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오랜 건축 역사에서 '깊이'와 반대되는 개념으로 가볍게 치부되어 왔던 '표면'에 초점을 맞춘 책. 건물과 건물을 사용하는 사람들이 소통하는 가장 중요한 통로가 바로 건물의 표면이라는 것을 전제로 논의하고 있다. 저자는 건물의 표면에서 벌어지는 담론의 폭을 근대 이후 모든 건축의 문제로 확장했다. 그리고 건물의 표면을 인간의 삶과 기술이 예술로서 만나는 접점으로 제시하고 있다.

이 책은 표면을 통해 생산과 표상의 괴리를 극복하는 새로운 현대 건축의 가능성을 진지하게 모색하고, 저자들의 새로운 시각으로 근대 건축의 계보를 정리한다. 앨버트 칸이나 리처드 노이트라와 같이 기존의 근대 건축사에서 중요하게 다루지 않았던 건축가들과 그들의 작업을 '표면'이라는 새로운 각도에서 조명하고 있다. '표면'을 화두로 건축을 이해할 수 있는 통로가 될만한 책.

Winner of the 2003 CICA Bruno Zevi Book Award presented by the International Committee of Architectural Critics

Visually, many contemporary buildings either reflect their systems of production or recollect earlier styles and motifs. This division between production and representation is in some ways an extension of that between modernity and tradition. In this book, David Leatherbarrow and Mohsen Mostafavi explore ways that design can take advantage of production methods such that architecture is neither independent of nor dominated by technology.

Leatherbarrow and Mostafavi begin with the theoretical and practical isolation of the building surface as the subject of architectural design. The autonomy of the surface, the "free facade," presumes a distinction between the structural and nonstructural elements of the building, between the frame and the cladding. Once the skin of the building became independent of its structure, it could just as well hang like a curtain, or like clothing. The focus of the relationship between structure and skin is the architectural surface. In tracing the handling of this surface, the authors examine both contemporary buildings and those of the recent past. Architects discussed include Albert Kahn, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Alison and Peter Smithson, Alejandro de la Sota, Robert Venturi, Jacques Herzog, and Pierre de Meuron.

The properties of a building's surface -- whether it is made of concrete, metal, glass, or other materials -- are not merely superficial; they construct the spatial effects by which architecture communicates. Through its surfaces a building declares both its autonomy and its participation in its surroundings.

Winner of the 2003 CICA Bruno Zevi Book Award presented by the International Committee of Architectural CriticsVisually, many contemporary buildings either reflect their systems of production or recollect earlier styles and motifs. This division between production and representation is in some ways an extension of that between modernity and tradition. In this book, David Leatherbarrow and Mohsen Mostafavi explore ways that design can take advantage of production methods such that architecture is neither independent of nor dominated by technology.Leatherbarrow and Mostafavi begin with the theoretical and practical isolation of the building surface as the subject of architectural design. The autonomy of the surface, the "free facade," presumes a distinction between the structural and nonstructural elements of the building, between the frame and the cladding. Once the skin of the building became independent of its structure, it could just as well hang like a curtain, or like clothing. The focus of the relationship between structure and skin is the architectural surface. In tracing the handling of this surface, the authors examine both contemporary buildings and those of the recent past. Architects discussed include Albert Kahn, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Alison and Peter Smithson, Alejandro de la Sota, Robert Venturi, Jacques Herzog, and Pierre de Meuron.The properties of a building's surface—whether it is made of concrete, metal, glass, or other materials—are not merely superficial; they construct the spatial effects by which architecture communicates. Through its surfaces a building declares both its autonomy and its participation in its surroundings.

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