In recent architecture theory and practise there has been a tendency to refer to exteriors as a skin concealing an interior, as opposed to the traditional and more physical concepts of surface, flatness, and depth. The computer now enables the architect to call his design into life, free from the rigid material form, and view it as a flexible and interactive creation. In this book, the concepts of flatness and surface tension are examined in the light of virtual design and built reality. A selection of projects are presented to show how the architects regard space and surfaces in modern architectural practice in a digital age.
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In recent architecture theory and practice there has been a tendency to refer to exteriors as a skin concealing an interior, as opposed to the traditional and more physical concepts of surface, flatness, and depth. The computer now enables the architect to call his design into life and view it as a flexible and interactive creation. In this book,the concepts of flatness and surface tension are examined in the light of virtual design and built reality. A selection of exciting projects from various architects are presented to show how they regard space and surfaces in modern architectural practice in a digital age.
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Depth is brought to the surface,
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After the Moderne with its dominating theme of transparency andthe postmodern with its absolute flatness of façades to whichImperiale assigns a "lack of depth", depth is brought to thesurface. The interaction between shell and contents corresponds to thecontemporary idea of our own body. Our skin being the largest organ wepossess is experienced as a mirror of the inside and is increasinglybeing regarded as a filtering membrane between the inside and theoutside. In this small book, six chapters mention and introduce allrelevant theses. After comparisons with examples from art, the secondchapter is dedicated to architectural surfaces as successors to mediawalls. Folds, theories of Deleuze and the consequences of animationsoftware have led to topological surfaces such as the Klein bottle orthe Moebius strip. The digital technologies are explained briefly butclearly, from NURBS and hybrids to liquid-crystal surfaces. The fourthchapter is dedicated to the interface between the virtual and the realworld. The concluding remarks and outlook are brief and ask questionsconcerning representation in today's architecture...
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Postmodern theorists - like Fredric Jameson, Gilles Deleuze, and others - have made much of one characteristic feature of contemporary thought which owes little to typical modernist models of "depth." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Postmodern theorists - like Fredric Jameson, Gilles Deleuze, and others - have made much of one characteristic feature of contemporary thought which owes little to typical modernist models of "depth." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
complex topological surfaces Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Bernard Cache, Digital Stone, Greg Lynn, Moving Glass, Peter Eisenman, Bernard Tschumi, Marcos Novak, Neil Denari, Raybould House, Stephen Perrella, West Side Project New!
Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Good Looking: Essays on the Virtue of Images by Barbara Maria Stafford in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord on page 22, page 81, and Back Matter
- Envisioning Information by Edward R. Tufte on page 14, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Electronic Culture: Technology and Visual Representation by Timothy Druckrey on page 82, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Folding in Architecture (Architectural Design) by Greg Lynn in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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