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164 STRUCTURE AS ARCHITECTURE▲ 7.69The fan detail possesses the aesthetic qualities of a piece of jewellery.Detailing that expresses structural actions can either express bendingor other stress, or articulate structural connectivity like clamping orclasping. Some sources of detailing inspiration lie completely outsidethe building and its programme.The second and final section of the chapter illustrates the huge diversityof the aesthetic qualities of structural detailing. Each detail suggests its ownarchitectural reading and influences its surrounding architecture. Detailingqualities are categorized into the following four broad groupings –refined to utilitarian, simple to complex, lightness to heaviness, and plainto decorative.The multiplicity of examples, the sheer diversity of expressive andresponsive details, and the different aesthetic qualities of details indicatethe enormous potential for exposed structural detailing to enhance therealization of architectural concepts.REFERENCES AND NOTES1 Ogg, A. (1987). Architecture in Steel: The Australian Context. The RoyalAustralian Institute of Architects, p. 44.2 Louis Khan, quoted in Frampton, K. (1995). Studies in Tectonic Culture: ThePoetics of Construction in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Architecture.Massachusetts Institute of Technology, p. 227.3 Jones, F. (1999). ‘Outside the Pale’: The Architecture of Fay Jones. Department ofArkansas Heritage, pp. 48 and 54.4 Balmond, C. (2002). informal. Prestel, p. 88.5 Murphy, J. (1987). A Grand Gateway. Progessive Architecture, Nov.,pp. 95–104.