Constructing building enclosures : architectural history, technology and poetics in the postwar era / edited by Clifton Fordham.
"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, e...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Routledge,
2021.
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| Summary: | "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"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 268 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780429296963 0429296967 9781000081800 100008180X 9781000081824 1000081826 9781000081848 1000081842 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 13, 2020) |
| Biographical or Historical Data: | Clifton Fordham is a registered architect and Assistant Professor at Temple University, where he teaches building design and building technology. His current focusisbuillding enclosures with an emphasison how their design relates to the sun. He is a graduate of the Yale School of Architecture and Howard University. |