The Façade as an Architectural Interior

Façade is the architectural place where private and public meet and the building’s “face”. The designer can design the façade to express the inside, the reaction to the outside, or as an independent mask hiding the interiors. But façade can be not only a mere skin, but a device with depth, density, thickness. The portals and prothyrums in medieval religious buildings are devices that anticipates the rituals and spaces of the interiors.

Volume Editors
Amir Ameri & Rebecca O'Neal Dagg

ISBN
978-1-944214-14-2