104th ACSA Annual Meeting Proceedings, Shaping New Knowledges

On Sufficient Density, or, Things Approximate a Wall

Annual Meeting Proceedings

Author(s): Andrew Holder

The exterior is always an interior…in architectural ensembles, the elements of the siteitself come into play by virtue of their cubic volume, their density and the quality ofthe material of which they are composed, bringing sensations which are very definiteand very varied…The elements of the site rise up like walls panoplied in the power oftheir cubic co-efficient, stratification, material, etc., like the walls of a room.1

Volume Editors
Robert Corser & Sharon Haar

ISBN
978-1-944214-03-6