L'involucro architettonico contemporaneo tra linguaggio e costruzione = Contemporary architectonic envelope between language and construction / Michele Beccu, Spartaco Paris.
"Through two critical contributions, this text looks at the evolution and role that have been assumed today by the facade envelope in contemporary architectonic output. The ever-more radical separation between structure and shell entrusts to the latter the expressive and communicative functions...
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| Other title: | Contemporary architectonic envelope between language and construction. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Italian |
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Roma : New York :
R designpress ; Distribution for other countries, ACTAR-D,
2008.
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| Summary: | "Through two critical contributions, this text looks at the evolution and role that have been assumed today by the facade envelope in contemporary architectonic output. The ever-more radical separation between structure and shell entrusts to the latter the expressive and communicative functions of the building. This appears to represent a belated victory for that bekleidung prinzip which, though first expressed a century ago, opened the discussion on an articulated and problematic phenomenon, whose basis we can investigate today with technical knowhow and new theoretical knowledge. The evolutionary dynamics of the processes of planning and building in architecture, external factors related to the marketplace and the production of new materials filled with untapped expressive potential, the increase in the demand for results and performance - especially relating to energy and the environment - of the building system, all these have had their influence on the phenomenon. The two texts, one tending to the historical-compositional, the other more technological, re-examine the complexity of this scenario, moving beyond the approximations of hurried readings that deal exclusively with an ineffable "surface". The reflection is completed by a series file-critiques relating to the envelopezs of ten buildings drawn from the most acclaimed recent architectonic output, selected from works of the last 15 years." --Book Jacket. |
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| Physical Description: | 155 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans (some color) ; 27 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9788889819159 8889819154 |
| Language: | Parallel text in English and Italian. |