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Author Pell, Ben.

Title The articulate surface : ornament and technology in contemporary architecture / Ben Pell ; with contributions by Andreas Hild, Sam Jacob, Alejandro Zaera-Polo.

Imprint Basel : Birkhäuser, 2010.
LOCATION CALL # STATUS
 Cork Centre for Architectural Education  729 PELL    CHECK SHELF
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Contents The articulate surface -- Applied -- Polygreen House -- Frog Queen -- Victoria University Online Training Center -- Eberswalde Technical School Library -- BFTS Sports Science Center -- Walch's Event Catering Center -- Utrecht University Library -- Perforated/cut -- Sfera Building -- Leaf Chapel -- Restaurant Aoba-Tei (AIP) -- Pachinko Tiger Kagitori (PTK) -- Hairywood -- André de Gouveia Residence -- de Young Museum -- Layered -- Surface as manifesto -- Airspace Tokyo -- Villa de Heerlijkheid -- John Lewis Department Store -- Louis Vuitton Hilton Plaza -- Dior Ginza -- Formed/cast -- Building thing mixing -- Business and fitness center -- Apartment building -- Mornington Center -- Facade refurbishment -- Sint Lucas Art Academy -- 40 Bond Street -- Atelier Bardill -- Chokkura Plaza -- Shin-Yatsushiro Monument -- Living Madrid -- Stacked/tiled -- Patterns and fabrics -- Spanish Pavilion, Expo 2005 -- Carabanchel social housing -- House in Aggstall -- Beijing National Aquatic Center (Water Cube) -- Gantenbein Vineyard facade -- Liberal Arts and Science College -- 290 Mulberry Street.
Summary Ornament is currently acquiring a new status in architecture. This book looks at the wealth of new possibilities of interaction between between function and decoration, volume and surface, and load-bearing structure and building skin.
Subject Decoration and ornament, Architectural.
Decoration and ornament, Architectural -- Technological innovations.
Facades.
ISBN 9783034602211 (hbk.)
3034602219 (hbk.)
Description 200 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 25 x 27 cm.
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