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  • Formaat: Hardback, 302 pages, kõrgus x laius: 246x174 mm, kaal: 770 g, 9 Line drawings, black and white; 25 Halftones, color; 61 Halftones, black and white; 25 Illustrations, color; 70 Illustrations, black and white
  • Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2025
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 1032722185
  • ISBN-13: 9781032722184
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  • Formaat: Hardback, 302 pages, kõrgus x laius: 246x174 mm, kaal: 770 g, 9 Line drawings, black and white; 25 Halftones, color; 61 Halftones, black and white; 25 Illustrations, color; 70 Illustrations, black and white
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  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 1032722185
  • ISBN-13: 9781032722184
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From the material to the procedural and the conceptual, this volume explores the practices of finishing in architecture within three currents: surfaces, projects, and most broadly, architectural times. It will be of interest to students and instructors of architecture and design, architectural historians, and other scholars.



Finishing in Architecture: Polishing, Completing, Ending explores the topic of finishing and the fascinating physical and metaphysical implications of its various conceptions in architecture. Finishing is essential to all human practices and concepts of time, yet simultaneously it is largely impossible to identify an entirely finished state of being. As mortals, we organize our worlds into beginnings and endings, starts and finishes. Architecture’s temporality, however, may contain something of both the mortal and immortal within it – a desire for permanence combined with lamentation over its impossibility.

While many approaches to finishing construct two opposed ontological conditions (the finished and the unfinished), this dualistic ploy neglects the complexity of architectural practice, cultural reception, and historiographic shifts in semiotics during the lifetime of a building. More nuanced approaches are examined in this collection of 38 essays and creative works from a diverse group of scholars, architects and artists who conceptualize finishing not simply as a final outcome, but as an extended action, a mood that presumes an end is near, all the while working continuously toward (but never achieving) completion. It is here that the concept of finishing is not a state of being but a state of becoming, as an active thickening of time when the end is thought to be imminent but not yet attained. Finishing, more than a final endpoint, is a void state that is extended through efforts framing its territory, while never quite containing it.

From the material to the procedural and the conceptual, this volume explores the practices of finishing in architecture within three currents: surfaces, projects, and most broadly, architectural times. It will be of interest to students and instructors of architecture and design, architectural historians, and other scholars.

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 Scharouns 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
Paridia: 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
Buildings 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
Editors

Paul Emmons is a registered architect and the Patrick and Nancy Lathrop Professor of Architecture at the Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center of Virginia Tech, where he directs the PhD program in Architecture + Design Research. His research on architecture drawing practices includes the book Drawing Imagining Building.

Marcia Feuerstein is a registered architect and Professor of Architecture Emerita at the Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center of Virginia Tech. Her research investigates links between theory, practice, and performance in architecture. One of her recent publications is Expanding Field of Architecture.

Negar Goljan is a Visiting Assistant Professor at James Madison University School of Art, Design and Art History and a PhD Candidate in Architecture + Design Research at the Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center of Virginia Tech. Her research considers poetics in architecture, specifically atmospheric drawings of Étienne-Louis Boullée.

Associate Editor

Camila Mancilla is an architect and PhD candidate in Architecture + Design Research at the Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center of Virginia Tech studying architecture representation through collage, multi-media, and architectural fragments. Her research focuses on cutting in the work of Gordon Matta-Clark.