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Alejandro Zaera-Polo

The Ecologies of the Building Envelope

A Material History and Theory of Architectural Surfaces

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The 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 operation… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Anderson, Jeffrey
  • ISBN: 978-1-63840-948-9
  • EAN: 9781638409489
  • Produktnummer: 36480888
  • Verlag: Actar D
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
  • Seitenangabe: 380 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 190'817 KB

Über den Autor


Alejandro Zaera Polo is an architect and an architectural theorist. He has an MARCH II with Distinction from the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. He worked for the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in Rotterdam, before establishing Foreign Office Architects in 1993 in London. He started AZPML as a legacy practice of FOA after its dissolution in 2011. Besides his professional practice, Alejandro was the Dean of Princeton School of Architecture and of the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam. He has been Visiting Professor at Yale, Columbia, and UCLA and was a Unit Master at the Architectural Association in London. He has been a frequent contributor to professional publications such as El Croquis, Quaderns, A+U, Arch+, Log, AD, Harvard Design Magazine and Geographies.

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