LEADER 04128nam 22005533 450 001 9911046610703321 005 20230629224900.0 010 $a9781638409489 010 $a163840948X 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6612475 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6612475 035 $a(OCoLC)1251447715 035 $a(CKB)4940000000603774 035 $a(EXLCZ)994940000000603774 100 $a20210901d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Ecologies of the Building Envelope $eA Material History and Theory of Architectural Surfaces 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aNew York City :$cActar D,$d2021. 210 4$dİ2021. 215 $a1 online resource, (498 p.) 327 $aIntro -- 0.0-Envelopes: A Material and Environmental Ontology -- 1.0-Environmental Performances: The Teleology of the Envelope -- 1.1-Transparency: The Material Tempering of a Modern Ideology -- 1.2-Watertightness: From the Roof to the Wall -- 1.3-Airtightness: The Breathless Envelope -- 1.4-Insulation: The Rise of the Cellular -- 1.5-Economics: Depth, Weight, and Logistics -- 2.0-Components: Microevolutions in the Envelope -- 2.1-Mullions: The Miniaturization of the Envelope -- 2.2-Joints: Subject to Movement -- 2.3-Membranes: Performance without Form -- 3.0-Assembly Logics: The Tectonics of Modern Envelopes -- 3.1-Panelized: Embodying Labor -- 3.2-Layered: A Vertical Geology of Hidden Tectonics -- 4.0-Assemblages: The Speciation of the Envelope -- 4.1-Curtain Walls: Currency of the Modern Envelope -- 4.2-Double Fac?ades: Climate Incorporated -- 4.3-All-Glass Envelopes: Total Vision -- 4.4-Precast Concrete: Sin and Redemption -- 4.5-Screens: The Making of the Mask -- 4.6-Tensile Enclosures: From Comfort to Spectacle -- 4.7-Media Fac?ades: From Information to Atmosphere -- 4.8-Vegetated Envelopes: Greenwashing -- 4.9-Kinetic Assemblages: The Politics of Control -- Images Copyrights -- Glossary. 330 $aThe Ecologies of the Envelope theorizes the building envelope as a literal embodiment of the social, political, technological, and economic contingencies which have become embedded within it over the last century, analyzing the historical lineages, heroes and villains that helped define the complex material ecologies we see within the envelope today. While the façade is one of the most thoroughly theorized elements of architecture, it is also one of the most questioned since the end of the 19th century. Within the discipline of architecture, the traditional understanding of the façade focuses primarily on semiotic and compositional operations (such as proportional laws and linguistic codes), which are deployed on the building's surface. In contrast to this, our material and environmental theory of the envelope proposes that the exponential development of building technologies since the mid-19th century, coupled with new techniques of management and regulation, have diminished the compositional and ornamental capacities of the envelope in favor of material, quantitative, and technical performances. Rather than producing a stylistic analysis of the façade, we investigate the historical lineages of the performances, components, assembly types, and material entanglements that constitute the contemporary building envelope. 517 $aEcologies of the Building Envelope 606 $aArchitectural criticism$xCriticism 606 $aArchitecture$yHistory$yContemporary (1945-) 606 $aArchitecture 606 $aFacades 606 $aArquitectura$2UTDT 606 $aFachadas$2UTDT 615 0$aArchitectural criticism$xCriticism. 615 0$aArchitecture 615 0$aArchitecture. 615 0$aFacades. 615 7$aArquitectura 615 7$aFachadas 700 $aZaera-Polo$b Alejandro$01867745 701 $aAnderson$b Jeffrey$0257263 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911046610703321 996 $aThe Ecologies of the Building Envelope$94475440 997 $aUNINA