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More About This Title Surface Consciousness
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This new edition of the cutting-edge Architectural Design brings together a number of emergent works that reflect the idea that surface is more than just a crust or merely a structure onto which architectural work is built.
It expresses the notion that surface is becoming increasingly important as it poses new ways of seeing the world, physically and theoretically.
Provides coverage of cutting edge architecture and theoretical articlesIncorporating some of the most recent digital and technical advances this is AD keeping its finger on the pulse of progressIncludes some of the world leading theoreticians and architects currently involved in this fieldEnglish
Introduction (Mark Taylor).
Between Surface and Substance (Mark Burry).
Philibert de L'Orme Pavilion: Towards an Associative (Bernard Cache).
Amorphous Structures (Horst Kiechle).
Surface-Talk (Mark Taylor).
Volcanic Matter: The Architecture of Whakaari/White Island (Sarah Treadwell).
Masked Matter and Other Diagrams (Hans Frei).
From Microcosm to Macrocosm: The Surface of Fuller and Sadao's US Pavillion at Montreal Expo '67 (Timothy M. Rohan).
In Search of the Plasma Membrane (Michael Trudgeon).
Conveying 3-D Shape and Depth with Textured and Transparent Surfaces(Victoria Interrante).
Sticks and Stones: Skin and Bones (Peter Wood).
Ornamental Operations (Brent Allpress).
Seduction, Subversion and Predation: Surface Characteristics (Michael J. Ostwald).
Sewing Surface: Ground Matters Beneath the Eiffel Towel (Julieanna Preston).
Surface: Architecture's Expanded Field (Karen Burns).
Contributor Biographies.
Interior Eye: Deluxe Apartments in the Sky (Craig Kellogg).
Practice Profile: Kathryn Findlay of Ushida Findlay (Neil Spiller).
Building Profile: Federation Square, Melbourne (Jeremy Melvin).
Engineering Exegesis: Blurring the Lines: Mediating Between Analogue and Digital Skill Sets (Mark Bury).
Highlights from Wiley Academy (Jane Peyton).
Congratulatios to Jayne Merkel (Helen Castle).
Invisibly Informal (Lucy Bullivant).
Site Lines: Building Exploratory (Hannah Ford).
