Open for Maintenance – Wegen Umbau geöffnet | ISBN 978-3-95905-703-5 | ARCH+

Maintenance and Remodeling

Maintaining (Through Squatting)

Essay

Ludovico Centis

S. 54–61

Laying of the main water pipe connecting Venice to the mainland, 1882. Inaugurated two years later, the modern aqueduct steadily supplies Venice with fresh water from the rivers Brenta and Seriola. Previously, the city relied on thousands of public and private rainwater cisterns, whose poor state of maintenance was one of the main causes of frequent outbreaks of cholera. / © Archivio Veritas / Museo dell’Acqua di Venezia

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