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摘要

Dancing windows: the status quornIn the paper, Dancing windows: the restless facade (arq 10/3~+4, pp. 191-200), Fiona McLachlan explores the current tendencies of contemporary architects to create 'offbeat facades'. The author refers to the classically ordered facade, the influence of interior layout and structure on external form, and the facade as skin, as a Venturi decorated shed, a finely crafted Jean Prouve technical skin or a Mannerist approach, exemplified by Wiel Arets' Utrecht University Library and a great deal of Herzog and de Meuron's current output. There is also a commentary on Le Corbusier's 'free skin', the facade free from the constraints of load-bearing necessity.