Vertical Louvered Solar Control
<p>Exterior shading devices, when typically used, are horizontal planes that are most effective at the south face of buildings in the northern…
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Transformation as Movement
<p>In 1888 the art historian Heinrich Wölfflin proposed the notion that the primary characteristic of baroque architecture is the illusion of…
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Thinking About Facades
There have been three decades of liberating developments in the application of descriptive geometry and freeform design methods, as well as the
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Teaching Facades
<p>As facades become more sophisticated and complex, more detail-intensive and performance-critical, it's vital that architecture students develop a…
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Structuring Skin
Curtain wall is the prevailing type of enclosure on modern buildings because of its economy, its independence from structure that allows flexibility
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Paul Rudolph's Christian Science Building
<p>This paper presents new historical research on the concrete facade of an important but relatively unknown and now demolished building by the…
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Patchwork
<p>It may be difficult for modern man to believe that what is known as handicraft was once the advanced manufacturing of the day. These techniques…
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Kinetics in Building Facades
<p>The prominence of climatically responsive building facades through the use of kinetics has proliferated in recent years due to a concern for the…
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Historical Evolution of Responsive Facades
<p>Responsive facade system is considered a major component of high-performance building envelope that is capable of responding to environmental…
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Nested Density
Projecting imagery onto building facades is not only becoming a marketing necessity for successful urban spectacles but is also altering social urban
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Autonomous or Appropriate
<p>This paper examines two profoundly different design approaches: one, herein called ‘autonomous’, where the building’s design is governed by…
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Developments in Gridshell Design
<p>In 1959 Heinz Isler challenged the world of concrete shell design by proposing a series of shapes for shells that were very different from what…
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Facade Games
<p>This paper provides an overview of a course focusing on the façade as taught to architecture students over a twenty-year period. The need for…
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Air Spaces Changed Everything
<p>This abstract proposes that architectural facade design over the last 60 years has convulsed in light of two disruptions: air spaces which create…
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The Tectonics of Flimsiness
Architecture has traditionally celebrated the joining of two building components or materials. Joinery serves as a key site for architectural
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Doubling Mies
<p>Mies van der Rohe’s concurrently designed projects for Commonwealth Promenade Apartments (1953-1956) and the Esplanade Apartments (1953-1957), saw…
