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OverviewConstructing Building Enclosures investigates and interrogates tensions that arose between the disciplines of architecture and engineering as they wrestled with technology and building cultures that evolved to deliver structures in the modern era. At the center of this history are inventive architects, engineers and projects that did not settle for conventional solutions, technologies and methods. Comprised of thirteen original essays by interdisciplinary scholars, this collection offers a critical look at the development and the purpose of building technology within a design framework. Through two distinct sections, the contributions first challenge notions of the boundaries between architecture, engineering and construction. The authors then investigate twentieth-century building projects, exploring technological and aesthetic boundaries of postwar modernism and uncovering lessons relevant to enclosure design that are typically overlooked. Projects include Louis Kahn’s Weiss House, Minoru Yamasaki’s Science Center, Sigurd Lewerentz’s Chapel of Hope and more. An important read for students, educators and researchers within architectural history, construction history, building technology and design, this volume sets out to disrupt common assumptions of how we understand this history. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Clifton FordhamPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.580kg ISBN: 9780367276287ISBN 10: 0367276283 Pages: 278 Publication Date: 22 July 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional & Vocational , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Enclosure Expanded Clifton Fordham PART 1 Framing Enclosures 1 Cladding the Palazzo Lavoro: Pier Luigi Nervi and ""The Borderline Between Decoration and Structure."" Thomas Leslie 2 The Decorative Modernism of Aluminium Cladding: Architecture and Industry Tait Johnson 3 The United Nations Secretariat, Its Glass Facades and Air-conditining,1947-1950 Joseph M. Siry 4 Victor Lundy, Walter Bird, and the Promise of Pneumatic Architecture Whitney Moon 5 Saarinen’s Shells: The Evolved Influence of Engineering and Construction Rob Whitehead 6 Coenesthetic Comfort: Between Climate and the Body Andrew Cruse PART 2 Assembling Constructions 7 Responsive Modernism: Louis Kahn’s Weiss Residence Enclosure Clifton Fordham 8 Intent vs. Interpretation: the Prosaic Poetics of Leweremtz & Nyberg Matthew Hall 9 ""The Material of the Future"": Precast Concrete at the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair Tyler S. Sprague 10 The Concrete Facades of Paul Rudolph’s Christian Science Building, 1965-1986 Scott Murray 11 Bill Hajjar’s Air-Wall: A Mid-Twentieth Century Four-Sided Double Skin Facade Ute Poerschke and Mahyar Hadighi 12 Defining the Double-Skin Facade in the Post-war Era Mary Ben Bonham 13 Enclosure as Ecological Apparatus: Biosphere 2’s Far-From-Equilibrium ""Human Experiment"" Meredith Sattler Index"ReviewsAuthor InformationClifton Fordham is a registered architect and Assistant Professor at Temple University, where he teaches building design and building technology. His current focus is buillding enclosures with an emphasis on how their design relates to the sun. He is a graduate of the Yale School of Architecture and Howard University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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