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Surface Architecture (Record no. 578647)
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| fixed length control field | 02138nam a22002057a 4500 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 250805b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780262621946 |
| Paper back/Hardbound | pbk |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | eng |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 720.105 |
| Item number | LEA |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Leatherbarrow, David |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Surface Architecture |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | / David Leatherbarrow And Mohsen Mostafavi. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | Cambridge |
| Name of publisher | Mit Press |
| Year of publication | c2002 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 264 p. |
| Other physical details | : ill. |
| Dimensions | ; 24 cm. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc | Includes bibliographies and index |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | 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 design can take advantage of production methods so that architecture neither ignores nor is 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 modernist "free facade," presumed 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. But the properties of a building's surface - whether 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." "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, and Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Architecture, Modern |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Mostafavi, Mohsen |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Reference |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Full call number | Accession Number | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Anna Centenary Library | Anna Centenary Library | 6TH FLOOR, B WING | 08.11.2010 | 720.105 LEA | 332280 | 05.08.2025 | Reference |