BETWEEN FRAMES
As architecture rethinks the distinctions between structure and ornament, function and decor, form and facade, the surface no longer has the status of decorative element but becomes an entity in itself. In contemporary times, surface turns into actual architecture. In construction, it exerts great seduction as a material site of inventive fabrication. - When worked on as an essential texture of visual fabrication, the surface is treated as a pliable fabric of communication
Giuliana Bruno, Surface: Matters of Aesthetics, Materiality and Media (2014)
The real color comes when you look at the photographs, the glossy plates in all their splendor. “Tout, au monde, existe pour aboutir au Livre.” Well, at least the picture book! And many are the postmodern buildings that seem to have been designed for photography, where alone they flash into brilliant existence and actuality with all the phosphorescence of the high-tech orchestra on CD.
Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism (1991)
Mock-Up of Final Elevation Model
Precedent
Ishii Kazuhiro/ Imi Knoebel
Final Composition
