The Architecture of the Facade | Architecture

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The Architecture of the Facade provides a comprehensive study of the facade as both a physical and cultural artifact highlighting its significance as a critical component of the civic realm and arguing for the restoration of the art of the facade as both a subject of study within academia and an aspiration within the profession at large. As the principal surface of mediation contextualization and representation the facade carries the lion’s share of responsibility for containing the internal environment and confronting the outer world. And yet in recent decades the very question of what exactly a facade is has been raised by the dramatic changes in building technology advances of parametric…