Oda Palmke: Facades
Oda Palmke: Facades
$19.95
PALMKE. Wenders,Wim
Cl. Jovis. 2014
Book ID: 96150
A faade defines a building's exterior character; it is the primary expression of its style, the overture that ostensibly sets the tone for the rest of the building. In this volume, the German architect Oda PŠlmke demonstrates that the most expressive sides of houses are not always those that were originally designed as faades. PŠlmke has established herself as a connoisseur of the overlooked and the ordinary in architecture, as her previous volume, the delightful Quite Good Houses, demonstrates. Here, she asks the viewer to imagine seemingly unspectacular side walls and temporary modifications as the faces of buildings, locating a wealth of possibilities in the marginal and the incomplete. Faades includes a foreword by filmmaker Wim Wenders, who brings a cinematic perspective ideally suited to the topic (faades often constituting the entirety of a building's structure in movies).
144 pp.
