Most writings that explore the subject of facades abound in descriptions of technical details and materials, with the aim of revealing a hitherto unsuspected appearance in a building and often seeking to increase its stature through a claim to innovation. In some cases, one can read of allegedly »intelligent« facades, by which is meant that they can generate energy or that they possess other striking technological features such as areas that open and close automatically in response to weather conditions.
In fact, there are no such things as intelligent facades. If they did exist, one would be speaking of artificial intelligence, and they would stand at the lower end of the scale. A quality of this kind would, at best, be attributable to the engineers and architects who had developed such facades. (Arno Lederer)
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