Finishing in Architecture Polishing, Completing, Ending

1. Introduction: in lieu of an afterword

Paul Emmons and Cihan Yusufoglu

2. Works at work, today and tomorrow

David Leatherbarrow

INTERLUDE: CREATIVE WORKS 1

3. Prelude to the interludes: creative works

Camila Mancilla

4. Dust-cot: a cast of interior affinities

Jonathan Foote and Carolina Dayer

5. Knitting tensile  membranes for ornament, tactility, and visual effects

Virginia Ellyn Melnyk

6. Sharp shadows: cutting an architectural treatise

Camila Mancilla

SECTION I
SURFACES: FINISHING AS POLISHING

7. Introduction

Negar Goljan

8. Polishing: finishing that is never finished

Daniel Willis

9. Sine fine: on polishing and finishing ancient Roman domestic architecture

Marden Fitzpatrick Nichols

10. Ruskin and emotive architectural finishes

Negar Goljan

11. "Finishing" the "unfinished": the history of cladded surfaces of Hans Scharoun’s Berlin Philharmonic Concert Hall

Liyang Ding

12. The finishing of surfaces in the work of Carlo Scarpa

Alba Di Lieto and Marco Borsotti

13. On the inadequacy of accounting for architectural finish

Adam Sharr

14. Brutalism: from modern utopia to the modernity of the real

Diogo Modini Pereira

INTERLUDE: CREATIVE WORKS 2

15. Pulp fiction: in conversation with Marco Frascari on the craft of architectural drawing

Mohammad Moezzi

16. Pursuit of design extremes

Benjamin Vanmuysen

17. The expanding world of LEAPs

Alessandro Ayuso

SECTION II
PROJECTS: FINISHING AS COMPLETING

18. Introduction

Paul Emmons

19. Abandoned incomplete/complete abandonment: theme and variations

Claudio Sgarbi and Talia Trainin

20. Building as new beginning: the absolute negativity of the Maison Dom-ino

Alexander Bala

21. Undoing architecture: Gestaltung as light-space-time interpenetrations

Jodi La Coe

22. Architect/client Philip Johnson: between Seagram and the house at New Canaan

Berrin Terim

23. Wolf House: a thrice-finished prefab midcentury home

Ezgi İşbilen

24. Finishing and the viridic: reflections on the preservation of historic landscapes

Paul Kelsch

25. (Un)finished architectures and their adaptations

Aki Ishida

26. Completing in time: building on site to find a different ending

Prue Chiles

INTERLUDE: CREATIVE WORKS 3

27. A parōidia: the belly of an old drawing

Bahar Avanoğlu

28. Backward/forward: "non-finito"

Linda Heinrich

29. Constructing shadows in Marfa

Patrick Doan

SECTION III
TIMES: FINISHING AS ENDING

30. Introduction

Marcia Feuerstein

31. "Hamiltonian" Finishing: The Global-Local Architecture of Projective Geometry

Donald Kunze

32. Zen: the finishing of architecture

Tianming Zhao

33. Surrealist alchemy and the transubstantiation of reuse

Matthew Mindrup

34. Through the lens of a building’s afterlife: institutionalizing knowledge of architectural heritage as performative practice

Katarina Andjelkovic

35. How to unfinish gracefully: an encomium of blank walls, stairs-to-nowhere, and-

Luc Phinney

36. Always unfinished: the German Pavilion in Barcelona

Xavier Costa

37. Open-ended final scenes for the architectural fascist legacy in Bozen-Bolzano

Roberto Gigliotti, Waltraud Kofler Engl, and Gaia Piccarolo

38. Liminal temporality and the architecture of "the Backrooms"

Andrew Gipe-Lazarou

POSTLUDE

39. Towers of Babel by Marco Frascari

Paul Emmons

Biography

Editors

Paul Emmons is a registered architect and the Patrick and Nancy Lathrop Professor of Architecture at the Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center of Virginia Tech, where he directs the PhD program in Architecture + Design Research. His research on architecture drawing practices includes the book Drawing Imagining Building.

Marcia Feuerstein is a registered architect and Professor of Architecture Emerita at the Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center of Virginia Tech. Her research investigates links between theory, practice, and performance in architecture. One of her recent publications is Expanding Field of Architecture.

Negar Goljan is a Visiting Assistant Professor at James Madison University School of Art, Design and Art History and a PhD Candidate in Architecture + Design Research at the Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center of Virginia Tech. Her research considers poetics in architecture, specifically atmospheric drawings of Étienne-Louis Boullée.

Associate Editor

Camila Mancilla is an architect and PhD candidate in Architecture + Design Research at the Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center of Virginia Tech studying architecture representation through collage, multi-media, and architectural fragments. Her research focuses on cutting in the work of Gordon Matta-Clark.