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Patterns, Fabrics, Prototypes, Tessellations
10.1002/ad.975.abs
New technologies have enabled architects to develop sophisticated patterning techniques. This is epitomised by the expressive possibilities now available to the building envelope: smooth geometries, tessellation, material textures and layers, such as solar shading. For Alejandro Zaera‐Polo of Foreign Office Architects, though, patterns have cultural and political possibilities far beyond mere decoration, enabling new practices to address in the urban context some of the crucial problems posed by globalisation: bridging the dichotomy between tabula rasa and contextualism, and the articulation between the local and global. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Patterns, Fabrics, Prototypes, Tessellations
10.1002/ad.975.abs
New technologies have enabled architects to develop sophisticated patterning techniques. This is epitomised by the expressive possibilities now available to the building envelope: smooth geometries, tessellation, material textures and layers, such as solar shading. For Alejandro Zaera‐Polo of Foreign Office Architects, though, patterns have cultural and political possibilities far beyond mere decoration, enabling new practices to address in the urban context some of the crucial problems posed by globalisation: bridging the dichotomy between tabula rasa and contextualism, and the articulation between the local and global. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Patterns, Fabrics, Prototypes, Tessellations
Zaera‐Polo, Alejandro (author)
Architectural Design ; 79 ; 18-27
2009-11-01
10 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
Foster's Swiss Re (2004) , CAM manufacturing , ‘object‐oriented’ politics , glass silk‐screening technology , ‘Folding Architecture’ , the building envelope , circle‐packed geometry , Herzog & de Meuron , Team X , relations of exteriority , molecular facialisation of the envelope , Affordable Housing in Carabanchel, Madrid , MVRDV's ‘datascapes’ , Gehry's fish‐like skins , FOA, Institute of Legal Medicine, Madrid, 2006 , Casa da Musica in Porto , dichotomy between tabula rasa and contextualism , Dutch Structuralists: Japanese Metabolists , Beijing National Stadium (Bird's Nest, 2008) , merge the frame and the infill , architecture as a mere representation of politics , Rem Koolhaas , silicon joints , new expressions and political affects , diagrids and non‐orthogonal tessellation patterns , Chirac's French law on secularity , PTW's Beijing Water Cube , FOA, John Lewis Building, Highcross retail and cinema complex, Leicester, 2008 , bubble envelopes , emerging social assemblages , Spanish Pavilion for Aichi , Louis Kahn , Peter Eisenman's master plan for Rebstock Park , Future Systems' Selfridges department store in Birmingham , OMA's Seattle Public Library , Beijing Olympics projects , patterns as a critical expressive device , perception of the object as a whole , OMA, CCTV Building, Beijing, China, 2009 , plastic waterproofing membranes , affects of effacement, liquefaction, de‐striation , flickering moiré effect , Highcross retail and cinema complex , monolithic, differentiated, frameless, and rootless , tracé regulateur , UNStudio , Barcelona Coastal Park and Auditoria , Le Ricolais , contemporary envelopes , Herzog & de Meuron's Prada Tokyo , Trevor Phillips' ‘Britishness’ , resonance between literal performance and affect , Foreign Office Architects (FOA), Greg Lynn FORM , ‘Intensive Coherence’ , artificial intelligence , contemporary desire for sealed immunising atmospheres , Trinity EC3 office complex , Iconic Towers in Dubai , Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao , Reiser + Umemoto , FOA, Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication, Greenwich, London , due for completion 2010 , ‘affect‐driven’ political forms , curtain wall systems , Nervi
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