This chapter discusses the ability to shape a building envelope in reference to incident solar radiation.
Frank Gehry, the brilliant, and often ebullient, California architect had shaped a building that thrilled people from around the world, among them critics, politicians, economists and fellow artists.
The Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain on Paris's Boulevard Raspail, opened in 1994, is a good example of how Nouvel tried hard to shape a large building that, in certain tricks and plays of light, seems barely there at all.
For example, the shape of a building can influence the esthetic form and qualities of places, and can contribute to creating a certain sense of place.
The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, in Leipzig, is a large, mostly glass building shaped a bit like a banana.
Digital Project works by modeling, in three dimensions, every odd shape an architect envisions and then letting engineers and architects reconcile the shape with a building's site, ductwork and other features.
This is firstly a reference to the credentials of Masdar City itself, now taking shape from a building site.
In another photo, I recognized the sail shape of a building under construction: the Burj Al Arab hotel, in Dubai.
"If you adjust the shape of a building late in the game, you would have a lot of drawing to do," says Mr Burger.
His first fantasy coffin, carved in 1978, was in the shape of a building and designed for a real-estate developer.
