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Overview"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 design can take advantage of production methods so that architecture neither ignores nor is dominated by technology. Leatherbarrow and Mostafavi examine the theoretical and practical isolation of the building surface as the subject of architectural design. The autonomy of the surface, the modernist ""free facade,"" presumed 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. But the properties of a building's surface - whether 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." Full Product DetailsAuthor: David Leatherbarrow (University of Pennsylvania) , Mohsen Mostafavi (Dean, Harvard University)Publisher: MIT Press Ltd Imprint: MIT Press Dimensions: Width: 20.30cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.830kg ISBN: 9780262134071ISBN 10: 0262134071 Pages: 276 Publication Date: 11 October 2002 Recommended Age: From 18 years Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Out of stock  Table of ContentsReviewsMeticulously and beautifully conceived and presented, Surface Architecture rewards reading and re-reading, inspiring the pursuit of new possibilities in the creation of architecture. - Bobby Open, The Architectural Review; This should be required reading for any architect. - Jeremy Melvin, The Architects' Journal, 2003 Books of the Year Author InformationDavid Leatherbarrow is Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of Uncommon Ground: Architecture, Technology, and Topography (MIT Press, 2000), Mohsen Mostafavi is Dean of the School of Art, Architecture, and Planning at Cornell University. He is the editor of Approximations and Structure as Space (both MIT Press, 2001). Leatherbarrow and Mostafavi are the authors of On Weathering (MIT Press, 1993). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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