Tectonic Articulation: Making Engineering Logics Speak. (July 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Schumacher, Patrik; Garcia, Mark
• Is Part Of: Architectural design. Volume 84:Number 4(2014:Jul./Aug.)
• Page Start: 44
• Page End: 51
• Publication Date: 2014-07
• Subjects: 729
• DOI: 10.1002/ad.1780
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0003-8504

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="main" xml:lang="en"> <title>Abstract</title> <p>As much of the responsibility of a building's physical design and fabrication has increasingly shifted to engineers, spatial communication has remained the sole and significant preserve of architects. <bold>Patrik Schumacher</bold>, Partner at Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA), explains how tectonic articulation through architectural design – the selection and employment of technically engineered forms and details – enables the legible enunciation of a building's forms in a manner that has the potential to give it social meaning and expression.</p> </abstract>