EDITORIAL

摘要

The architectural detail is up for grabs. Never has there been a moment when it has been riper for reinvention. What is to be the place of something so dependent on its physical form in a digital and virtual world? The detail was perhaps one of 20th-century architecture's greatest preoccupations. Modernism substituted ornament and classical elements with highly finessed abstract detailing. Publications fetishised the architectural detail, reproducing the drawings of seminal buildings and their parts: piloti, components, modules, joints and the most discreet of trims. It is difficult to think that it was only a couple of decades ago that architects were obsessing over the High-Tech excesses of the detail-highly visible metallic cabling, pipework, cladding and glazing.