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Surface Architecture (Paperback, New Ed)
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Surface Architecture (Paperback, New Ed)
Series: Surface Architecture
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A study of the building surface, architecture's primary instrument
of identity and engagement with its surroundings. Visually, many
contemporary buildings either reflect their systems of production
or recollect earlier styles and motifs. This division between
production and representation is in some ways an extension of that
between modernity and tradition. In this book, David Leatherbarrow
and Mohsen Mostafavi explore ways that design can take advantage of
production methods such that architecture is neither independent of
nor dominated by technology. Leatherbarrow and Mostafavi begin with
the theoretical and practical isolation of the building surface as
the subject of architectural design. The autonomy of the surface,
the "free facade," presumes a distinction between the structural
and nonstructural elements of the building, between the frame and
the cladding. Once the skin of the building became independent of
its structure, it could just as well hang like a curtain, or like
clothing. The focus of the relationship between structure and skin
is the architectural surface. In tracing the handling of this
surface, the authors examine both contemporary buildings and those
of the recent past. Architects discussed include Albert Kahn,
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Alison and Peter Smithson, Alejandro de
la Sota, Robert Venturi, Jacques Herzog, and Pierre de Meuron. The
properties of a building's surface-whether it is made of concrete,
metal, glass, or other materials-are not merely superficial; they
construct the spatial effects by which architecture communicates.
Through its surfaces a building declares both its autonomy and its
participation in its surroundings.
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