03/09/2019
in a physical appearances, it's details for details…
to produce this 1030 pages book was a big challenges, tested the chinese labor's patiences and publisher's money… cutting of over 500 index carves at the open side and top side…
http://detail-kultur.com
Christoph Kumpusch called three challenges:
Put 10 lenses on 13 projects by Zaha Hadid, Kazuyo Sejima, Eric Owen Moss, Lebbeus Woods, Carme Pinós, Peter Cook, Thom Mayne, Peter Zumthor, Neil M. Denari, Charles Renfro, Steven Holl, Giuseppe Lignano and Ada Tolla.
Architectural details are typically communicated through technical drawings. A photograph or model might convey details in context or the ultimate visual effect generated by a detail, but the drawing remains its standard referent and it is from drawings that details are archived, revised and appropriated.
One challenge of Detail Kultur is: How do we come to understand the relevance of details through their drawings? How are drawings handled as more than illustrations for text? Can text serve the drawings and suggest new ways of looking at these drawings?
Another challenge involves opening up details as typological elements with their own histories and cultural associations. A door, for example, is a physical thing and a metaphysical construct – and details get implicated in both directions of door-ness. Is it fair game to recollect all the implications of a door or threshold when also studying their handling by select architects for specific constructions?
Lastly, how can one reformat a book to treat a subject that is not best served by a classical progression of arguments? Multiple case studies, many details, a profusion of drawings are a part of the story and their organization as a cross-referencing index is central to this investigation. In this way it is a compendium, but also a trigger for new work and research.
published by aadcu in 2016
