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The glass skin
After the construction of Joseph Paxton’s Crystal Palace, glass became a constituent part of a…
The curtain wall
The curtain wall originated with the introduction of frame construction (first steel and then concrete)…
Timber construction
Timber If one thinks of Sigfried Giedion’s Bauen in Frankreich (1928), iron and reinforced concrete…
The cladding
The cladding Any good architect of the 19th century knew that in order to shape…
String courses and mouldings
“It should be noted that the more walls rise and extend upwards, the more they…
The cornice
The design of the base, the positions of string courses, the handling of the building…
Grafton Architects – Making walls
Universita’ Luigi Bocconi Milano (Italy), 2008 Conceived as piece of city fabric, this University has…
Bruno Fioretti Marquez – Lost in translation?
The complexity of the building’s technology has grown exponentially in the last decades. In the…
