Surface consciousness / Guest edited by Mark Taylor and Helen Castle

Architectural Design is published bimonthly by John Wiley.
Present volume of the Architectural Design and contains volume 73 and Issue number 02 (Mar-Apr 2003)

Introduction /Mark Taylor-- Between Surface and Substance /Mark Burry-- Philibert de La Orme Pavilion: Towards an Associative /Bernard Cache-- Amorphous Structures /Horst Kiechle-- Surface--Talk /Mark Taylor-- Volcanic Matter: The Architecture of Whakaari/White Island /Sarah Treadwell-- Masked Matter and Other Diagrams /Hans Frei-- From Microcosm to Macrocosm: The Surface of Fuller and Sadaoa s US Pavillion at Montreal Expo a 67 /Timothy M. Rohan-- In Search of the Plasma Membrane /Michael Trudgeon-- Conveying 3--D Shape and Depth with Textured and Transparent Surfaces/Victoria Interrante-- Sticks and Stones: Skin and Bones /Peter Wood-- Ornamental Operations /Brent Allpress-- Seduction, Subversion and Predation: Surface Characteristics /Michael J. Ostwald-- Sewing Surface: Ground Matters Beneath the Eiffel Towel /Julieanna Preston-- Surface: Architecturea s Expanded Field /Karen Burns-- Contributor Biographies. Interior Eye: Deluxe Apartments in the Sky /Craig Kellogg-- Practice Profile: Kathryn Findlay of Ushida Findlay /Neil Spiller-- Building Profile: Federation Square, Melbourne /Jeremy Melvin-- Engineering Exegesis: Blurring the Lines: Mediating Between Analogue and Digital Skill Sets /Mark Bury-- Highlights from Wiley Academy /Jane Peyton-- Congratulatios to Jayne Merkel /Helen Castle-- Invisibly Informal /Lucy Bullivant-- Site Lines: Building Exploratory /Hannah Ford

"Surface" is the current buzz-word in contemporary architecture and is the main focus of some of today's most cutting-edge and exciting architectural projects. This new issue of Architectural Design intends to bring its readers to a new surface consciousness. This new edition of the cutting-edge Architectural Design brings together a number of emergent works that reflect the idea that surface is more than just a crust or merely a structure onto which architectural work is built. It expresses the notion that surface is becoming increasingly important as it poses new ways of seeing the world, physically and theoretically.