Building Constitute Toward The Surface

Building skin, as a means of characteristic expression for modern architecture, together with "building structure " has become a hot topic in the field of architecture at home and abroad in recent years. This essay begins from the broad time background; goes directly to the big architectural event, and then points put the thesis-building skins. On the basis of full analysis and proof of the definition of building skins, a completely new understanding of building skins is obtained. It considers: building skins is a special form in a special context rather than a broad concept Modernism master Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe's building ideas and analysis of architect works are used as starting point of this essay. It focus on Minimalism. Though deep exploration and wide comparison of the concrete building examples in these three period, from various aspects like the designing methodology of architecture, humanistic ideology, art development, change of aesthetic sense, building technical environment provided by hi-tech buildings. Therefore, the change of building skins results from the development of both culture and technology. It is a response to the development of culture and technology.