Online Atlas – Contemprary architects
This part of the atlas features a low-res version of the boards we recieved from many architecture and engineering offices. The designers were asked to make a statement about their notion of details and the role they play in their daily practice, presenting a detailed section of three or four among their projects.
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Burkhalter – Sumi – Timber construction: facade/roof
What is the reason for these architects’ intense preoccupation with wood? Christian Sumi’s father was…

Carlo Cappai, Maria Alessandra Segantini C+S Architects – God’s homes
Der liebe Gott steckt im Detail – the research of Aby Warburg is epigraphed and…

Cino Zucchi – CZA Cino Zucchi Architetti – DJ architecture
STATEMENT – As recent as a few decades ago, the act of designing an architectural…

Conzett Bronzini Gartmann – Bridges sections. Concept versus image
In the design of timber bridges durability is the crucial issue. In the Scandinavian countries,…

Dick van Gameren, Mecanoo Architecten – Concrete Detail
In architecture, the connection of the skin and the structure is the primary detail. Coming…

Dominique Perrault Architecture – Vanishing architecture, the aesthetic of disappearance
The creation of architecture is undeniably an act of authority. Our impression of architecture is…

Elasticospa +3 – The reason for detail
Detail is another step towards reality, the score that makes understandable what must be the…

Emilio Tuñón Arquitectos – Start & Oscillation
One of the challenges -i.e., one of the opportunitiesof an architect’s work resides in his…