STRUCTURAL SKIN

摘要

Furniture design has long allowed architects to explore ideas without having to worry about ensuring weather protection. From the late 1930s through the mid-1940s, the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, was a hotbed of such activity, with architects and designers such as Eero Saarinen, Ralph Rapson, and Charles and Ray Eames achieving great lightness and strength in furniture by bending and shaping plywood and fiberglass into undulating or doubly curved surfaces.