Main entry:

Leatherbarrow, David.

Title & Author:

Surface architecture / David Leatherbarrow and Mohsen Mostafavi.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2002.

Description:

264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-255) and index.
1. Introduction: Why surface architecture? -- 2. Framing containment -- Framing the face -- Monumental volumes -- Representation and production -- Minimal surfaces -- The factory -- Total containment -- Chicago frames -- 3. Window/wall -- De-vignolization -- Viewing the landscape -- Opacity and transparency -- The oblique -- The painted view -- The depth of the window wall -- Taking stock -- Border adjustments -- Vertical and horizontal -- Misalignments -- Cladding as clothing -- Windows and/as walls -- 4. The appearance of covering -- Atectonic fabrications: Sliding surfaces -- Masking and revealing -- Symbolic surfaces -- The impressed facade: Tattoo -- Surface appliqué -- Impressions -- Planarity and surface impressions -- Aesthetics in an industrial age -- Ideality of the constructed fact -- Architecture for industry -- Factory-made -- 5. Adjusting standards -- The light of industry -- Modern appearances and practicality -- Prefabrication and personality -- Architecture en série -- Fabrication processes -- "For many years I wore the leather apron" -- 6. Premade-remade -- Open and closed systems of construction -- Brutal facts of building -- Facts of building and of life -- Invention and limited means -- Chance construction -- As found -- Formlessness -- 7. Technique and appearance: The task of the present -- Distraction -- Modern building and historical memory -- Representation and nonrepresentation -- Building images -- Postscript -- Technique -- Appropriation.

Summary:

Visually, many contemporary buildings either reflect their systems of production or recollect earlier styles and motifs. This text explores ways that design can take advantage of production methods so that architecture is neither independent of nor dominated by technology.

ISBN:

0262134071 (hc. ; alk. paper)
9780262134071 (hc. ; alk. paper)
0262621940 (pbk.)
9780262621946 (pbk.)

Subject:

Architecture.
Architecture and technology.
Materials Appearance.
Architecture et technologie.
Matériaux Apparence.
architecture (discipline)
Baustoff
Gebäudehülle
Bauornament
Gevels.
Structuur.

Added entries:

Mostafavi, Mohsen.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 224612
Call No.: NA2540 .L36 2002
Status: Available