Surface Architecture (MIT Press)

Leatherbarrow, David (Author), Mostafavi, Mohsen (Author)

ISBN 10: 0262134071 / ISBN 13: 9780262134071

Editore: The MIT Press, 2002

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Book has light rubbing to covers with faint blemishes, a small stamp and light foxing to top and outer textblocks, faint aging to edges of pages, slightly bumped corners. otherwise in very good condition, strong binding, clean and unmarked text/pictures; some light signs of aging but an overall sturdy, handsome copy. Dust jacket has light rubbing and smudging to front and back, light sticker residue to bottom area of back side, light wear to top and bottom edges. in very good condition, now in archival cover.

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• Titolo: Surface Architecture (MIT Press)
• Editore: The MIT Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0262134071
• ISBN 13: 9780262134071
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: Very Good
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: Very Good
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Architecture

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Riassunto

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.

Informazioni sull?autore

Jason Noble is a member of the Science and Engineering of Natural Systems (SENSe) Research Group at the University of Southampton.