"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."

Oscar Riera Ojeda, Byron Hawes – Façades: a Visual Compendium of Modern Architectural Styles

Nella creazione di Clex – Cluster of Experts, il nuovo format di crescita professionale di Forma Mentis, stiamo organizzando la biblioteca ideale di un progettista nell’era digitale. Ogni lunedì un libro per iniziare la settimana. Per questo libro devo ringraziare in particolare il mio collaboratore Federico Nigro.

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Oscar Riera Ojeda, Byron HawesFaçades: a Visual Compendium of Modern Architectural Styles. Ed Prestel.

Un sontuoso volume in copertina rigida, un testo imprescindibile sull’argomento facciate. Il lavoro di Ojeda e Hawes cataloga un centinaio di progetti di architettura contemporanea sulla base delle caratteristiche di facciata, prendendo in considerazione:

  • le forme dominanti costituiscono i capitoli principali, tra cerchi, triangoli, quadrati, rettangoli, rombi e poligoni;
  • i materiali tra calcestruzzo, legno, metallo, pietra, plastica, mattoni, vetro e tessuto;
  • la tecnologia costruttiva della facciata, ovvero facciata continua, muratura, prefabbricata, rivestita, stratificata, pannellata, perforata e pelle ornamentale;
  • la funzione dell’edificio, ovvero residenziale, commerciale, istituzionale, uffici, alberghiero, sanità, sport, edilizia scolastica, edificio museale, industriale, religioso, intrattenimento, trasporti, edificio pubblico.

«Façade – A metonym for architecture as a whole, the façade is the element most invested with political and cultural meaning. Hence the rise of the ‘façadism’: the focus of the façade to the detriment of the rest». – Rem Koolhaas

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