Surface Architecture

作者：DavidLeatherbarrow/MohsenMostafavi

出版社：TheMITPress

出版年：2005-2-11

页数：276

定价：USD26.95

装帧：Paperback

ISBN：9780262621946

内容简介
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Visually, many contemporary buildings either reflect their systems of production or recollect earlier styles and motifs. This division between production and representation is in some ways an extension of that between modernity and tradition. In this book, David Leatherbarrow and Mohsen Mostafavi explore ways that design can take advantage of production methods such that architecture is neither independent of nor dominated by technology.Leatherbarrow and Mostafavi begin with the theoretical and practical isolation of the building surface as the subject of architectural design. The autonomy of the surface, the "free facade," presumes a distinction between the structural and nonstructural elements of the building, between the frame and the cladding. Once the skin of the building became independent of its structure, it could just as well hang like a curtain, or like clothing. The focus of the relationship between structure and skin is the architectural surface. In tracing the handling of this surface, the authors examine both contemporary buildings and those of the recent past. Architects discussed include Albert Kahn, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Alison and Peter Smithson, Alejandro de la Sota, Robert Venturi, Jacques Herzog, and Pierre de Meuron.The properties of a building's surface — whether it is made of concrete, metal, glass, or other materials — are not merely superficial; they construct the spatial effects by which architecture communicates. Through its surfaces a building declares both its autonomy and its participation in its surroundings.

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leatherbarrow sometimes gets intoxicated in his own writing, this is one of those. but a good book.

用实例说话。

Leatherbarrow在文中引用的各种实例并没有形成有力的系统,略有拼凑的意味.但能从繁多的历史渊源中抽出一条SURFACE发展的脉络,还是非常有意义的.

说来说去的道理其实很简单，就是在技术不断进步的背景下，原本构造与表现一体的建筑慢慢相互脱离开，以前的建筑建成那样是因为技术条件的限制，诸如柱子窗户等结构都是妥协的结果，而现在技术进步了，有了完全悬挂于立面之外的表皮，那这个表皮的形式是否还是原本建筑构造的表达？我们该如何在不被技术限制的同时充分利用技术的优势？
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