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106th ACSA Annual Meeting Proceedings, The Ethical Imperative

The Façade as an Architectural Interior

Annual Meeting Proceedings

Author(s): Patrizio Martinelli

Façade is the architectural place where private and public meet and the building’s “face�. The designer can design the façade to express the inside, the reaction to the outside, or as an independent mask hiding the interiors. But façade can be not only a mere skin, but a device with depth, density, thickness. The portals and prothyrums in medieval religious buildings are devices that anticipates the rituals and spaces of the interiors.

Volume Editors
Amir Ameri & Rebecca O'Neal Dagg

ISBN
978-1-944214-14-2