In Detail: Building skins -- concepts, layers, materials. (Thin Skin).(Brief Article)(Review)

Edited by Christian Schittich. Basel: Birkhauser. 2001. [euro]58

Although beautifully presented, this book falls somewhat between a text-book on light-weight cladding and a good architectural magazine with some recent fine examples of building skins. Predictably these include Moneo at San Sebastian, Eden Centre, Delft Library and others. Zumthor at Bregenz is on the front cover but not in the case studies.

This magazine format has the disadvantage that the buildings are described as more than their cladding with the result that the technical information regar