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51 results

Saving Small Towns
- Paper by Leah Kemp,
Small towns are dying, and it is not just because of their dwindling economies. The physical fabric of our communities is literally crumbling. A…
July 20, 2024
Doubling Mies
- Paper by Timothy Brown AIA NCARB CSI, Associate Professor
Mies van der Rohe’s concurrently designed projects for Commonwealth Promenade Apartments (1953-1956) and the Esplanade Apartments (1953-1957), saw…
March 22, 2020
Teaching Facades
- Paper by Alex Terzich,
As facades become more sophisticated and complex, more detail-intensive and performance-critical, it's vital that architecture students develop a…
March 14, 2018
Pioneering the Structural Terracotta Mullion Façade
- Paper by Victoria Ereskina, Façade Design Professional John Neary, Sr. Façade Specialist
Architects today must explore alternative enclosure materials to meet evolving energy codes and embodied carbon regulations. Terra cotta has been…
October 11, 2022
Nested Density
- Paper by Wendy Cox, Architect
Projecting imagery onto building facades is not only becoming a marketing necessity for successful urban spectacles but is also altering social urban

March 15, 2020
Vertical Louvered Solar Control
- Paper by Clifton Fordham, RA, LEED AP,
Exterior shading devices, when typically used, are horizontal planes that are most effective at the south face of buildings in the northern…
March 14, 2018
Autonomous or Appropriate
- Paper by Katrin Terstegen, Assistant Professor
This paper examines two profoundly different design approaches: one, herein called ‘autonomous’, where the building’s design is governed by internal…
March 23, 2020
Thinking About Facades
- Paper by Marc Schiler, FASES, LC,
There have been three decades of liberating developments in the application of descriptive geometry and freeform design methods, as well as the…
March 14, 2018
Air Spaces Changed Everything
- Paper by Gerry Lang, M.Arch., (Penn, 2008), B. Arch (hons., Toronto, 1978) OAA, AIA,TSA, Senior Associate, Leader of Facades Group
This abstract proposes that architectural facade design over the last 60 years has convulsed in light of two disruptions: air spaces which create…
March 19, 2020
The Myth of Simplicity
- Paper by Gerry Lang,
There were good why reasons early US Modernism first evolved in California– wide open sites with no constraints (physical or zoning), and effectively…
October 11, 2022
Structuring Skin
- Paper by John Neary,
Curtain wall is the prevailing type of enclosure on modern buildings because of its economy, its independence from structure that allows flexibility…
March 14, 2018