• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Tectonic Articulation: Making Engineering Logics Speak
  • Contributor: Schumacher, Patrik
  • imprint: Wiley, 2014
  • Published in: Architectural Design
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1002/ad.1780
  • ISSN: 1554-2769; 0003-8504
  • Keywords: Visual Arts and Performing Arts ; Architecture
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  • Description: <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>As much of the responsibility of a building's physical design and fabrication has increasingly shifted to engineers, spatial communication has remained the sole and significant preserve of architects. <jats:bold>Patrik Schumacher</jats:bold>, Partner at Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA), explains how tectonic articulation through architectural design – the selection and employment of technically engineered forms and details – enables the legible enunciation of a building's forms in a manner that has the potential to give it social meaning and expression.</jats:p>