The Ecologies of the Building Envelope (English, Alejandro Zaera-Polo | Jeffrey Anderson)

About the Book

The Ecologies of the Building 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…

ISBN: 9781948765183