Constructing Building Enclosures: Architectural History, Technology and Poetics in the Postwar Era

Clifton Fordham is a registered architect and Assistant Professor at Temple University, where he teaches building design and building technology. His current focus is buillding enclosures with an emphasis on how their design relates to the sun. He is a graduate of the Yale School of Architecture and Howard University.

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Enclosure Expanded Clifton Fordham PART 1 Framing Enclosures 1 Cladding the Palazzo Lavoro: Pier Luigi Nervi and "The Borderline Between Decoration and Structure." Thomas Leslie 2 The Decorative Modernism of Aluminium Cladding: Architecture and Industry Tait Johnson 3 The United Nations Secretariat, Its Glass Facades and Air-conditining,1947-1950 Joseph M. Siry 4 Victor Lundy, Walter Bird, and the Promise of Pneumatic Architecture Whitney Moon 5 Saarinen's Shells: The Evolved Influence of Engineering and Construction Rob Whitehead 6 Coenesthetic Comfort: Between Climate and the Body Andrew Cruse PART 2 Assembling Constructions 7 Responsive Modernism: Louis Kahn's Weiss Residence Enclosure Clifton Fordham 8 Intent vs. Interpretation: the Prosaic Poetics of Leweremtz & Nyberg Matthew Hall 9 "The Material of the Future": Precast Concrete at the 1962 Seattle World's Fair Tyler S. Sprague 10 The Concrete Facades of Paul Rudolph's Christian Science Building, 1965-1986 Scott Murray 11 Bill Hajjar's Air-Wall: A Mid-Twentieth Century Four-Sided Double Skin Facade Ute Poerschke and Mahyar Hadighi 12 Defining the Double-Skin Facade in the Post-war Era Mary Ben Bonham 13 Enclosure as Ecological Apparatus: Biosphere 2's Far-From-Equilibrium "Human Experiment" Meredith Sattler Index