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Behind Architectural Filters : Phenomena of Interference.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Guitart, Miguel.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication Page
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Foreword: Harmonic Interference
  • 1 Introduction: Materializing Light and Gaze
  • 2 The Filter as a Limit of Space
  • Approaching the Idea of the Limit
  • Transforming Matter
  • Contour Conditions
  • On the Geometry of Filters
  • From Tradition to Virtuality: Historiographic Categories
  • The Dissipated Space Behind the Filter
  • 3 The Filter as a Transitional Space
  • A Place of Lights and Shadows
  • The Hand and the Horizon
  • Exterior and Interior Landscapes
  • The Transitional Space: Ma and Engawa
  • 4 The Filter as Structure and Construction
  • Natural Structure and Artificial Structure
  • Naturalized Architectural Filters: Filters of Effect
  • Architecturalized Natural Filters: Filters of Mimesis
  • The Structure of the Filter: Operations of Subtraction and Addition
  • The Stereotomic Filter: Predominance of Matter over Air
  • The Tectonic Filter: Predominance of Air over Matter
  • From the Perforated Box to the Disaggregated Framework
  • 5 Generative Strategies
  • Strategies of Origin. Earth Filters and Air Filters
  • Earth Filters: Royal Bath. Comares Palace, La Alhambra. Granada, Spain. Fourteenth Century
  • Filtering Strategies at the Royal Bath
  • Air Filters: Recoletos Court. Madrid, Spain. Eduardo Torroja, Secundino Zuazo, 1935
  • Filtering Strategies at the Recoletos Court
  • Conclusions
  • Strategies of Density. Heavy Filters and Light Filters
  • Heavy Filters: Melnikov House. Moscow, Russia. Konstantin S. Melnikov, 1927
  • Filtering Strategies at the Melnikov House
  • Light Filters: Hunter College, Bronx, New York, United States. Marcel Breuer, Robert F. Gatje, 1959
  • Filtering Strategies at Shuster Hall
  • Conclusions
  • Strategies of Thickness. Shallow Filters and Deep Filters.
  • Shallow Filters: Sarkhej Roza. Ahmedabad, India. Fifteenth Century
  • Filtering Strategies at Sarkhej Roza
  • Deep Filters: Tower of Shadows. Chandigarh, India. Le Corbusier, 1956-1988
  • Filtering Strategies at the Tower of Shadows
  • Conclusions
  • Strategies of Function. Structural Filters and Enclosing Filters
  • Structural Filters: Public Library. Seattle, WA, United States. Rem Koolhaas, Joshua Prince-Ramus, 1999-2004
  • Filtering Strategies at the Seattle Public Library
  • Enclosing Filters: Dominus Winery. Napa Valley, CA, United States. Herzog &amp
  • de Meuron, 1998
  • Filtering Strategies at Dominus Winery
  • Conclusions
  • Message Strategies. Ground Filters and Figure Filters
  • Ground Filters: Heilige Familie Church. Oberhausen, Germany. Rudolf Schwarz, 1956-1958
  • Filtering Strategies at Heilige Familie Church
  • Figure Filters: Nôtre Dame du Haut. Ronchamp, France. Le Corbusier, 1955
  • Filtering Strategies at Ronchamp
  • Conclusions
  • 6 Conclusions: Behind Architectural Filters
  • Index.

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