| Description |
1 online resource (351 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 A Brief History of the Facade in Twelve Buildings -- 2 Notes Toward a Difficult Definition -- Questions of Definition -- Conventional Notions of Facade -- The Facade and the Analogy of the Face -- Modernism and the Transformation of Face -- Facade in the Age of Blobitecture -- 3 Phenomenology and the Facade -- A Phenomenological Approach to Facade -- Front, Frontal, and Frontality -- The Contrapposto Facade -- Reading the Facade: The Phenomenon of Type |
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Serial Vision and the Parallax Conundrum -- 4 The Phenomenon of the Wall -- Facade and the Condition of Wallness -- The Wall/Frame Dichotomy -- Wall and Window -- The Tectonic versus the Technological Facade -- Wall and the Affective Response -- 5 The Phenomenon of the Frame -- The Column as Protagonist -- The Trabeated Wall -- The Frame and Two Types of Space -- The Wall/Frame Dialogues -- Three Contemporary Frame Facades -- 6 The Outside, the Inside, and the In-Between -- The Outside, the Inside, and the In-Between -- The Inside Out -- Interior, Exterior, and Idiosyncratic Forces |
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The Interior Facade -- The Fifth Facade -- 7 The Repetitive Bay -- The Ubiquitous Bay -- The Concatenated Facade -- The Music of the Bay -- The Coda as Punctuation -- Housing and the Modern Bay Facade -- 8 Representation, Abstraction, and Meaning -- The Problematic of Meaning -- Notes on an Architecture of Abstraction -- Duck, Decorated Shed, and Deconstructivism -- Allusion, Metaphor, and Index -- Minimalism and the Anti-Facade -- 9 Transparency, Translucency, and Opacity -- Transparency of the Literal Kind -- Phenomenal Transparency -- Translucency -- Literal and Phenomenal Opacity |
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The Kingdom of Glass -- 10 Proportion and the Search for a Cosmic Connection -- Proportion: Historical Preoccupation and Contemporary Ambiguity -- The Golden Section Ratio -- Le Corbusier and the Modulor -- Music, Proportion, and Facade -- Proportion in Practice: Three Contemporary Facades -- 11 Precedent and Invention -- The Role of Precedent -- Precedent, Invention, and Originality -- Modes of Appropriation -- Two Modern Exemplars -- Facadism: The Good, the Bad, and the Questionable -- 12 The City and the Facade -- Facade and Civic Space -- The Modern Facade and the Premodern City |
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Facade and the City of Modern Architecture -- The Problematic of the Autonomous Facade -- Facade and the City of Collage -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Selected Readings and Other Resources -- Image Captions and Credits -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317529538 |
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1317529537 |
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