Pressestimmen
A A primer for the digital age, with Foreign Office Architects' Farshid Moussavi demonstrating how the computer is as fine a form generator as any pattern book." Wallpaper Magazine "A return to architectural research as drawing." Archinect "A thoroughly- and beautifully-illustrated book that gives a broad overview of the various affects achieved by mostly contemporary buildings." Archidose "A remarkable array of forms." Metropolis Magazine "Undeniably powerful." Architect's Journal A A compelling study of affect manifest in clearly presented case studies with savy representations of various architectural techniques.A Documents A The impressive array of diagrams are extremely clear and useful... If you are looking for component and systems analysis of projects such as Future Systems' amorphous Selfridges Department Store or Herzog and de Meuron's embossed copper skin at the De Young Museum; look no further.A Death By Architecture
Kurzbeschreibung
A graphic guide to ornaments produced by building envelopes in the 20th century. The growth in size and number of "blank" building typologies that do not require any contact between the interior and exterior has provided an opportunity to look at new performances for building envelopes: liberated from their association with the interior core, these envelopes can explore perceptual effects targeted to the urban realm. A renewed discussion on ornament has become increasingly relevant as the figure of order and shape that emerges from the construction of these effects. This book is a graphic guide to ornaments produced by building envelopes in the 20th century. Unveiling the function of ornament and dismantling the idea that ornaments are applied to buildings as discrete or non-essential entities, the book traces contemporary experiments in envelope design, focusing on the relation between material and effect.
Über den Autor
Farshid Moussavi is Professor in Practice in the Department of Architecture, Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Her London-based firm, Foreign Office Architects (FOA), is recognized as one of the most creative design firms in the world, deftly integrating architecture, urban design, and landscape architecture in their projects. They have produced numerous critically-acclaimed and award-winning international projects, most notably the Yokohama Ferry Terminal in Japan. Prior to establishing Foreign Office Architects (with Alejandro Zaera Polo) in London in 1992, she worked with the Renzo Piano Building Workshop in Genoa and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in Rotterdam. Michael Kubo is Teaching Associate in Architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design and the US Director of ACTAR. He graduated with an M.Arch from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and with a B.A. in Architecture from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. With ACTAR, he is the editor of Desert America: Territory of Paradox (2006), Verb Conditioning (2005), Seattle Public Library (2005), Verb Connection and Verb Matters (2004), Phylogenesis: FOA's Ark (2003), and The Yokohama Project (2002). He previously collaborated with Rem Koolhaas and OMA / AMO as Associate Editor for the Harvard Guide to Shopping (2001), Great Leap Forward (2001), and Mutations (2000).
