May 2022: Facades special section

The Focus section of our May 2022 issue celebrates ten years of Facades+, our conference series that empowers the facade design community. To mark this special occasion, this extended section captures where facades have been in the past decade and where they’re going in the future. The building envelope is one of the sites of serious innovation within architecture today. Check out this special section to be informed about the latest advances.

Also included:

· Trends: texture stone, brick expressions, glass inventions, prismatic forms, screened elevations, and terra-cotta cladding

· Facade futures, with thoughts from Brandon Andow of EYP, Bill Kreysler of Kreysler & Associates, and Thomas Robinson of LEVER

· Products: glass & glazing systems; composites; ceramics; paints, coatings, & finishes; air & weather barriers

· Case Studies: REX’s Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center, OMA’s Taipei Performing Arts Center, and MVRDV’s Valley

· Feature: The Credit Human building in San Antonio, by Don B. McDonald Architect with Kirksey Architecture

· A review of Alejandro Zaera-Polo’s The Ecologies of the Building Envelope

· Case Studies in Brief