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- W2586504517 abstract "Norberto Lopez Amado and Carlos Carcas, directors How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster? Art Commissioners in association with Aiete Ariane Films, First Run Features, New York, 2010, DVD, 80 min., $20.96, http://firstrunfeatures.com/In the years surrounding the 1967 establishment of the Foster Associates office (now Foster + Partners) in London by Norman Foster with his late wife and partner, Wendy Foster, the discourse on systems in architecture gained prominence both in the United States, where Foster had been a graduate student at Yale, and in Europe.1 Especially prominent in Britain was the “systems-built” model, emphasizing industrialized production, prefabricated elements, and speed of the construction process. Figures such as Foster, Richard Rogers, and Nicholas Grimshaw advocated increased performance, an ideal that was intimately linked to this notion of systematized production, and could be understood in terms of energy efficiency. Lightweight, modular components would lead to ease of assembly and reduced material expenditure. Advanced environmental controls systems would enhance comfort while minimizing energy consumption.The 2010 documentary on Norman Foster’s life and work, How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster? , draws its title from Buckminster Fuller’s favorite question to architects, purportedly posed to Foster during a visit to the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, completed in 1978. Implicit in the inquiry was Fuller’s call for more efficient use of material resources as part of a larger energy conservation strategy, and Foster claims he spent the next week coming up with the answer: 5,328 tons. This exercise clearly influenced Foster’s thinking, and the documentary includes footage of a 1980 client presentation in which he compares a mockup of a lightweight polycarbonate sandwich panel only a few inches thick to a 3-foot-thick brick wall, a 9-inch concrete wall with an air cavity, and a multilayered brick wall, concluding that the minimal sandwich panel performs equally as well as the other wall types. Foster asserts in the film: “Technology is the art of making things and high technology is performance.”Regrettably, the documentary largely …" @default.
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- W2586504517 title "Review: How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster? by Norberto Lopez Amado and Carlos Carcas, directors" @default.
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