This publication focuses on detail in architectural design. Architects look for exciting ways of rendering the details of architectural concepts. Their concern is not just with the purely constructional aspect of details (wind- and waterproofing, for example), but above all with the architectural possibilities they reveal. It is in the details that the architectural idea is visualized. So these are strategic details, designed and made the way they are because the architectural concept demanded it.
The book gives an overview of the architectural detailing of a galaxy of prominent Dutch architectural practices of the moment. Rather than offering standard details, it shows details whose chief significance is contextual. The accompanying text explains how these architects are able to deploy details in such a way as to achieve maximum architectural effect with the result that the details form an important part of the architect's signature.
In separate chapters, the author describes the detailing philosophy of Wiel Arets, Benthem Crouwel, CEPEZED, Erick van Egeraat, Herman Hertzberger, Mecanoo, MVRDV, OMA, Hans Ruijssenaars, UN Studio, Rudy Uytenhaak and Koen van Velsen
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