the tell-the-tale detail - marco frascari

VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON Te Whare Wananga o te Upoko o te Ika a Maui

School of Architecture

Te Kura Waihanga

ITDN 412 INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE P A R T A : S T A G E 0 3 – D E T A I L E D D E S I G N D O C U M E N T A T I O N , J O I N E R Y , P A L E T T E , F U R N I S H I N G S HANDOUT 9

The Tell-the-Tale Detail This Handout challenges the interior architectural detail in terms of tectonics and its capacity for narrative expression. Read the handout carefully. The information it contains will form the critical basis for a successful and realisable design of your hotel interiors.

“Details are much more than subordinate elements; they can be regarded as the minimal units of signification in the architectural production of meanings. These units have been singled out in spatial cells or in elements of composition, in modules or in measures, in the alternating of void and solid, or in the relationship between inside and outside.”

Author Title Call No. Frascari, Marco [Behrens, Paula & Fisher, Anthony (ed)]

VIA 7: the Building of Architecture. “The Tell-the-Tale Detail”, Cambridge, Mass: the MIT Press, 1984, pp. 23-37

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