Surface consciousness / guest editor, Mark Taylor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Taylor, Mark, 1955-

Series:

Architectural design ; v.73, no.2.

Architectural design profile ; no. 162.

Architectural design ; v.73, no.2 (Mar./April 2003)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Aesthetics.

Architecture.

Curtain walls.

Decoration and ornament, Architectural.

Computer-aided design.

Physical Description:

128 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Academy Editions, 2003.

Summary:

'Surface' is the current buzz word in contemporary architecture. The most exciting and cutting edge architectural projects, such as Foreign Office Architect's Yokohama Port Terminal and Mark Goulthorpe's Aegis Hyposurface, are being carefully conceptualised and crafted to make surface their main focus. Rather than seeking to define a new movement, this title demonstrates that for architecture surface is now far more than a 'crust' or 'decorative strategy', setting up meaningful relationships between contemporary methods of visioning, making and fabricating. Prompted by digital advancements, surface consciousness represents a whole new way of conceiving tectonic form. Whereas classical and even Modernist architecture polarised ornament and structure, contemporary techniques allow for an integration and blurring of the inside with the outside. In architectural terms this enables an unparalled freedom of expression and form. This is apparent in the diversity of the work featured here by those such as Herzog & de Meuron, Michael Trudgeon, Ashton Raggatt McDougall (ARM) and Lyons, in which a new delight emerges in patterning and texture as well as the sensuous and the ornamental.

Contents:

Between Surface and Substance / Mark Burry 8

Philibert de L'Orme Pavilion: Towards an Associative Architecture / Bernard Cache 20

Amorphous Structures / Horst Kiechle 26

Surface-Talk / Mark Taylor 30

Volcanic Matter: The Architecture of Whakaari/White Island / Sarah Treadwell 36

Masked Matter and Other Diagrams / Hans Frei 43

From Microcosm to Macrocosm: The Surface of Fuller and Sadao's US Pavilion at Montreal Expo '67 / Timothy M. Rohan 50

In Search of the Plasma Membrane / Michael Trudgeon 57

Conveying 3-D Shape and Depth with Textured and Transparent Surfaces / Victoria Interrante 61

Sticks and Stones: Skins and Bones / Peter Wood 65

Ornamental Operations / Brent Allpress 69

Seduction, Subversion and Predation: Surface Characteristics / Michael J Ostwald 75

Sewing Surface: Ground Matters Beneath the Eiffel Tower / Julieanna Preston 81

Surface: Architecture's Expanded Field / Karen Burns 86

Interior Eye Deluxe Apartments in the Sky / Craig Kellogg 94

Practice Profile Kathryn Findlay of Ushida Findlay / Neil Spiller 97

Building Profile Federation Square, Melbourne / Jeremy Melvin 103

Engineering Exegesis Blurring the Lines: Mediating between analogue and digital skill sets / Mark Burry 110

Highlights from Wiley Academy / Jane Peyton 119

Congratulations to Jayne Merkel / Helen Castle 120

Invisibly Informal / Lucy Bullivant 122

Site Lines Building Exploratory / Hannah Ford 126.

ISBN:

047084843X

OCLC:

51438002