Architectural Skins + Big Words

Have you ever noticed that in a profession primarily devoted to drawing and building stuff, we use an unnecessarily large amount of big words? I blame our references to dead french philosophers... there was always going to be something lost (or gained, as it were) in translation.

I digress a little.

After being suitably overawed by the Martha und Daneil Gantenbein (see previous posts) and in consultation with Daniel, I've decided to focus my research on architectural skin + theory. The leap in logic is pretty obvious, right? Well, in hindsight it is, so damn you.

My initial research has lead me, unsurprisingly, to the masters of skin; Herzog & De Meuron. I'm sure you've seen the Allianz Arena:

Glows a different colour at night depending on the football (soccer) team that plays there. Red for Bayern Munich, blue for 1860 Munich, white for the German national team. (picture and info courtesy of Wikipedia. Ah... why does everybody hate you Wikipedia?)

purrrty. I've also stumbled onto what is known as the computational sublime (bweh?!), which is essentially exploration using computers with references to theoretical philosophies. I will be directing a majority of my research towards this area with the intention of trying out different skins in different contexts/scales. Should be interesting.