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Author Borden, Gail Peter, author

Title New essentialism : material architecture / Gail Peter Borden
Edition First edition
Published [Novato, California] : Applied Research + Design Publishing, an imprint of ORO Editions, Inc., [2018]
© 2018

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Description 449 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Contents Contents: Themes : Architecture is everything all at once / Michael Bell -- Contexts / Marlon Blackwell, Tanzil Shafique -- The material inquiry of construction / Lawrence Scarpa -- Quiet material / Tom Kundig -- Iterative forms / Carlos Jimenez -- Spirit of objects / Wendell Burnette -- Open tectonics / Wes Jones -- Figuration / Brian Delford Andrews. Premise: new essentialism. Thresholds and propositions: precedents and inquiries : Re-visioning typology -- Systematized logic + abstract geometry "Temple of Artemis" -- 20 propositions for suburban living -- Experience -- Experience + material + form "Baths of Caracalla" -- [x]perience mechanisms -- Spaceframes -- Formal inquiries into material logics -- Structure + form "Chartres Cathedral" -- Intensity frames -- Conditional application -- Visual composition + geometry "Palazzo Rucellai" -- Tower house -- Fabricating experience through material systems -- Fabrication + assembly "Crystal Palace" -- Light frames -- Density frames -- Furlined. Point - counterpoint: interview. Select additional works. Endnotes and image credits
Summary Summary: New Essentialism: Material Architecture' examines how architecture engages material to create effect through five critical historical thresholds represented by analytical precedents coupled with projective experimental design project families. Unpacking the fundamental methodologies of their geometric, material, spatial, and effectual sensibilities, each threshold builds an examination that reveals the essential methods and processes of design, illustrating the basis for the argument for a 'New Essentialism': its characteristics, methods and the sensibilities that mark its definition
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Architectural design -- United States.
Architecture, Domestic -- United States.
Architecture, Modern -- 21st century.
ISBN 1939621801
9781939621801