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- catalog abstract "Visually, many contemporary buildings either reflect their systems of production or recollect earlier styles and motifs. This text explores ways that design can take advantage of production methods so that architecture is neither independent of nor dominated by technology.".
- catalog contributor b12655518.
- catalog contributor b12655519.
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description "1. Introduction: Why surface architecture? -- 2. Framing containment -- Framing the face -- Monumental volumes -- Representation and production -- Minimal surfaces -- The factory -- Total containment -- Chicago frames -- 3. Window/wall -- De-vignolization -- Viewing the landscape -- Opacity and transparency -- The oblique -- The painted view -- The depth of the window wall -- Taking stock -- Border adjustments -- Vertical and horizontal -- Misalignments -- Cladding as clothing -- Windows and/as walls -- 4. The appearance of covering -- Atectonic fabrications: Sliding surfaces -- Masking and revealing -- Symbolic surfaces -- The impressed facade: Tattoo -- Surface appliqué -- Impressions -- Planarity and surface impressions -- Aesthetics in an industrial age -- Ideality of the constructed fact -- Architecture for industry -- Factory-made -- 5. Adjusting standards -- The light of industry -- Modern appearances and practicality -- Prefabrication and personality -- Architecture en série -- Fabrication processes -- "For many years I wore the leather apron" -- 6. Premade-remade -- Open and closed systems of construction -- Brutal facts of building -- Facts of building and of life -- Invention and limited means -- Chance construction -- As found -- Formlessness -- 7. Technique and appearance: The task of the present -- Distraction -- Modern building and historical memory -- Representation and nonrepresentation -- Building images -- Postscript -- Technique -- Appropriation.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-255) and index.".
- catalog description "Visually, many contemporary buildings either reflect their systems of production or recollect earlier styles and motifs. This text explores ways that design can take advantage of production methods so that architecture is neither independent of nor dominated by technology.".
- catalog extent "264 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0262134071 (hc. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press,".
- catalog subject "720/.1/05 21".
- catalog subject "Architecture and technology.".
- catalog subject "Architecture.".
- catalog subject "Materials Appearance.".
- catalog subject "NA2540 .L36 2002".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Introduction: Why surface architecture? -- 2. Framing containment -- Framing the face -- Monumental volumes -- Representation and production -- Minimal surfaces -- The factory -- Total containment -- Chicago frames -- 3. Window/wall -- De-vignolization -- Viewing the landscape -- Opacity and transparency -- The oblique -- The painted view -- The depth of the window wall -- Taking stock -- Border adjustments -- Vertical and horizontal -- Misalignments -- Cladding as clothing -- Windows and/as walls -- 4. The appearance of covering -- Atectonic fabrications: Sliding surfaces -- Masking and revealing -- Symbolic surfaces -- The impressed facade: Tattoo -- Surface appliqué -- Impressions -- Planarity and surface impressions -- Aesthetics in an industrial age -- Ideality of the constructed fact -- Architecture for industry -- Factory-made -- 5. Adjusting standards -- The light of industry -- Modern appearances and practicality -- Prefabrication and personality -- Architecture en série -- Fabrication processes -- "For many years I wore the leather apron" -- 6. Premade-remade -- Open and closed systems of construction -- Brutal facts of building -- Facts of building and of life -- Invention and limited means -- Chance construction -- As found -- Formlessness -- 7. Technique and appearance: The task of the present -- Distraction -- Modern building and historical memory -- Representation and nonrepresentation -- Building images -- Postscript -- Technique -- Appropriation.".
- catalog title "Surface architecture / David Leatherbarrow and Mohsen Mostafavi.".
- catalog type "text".