000 02052 a2200181 4500
020 _a9780262621346
082 _a720.105
_bLEA
100 _aLeatherbarrow, David
_919319
245 _aSurface architecture
260 _bMIT Press
_c2005
_aLondon
300 _avii,264p.
505 _aCONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS IX 1. INTRODUCTION: WHY SURFACE ARCHITECTURE? I 2. FRAMING CONTAINMENT 9 FRAMING THE FACE 9 MONUMENTAL VOLUMES 1-4 REPRESENTATION AND PRODUCTION 20 MINIMAL SURFACES 23 THE FACTORY 28 TOTAL CONTAINMENT 28 CHICAGO FRAMES 29 3.WINDOW/WALL 39 DE-VIGNOLIZATION 41 VIEWING THE LANDSCAPE 46 OPACITY AND TRANSPARENCY 51 THE OBLIOUE 54 THEPAINTED VIEW 58 THE DEPTH OF THE WINDOW WALL 58 TAKING STOCK 61 BORDER ADJUSTMENTS 62 VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL 63 MISALIGNMENTS 64 CLADDING AS CLOTHING 68 WINDOWS AND/AS WALLS 71 4 THE APPEARANCE OF COVERING 79 ATECTONIC FABRICATIONS'. SLIDING SURFACES 5O MASKING AND REVEALING 87 SYMBOLIC SURFACES 91 THE IMPRESSED FACADE: TATTOO 95 SURFACE APPLIQUE 98 IMPRESSIONS 101 PLANARITY AND SURFACE IMPRESSIONS 104 AESTHETICS IN AN INDUSTRIAL AGE 110 IDEALITY OF THE CONSTRUCTED FACT 113 ARCHITECTURE FOR INDUSTRY 116 FACTORY-MADE 125 5 ADJUSTING STANDARDS 131 THE LIGHT OF INDUSTRY 131 MODERN APPEARANCES AND PRACTICALITY 135 PREFABRICATION AND PERSONALITY 143 ARCHITECTURE EN SERIE 148 FABRICATION PROCESSES 157 "FOR MANY YEARS I WORE THE LEATHERAPRON" 160 6. PREMADE REMADE 165 OPEN AND CLOSED SYSTEMS OF CONSTRUCTION 165 BRUTAL FACTS OF BUILDING 168 FACTS OF BUILDING AND OF LIFE 171 INVENTION AND LIMITED MEANS 178 CHANCE CONSTRUCTION 185 AS FOUND 187 FORMLESSNESS 194 7. TECHNIQUE AND APPEARANCE : THE TASK OF THE PRESENT 199 DISTRACTION 201 MODERN BUILDING AND HISTORICAL MEMORY 204 REPRESENTATION AND NON R E PR ES ENTATI ON 209 BUILDING IMAGES 214 POSTCRIPT 215 TECHNIQUE 226 APPROPRIATION 241 NOTES 243 INDEX 257
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700 _aMostafavi, Mohsen
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