The thickness of paint

A photograph by Robert Polidori, of a room within the city of Petra, shows a pristine cubic volume hewn out of the rock. The nature of the stone reveals different textural and figural qualities of the material when it becomes a floor, a wall or a ceiling. There is no need to ‘put’ the building toget...

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Published inArq (London, England) Vol. 13; no. 3-4; pp. 332 - 334
Main Author Woolf, Jonathan
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.12.2009
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Polidori, Robert
Rocks
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Summary:A photograph by Robert Polidori, of a room within the city of Petra, shows a pristine cubic volume hewn out of the rock. The nature of the stone reveals different textural and figural qualities of the material when it becomes a floor, a wall or a ceiling. There is no need to ‘put’ the building together, to assemble it, because it is already exists. This, then, is the fantasy of the architect, to sculpt from a single substance that is both structure and surface, with the only remaining questions pertaining to shape and smoothness.
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ISSN:1359-1355
1474-0516
DOI:10.1017/S1359135510000205