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Material Design: Informing Architecture by Materiality

Contribuţii de James Carpenter Autor Thomas Schröpfer Contribuţii de Sheila Kennedy, Liat Margolis, Toshiko Mori, Nader Tehrani, Peter Yeadon
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 25 oct 2010
The approach of "Informing Architecture by Materiality" opens the way to an innovative use of materials in the design professions. Taking material qualities and properties such as texture, elasticity, transparency and fluidity as a point of departure, the concept described and employed here transcends the conventional definitions of building materials. Instead, the focus is on a multitude of material operations, like folding and bending, carving and cutting, weaving and knitting, mirroring and screening.
The featured design strategies and methods address established and "new" materials alike. They are applied both to the scale of the detail and the entire building. The examples comprise prototype structures as well as large building projects.
Nine chapters deal with surfaces and layers, joints and juctions, weaving and texturing, nanoscale transformations, responsiveness, the integration of ephemeral factors like wind and light as well as material collections providing professional resources. Written by reknowned experts in this field, the book features many examples from international contemporary architecture.
The introductory part provides the conceptual background, while a final chapter describes consequences for pressing issues of today, like sustainability or life cycle assessment.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783034600354
ISBN-10: 3034600356
Pagini: 192
Ilustrații: Approx. 215 p. 300 illus., 250 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 230 x 300 x 21 mm
Greutate: 1.2 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2010
Editura: Birkhäuser Basel
Colecția Birkhäuser
Locul publicării:Basel, Switzerland

Cuprins

Table of Contents (with working titles of chapters)
Part One (20-30 pages)
Material Design
Thomas Schröpfer
Part Two (120 pages)
Plane
Toshiko Mori
Aggregation/Layering
Nader Tehrani
Joints and Junctions of Materials
Nader Tehrani
Weaving of Materials
Toshiko Mori
Transformation by Texturing
Thomas Schröpfer
Molecular Transformation: Nanoscale Behaviour of Materials
Peter Yeadon
Capturing the Ephemeral
James Carpenter
Transformation by Responsiveness
Sheila Kennedy
Encoding/Processing Information
Liat Margolis
Part Three (30-40 pages)
The Future of Materials in Design
Thomas Schröpfer.

Notă biografică

Thomas Schröpfer is Associate Professor at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. James Carpenter is principal of James Carpenter Design Associates in New York. Sheila Kennedy is principal of Kennedy & Violich Architecture in Boston. Toshiko Mori is principal of Toshiko Mori Architects in New York and teaches at the Hardvard University Graduate School of Design. Liat Margolis is a landscape architect and teaches at the John Daniels Architecture School of the University of Toronto. Nader Tehrani is principal of Office dA in Boston and teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Peter Yeadon is principal of Decker Yeadon in New York and teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design. Erwin Viray is an architect and teaches at the National University of Singapore.

Caracteristici

An innovative design approach to materials: a major subject in architecture today
With contributions by James Carpenter, Sheila Kennedy, Liat Margolis, Toshiko Mori, Nader Tehrani, Peter Yeadon, and a foreword by Erwin Viray