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Posted by Michael Bulatovich on February 9, 2007, 8:35 am
> On 09 Feb 2007, Michael Bulatovich wrote
>
>>
>>>> On 09 Feb 2007, Martin wrote
>>>>
>>>>> Hi!
>>>>> Could somebody help me with an explanation what the term
>>>>> "exterior building" meeas. I've tried UTFG without success.
>>>>
>>>> Without some context of the usage, I'd say it's impossible to
>>>> say. (I'm in the architecture/urbanism field, and I can think
>>>> of a number of possible uses, but they'd all be wild-assed
>>>> guesses at this point.)
>>>>
>>>> How is the term being used in the original?
>>>>
>>> I apologize for a mistake in my original posting: it should
>>> have been "extrovert building" instead of "exterior building".
>>> :-( Context: By any measure the Parthenon is the most sublime
>>> of all extrovert buildings ever built.
>>
>> The term does not have firm meaning in an architectural context.
>> It is being used in a figurative sense, or is the product of
>> some previous, and less than successful, translation from
>> another language into English.
>
> I don't think it's the latter -- if you google on the phrase, it
> seems to be cropping up in current descriptions and other puff
> pieces in the journals.
It was a joke, Harvey.
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