The external facades of a building are more than a protective mantle or a skin regulating temperature and light. They determine a building's very appearance. Increasingly, external surfaces are designed to reflect their status as an integral part of the building rather than just a wrapper. In Detail: Building Skins focuses on the wide-ranging aspects of facade design, from the selection and use of materials to the advanced technical possibilities now open to the architect. A wide array of carefully selected international examples show the theory in practice. All plans, details, and large-scale sections of the facades have been fully researched, and expert authors provide the essential information needed to plan and design facades and understand the latest developments in technology and materials.
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
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The architect and Editor in Chief of DETAIL Christian Schittich (1956) has written most of the titles in the DETAIL series.
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In Detail Series sets a new standard for contemporary architecture,
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I cannot say enough about the quality of this entire series, and this book is among the best of the set. Few architecture books are of this high quality; one usually expects some level of editorial compromise; either we get lightweight analysis and documentation with beautiful photographs, or you get overly complex, teched out stuff that doesn't understand the fundamental concepts. Or it's just bad architecture. But this entire series, from the quality of the writing, the great beauty and clarity of the drawings, and finally to the aptness and excellence of the finished architecture; it represents the new state of the art. Buy the whole series, but start with this one and "Building Simply", which I'll rave about separately.
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Seductive Packaging,
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The way architects use materials and the effects they are after in the exterior envelope nowadays are quite surprising. "Building Skins" reports to us these exciting limelight phenomena. The book focuses mainly on two issues that pertain to the production of architectural skin; first, is exploration of materiality; and second, is interdisciplinary integrated approach to energy performance. It sounds pretty banal, but because of the cases provided are handsomely put together, the experience of reading is ever afresh and anew.
Schittich's wonderfully written essay in the beginning of the book helps a reader to quickly understand the forces (historical, technological, aesthetical, and environmental) that pushed this global interest in visually-effective or performance-efficient façade making. Attitude towards materials and building skin, the book summarizes into (mainly) three groups of architects. First group of architects (e.g. Zumthor, reactionary to flickering-aesthetics), uses untreated materials to renew and expose the very attributes of materials. Second group of architects (e.g. Herzog De Meuron, embracing digital-friendly attitude), uses machine-treated materials to explore new visual effects. Third group of architects (e.g. Thomas Herzog, focusing on climatic parameters), integrates solar manipulators into the façade. The book also lightly touches on the issues of artificial lighting that are becoming more crucial to contemporary urban nightscape. Supported by clean detail drawings, there are ample examples of building skins. Similar to any of the Birkhauser Detail series; the book is richly informative on the technical terms of materials and treatment on materials. It also introduces some German architects that are pretty much foreign to English-speaking audience. The two essays by Lang & Krippner are also worth mentioning. Seductive building packaging will cool down as time passes by, but meanwhile, this book will serve its purpose.
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Wide range of material, forms and geometry examples,
This review is from: In Detail: Building Skins (In Detail (englisch)) (Hardcover)
This books contains mostly low rise building, stadium, and stores in Europe that shows exordinary variety of materials used in exterior skins. A eye opener that give a glimps of the recent development of curtain wall design and the creativity involved in solving various problems. Each case contains at least horizontal and vertical sections drawings with materials table and background introduction of its functions, and some has enlarged photo of particular features which is useful to study how it was constructed. While in some cases I wish more close-up pictures were given, but at least for the most part it was more useful than most of architectual books which only offer overall view of the building and it liveup the name 'in detail' which I was looking for.
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A large sculptural volume covered with air-filled "cushions" that light up at night for added dramatic effect, interwoven strips of gleaming stainless steel as a building skin, and transportable micro homes clad in aluminium panels covered with plastic sheeting - since the first edition of "In DETAIL Building Skins" was published, many more new and exciting examples of innovative architecture have emerged. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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A large sculptural volume covered with air-filled "cushions" that light up at night for added dramatic effect, interwoven strips of gleaming stainless steel as a building skin, and transportable micro homes clad in aluminium panels covered with plastic sheeting - since the first edition of "In DETAIL Building Skins" was published, many more new and exciting examples of innovative architecture have emerged. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
independent architecture office, sunscreen elements, moveable systems, building skin, cycling stadium, bituminous seal, facade scale, sauerbruch hutton, amorphous silicon cells, vapour barrier, facade construction, roof skin, solar absorbers, laminated safety glass, daylight use, facade surfaces, toughened glass, sealing layer, roof installations, external skin, insulating glass, photovoltaic modules, indoor humidity, float glass Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Crystal Palace (Architecture in Detail) by Joseph Paxton on page 11, and page 12
- London Project by Chronicle Unknown in Back Matter
- Glasbau Atlas (Konstruktionsatlanten) (German Edition) by Christian Schittich on page 27
- Police Station (Behind the Scenes) by Andrew Langley on page 67
- Toyo Ito: Blurring Architecture 1971-2005 by Ulrich Schneider on page 26
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