Finishing in Architecture : Polishing, Completing, Ending (Hardcover)

1. Introduction: In Lieu of an Afterword? 2. Works at Work, Today and Tomorrow??INTERLUDE: Creative Works 1??3. Prelude to the Interludes: Creative Works? 4. Dust-Cot: A Cast of Interior Affinities? 5. Knitting Tensile Membranes for Ornament, Tactility, and Visual Effects? 6. Sharp Shadows: Cutting an Architectural Treatise??SECTION 1 Surfaces: Finishing as Polishing??7. Introduction? 8. Polishing: Finishing that is Never Finished? 9. Sine Fine: On Polishing and Finishing Ancient Roman Domestic Architecture? 10. Ruskin and Emotive Architectural Finishes? 11. ‘Finishing’ the ‘Unfinished’: The History of Cladded Surfaces of Hans Scharoun’s Berlin Philharmonic Concert Hall? 12. The Finishing of Surfaces in the Work of Carlo Scarpa? 13. On the Inadequacy of Accounting for Architectural Finish? 14. Brutalism: From Modern Utopia to the Modernity of the Real??INTERLUDE: Creative Works 2??15. Pulp Fiction: In Conversation with Marco Frascari on the Craft of Architectural Drawing? 16. Pursuit of Design Extremes? 17. The Expanding World of LEAPs??SECTION 2 Projects: Finishing as Completing? 18. Introduction? 19. Abandoned Incomplete/Complete Abandonment: Theme and Variations? 20. Building as New Beginning: The Absolute Negativity of the Maison Dom-ino? 21. Undoing Architecture: Gestaltung as Light-Space-Time Interpenetrations? 22. Architect/Client Philip Johnson: Between Seagram and the House at New Canaan? 23. Wolf House: A Thrice-Finished Prefab Midcentury Home? 24. Finishing and the Viridic: Reflections on the Preservation of Historic Landscapes? 25. (Un)finished Architectures and their Adaptations? 26. Completing in Time: Building on Site to Find a Different Ending??INTERLUDE: Creative Works 3??27. A Par?idia: The Belly of an Old Drawing? 28. Backward/Forward: ‘Non-Finito'? 29. Constructing Shadows in Marfa??SECTION 3 Times: Finishing as Endings??30. Introduction? 31. Hamiltonian’ Finishing: The Global-Local Architecture of Projective Geometry? 32. Zen: The Finishing of Architecture? 33. Surrealist Alchemy and the Transubstantiation of Reuse? 34. Through the Lens of a Building’s Afterlife: Institutionalizing Knowledge of Architectural Heritage as Performative Practice? 35. How to Unfinish Gracefully: An Encomium of Blank Walls, Stairs-to Nowhere, and-? 36. Always Unfinished: The German Pavilion in Barcelona? 37. Open-Ended Final Scenes for the Architectural Fascist Legacy in Bozen-Bolzano? 38. Liminal Temporality and the Architecture of ‘The Backrooms’??POSTLUDE??39. Towers of Babel by Marco Frascari