pure and the abject. They order everyday fluids, they manage flow, they straighten things out and keep things clean. Sounding depths, righting columns, fixing pipes: plumbing leads to the bottom of things.” –from the introduction to Plumbing 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… More >>