Media Facades
Language: English
Year of publication: 2009
Pages: 248
Cover: Hardback
Illustrations: 204 colour illustrations
Dimensions: 8.7 x 9.4 in
- Fundamental introduction to a topic of current interest
- Overview about the varied media facades that exist, their technology and future development
- More than 30 breathtaking media facades by ag4, realities:united, UNStudio, Urbanscreen, among others
The book introduces a canon of media architectural terminology and shows the history of media façades through early examples of embedding media in architecture, like Times Square, New York, and Centre Pompidou, Paris.
State-of-the-art developments are presented with approx. 30 international projects of contemporary media architecture separated and classified in 7 different technical categories: projection facades, rear projection facades, window raster animation, display facades, illuminated facades, mechanical facades and voxel facades. Each of these 7 categories gets introduced via explaining the technology and through the means of built examples. In each example project data are presented with a brief description about the project and the used technology.
An analysis of the representational characteristics of media façades lead to an introduction of possible forms of media content and completes the book.
M. Hank Haeusler, Dr. Ing., studied architecture in Japan, the Netherlands, Germany and finished his Ph.D. at the RMIT School of Architecture in Melbourne, Australia in 2007. His media consulting office City Lights Architecture Store/CLAStore combines his research interests with application in praxis.
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