UID:
almahu_9949386133702882
Format:
1 online resource (viii, 268 pages) :
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illustrations
ISBN:
9780429296963
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0429296967
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9781000081800
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100008180X
,
9781000081824
,
1000081826
,
9781000081848
,
1000081842
Content:
"Constructing Building Enclosures investigates and interrogates tensions between the disciplines of architecture and engineering as they wrestled with technology and building cultures that evolved to deliver structures in the modern era. At the center of this history are inventive architects, engineers and projects that did not settle for conventional solutions, technologies and methods. Comprised of twelve original essays by interdisciplinary scholars, this collection offers a critical look at the development and the purpose of building technology within a design framework. Through two distinct sections, the contributions first challenge notions of the boundaries between architecture, engineering and construction. The authors then investigate twentieth-century building projects exploring technological and aesthetic boundaries of post-war modernism, uncovering lessons relevant to enclosure design that are typically overlooked. Projects include Louis Kahn's Weiss House, Minoru Yamasaki's Science Center, Sigurd Lewerentz's Chapel of Hope, and more. An important read for students, educators, and researchers within architectural history, construction history, building technology and design, this volume sets out to disrupt common assumptions of how we understand this history"--
Note:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Enclosure Expanded -- Part 1 Framing Enclosures -- 1 Cladding the Palazzo Lavoro: Pier Luigi Nervi and "The Borderline Between Decoration and Structure" -- 2 The Decorative Modernism of Aluminum Cladding: Architecture and Industry -- 3 The United Nations Secretariat: Its Glass Facades and Air Conditioning, 1947-1950 -- 4 Victor Lundy, Walter Bird and the Promise of Pneumatic Architecture -- 5 Saarinen's Shells: The Evolving Influence of Engineering and Construction
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6 Doing Something About the Weather: A Case for Discomfort -- Part 2 Assembling Constructions -- 7 Responsive Modernism: Louis Kahn's Weiss Residence Enclosure -- 8 Prosaic Assemblies: The Rich Pragmatism of Sigurd Lewerentz and Bernt Nyberg -- 9 "The Material of the Future": Precast Concrete at the 1962 Seattle World's Fair -- 10 The Concrete Facades of Paul Rudolph's Christian Science Building, 1965-1986 -- 11 Bill Hajjar's Air-Wall: A Mid-Twentieth-Century Four-Sided Double-Skin Facade -- 12 Defining the Double-Skin Facade in the Postwar Era
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13 Enclosure as Ecological Apparatus: Biosphere 2's "Human Experiment" -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version: Constructing building enclosures New York : Routledge, 2020. ISBN 9780367276287
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429296963
