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9780262621946

Surface Architecture

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  • ISBN13:

    9780262621946

  • ISBN10:

    0262621940

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2005-02-11
  • Publisher: The MIT Press

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Summary

Winner of the 2003 CICA Bruno Zevi Book Award presented by the International Committee of Architectural CriticsVisually, 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.

Author Biography

David Leatherbarrow is Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of Uncommon Ground: Architecture, Technology, and Topography (MIT Press, 2000)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Why Surface Architecture?
1(8)
Framing Containment
9(30)
Framing the Face
9(5)
Monumental Volumes
14(6)
Representation and Production
20(3)
Minimal Surfaces
23(5)
The Factory
28(1)
Total Containment
28(1)
Chicago Frames
29(10)
Window/Wall
39(40)
De-Vignolization
41(5)
Viewing the Landscape
46(5)
Opacity and Transparency
51(3)
The Oblique
54(4)
The Painted View
58(1)
The Depth of the Window Wall
58(3)
Taking Stock
61(1)
Border Adjustments
62(1)
Vertical and Horizontal
63(1)
Misalignments
64(4)
Cladding as Clothing
68(3)
Windows and/as Walls
71(8)
The Appearance of Covering
79(52)
Atectonic 'Fabrications: Sliding Surfaces
80(7)
Masking and Revealing
87(4)
Symbolic Surfaces
91(4)
The Impressed Facade: Tattoo
95(3)
Surface Applique
98(3)
Impressions
101(3)
Planarity and Surface Impressions
104(6)
Aesthetics in an Industrial Age
110(3)
Ideality of the Constructed Fact
113(3)
Architecture for Industry
116(9)
Factory-Made
125(6)
Adjusting Standards
131(34)
The Light of Industry
131(4)
Modern Appearances and Practicality
135(8)
Prefabrication and Personality
143(5)
Architecture En Serie
148(9)
Fabrication Processes
157(3)
``For Many Years I Wore the Leather Apron''
160(5)
Premade---Remade
165(34)
Open and Closed Systems of Construction
165(3)
Brutal Facts of Building
168(3)
Facts of Building and of Life
171(7)
Invention and Limited Means
178(7)
Chance Construction
185(2)
As Found
187(7)
Formlessness
194(5)
Technique and Appearance: The Task of the Present
199(16)
Distraction
201(3)
Modern Building and Historical Memory
204(5)
Representation and Nonrepresentation
209(5)
Building Images
214(1)
Postcript 215(11)
Technique 226(15)
Appropriation 241(2)
Notes 243(14)
Index 257

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