UID:
kobvindex_INTEBC1020551
Format:
1 online resource (192 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9783034611664
Note:
Intro -- Why Material Design? Foreword by Erwin Viray -- The Alternative Approach: Observation, Speculation, Experimentation -- The Material-Design Connection -- Material Studies in Practice -- New Materials: The Architect's Role -- Quality, Craft, and Culture in Material Design -- Technology, Representation, Communication -- Inherent Expression: A Greater Understanding of Materials' Potential for Expression -- Scale-less Design and Material Processes -- Notes -- Difficult Synthesis -- Introduction: Language and Surplus -- A Discipline in Search of a Medium -- Beyond Paper: Reclaiming Material Agency -- Inputs, Constraints, and Intents -- Digital Research -- The Acrobatics of the Cover-Up -- Performance and Its Predicaments -- Difficult Synthesis -- Notes -- Aggregation -- Tectonics -- The Architectural Figure Configured: Part-to-Whole Relations -- Patterning and the Problem of the Corner -- Two- and Three-dimensional Patterns -- Conclusion -- Joints and Junctions -- The Role of Detailing in the Act of Architecture -- Fabric and Figure in Architectural Joinery -- American and Japanese Joinery: Conditions of Complexity -- Constraints of Description: Utzon and Gehry -- Notes -- Weaving: The Tectonics of Textiles -- The Process of Weaving -- A New Conception of Surface -- Innovations and Applications in Engineered Textiles -- Technology Transfer: Boat Hulls to Architecture -- Notes -- Modulation: Transformation by Shaping and Texturing -- Modulating Modulation -- Modulating the Shaped -- Modulating the Shapeless -- From Technique to Architecture -- Notes -- Capturing the Ephemeral -- Volumetric Light -- Latency -- Expanding the Boundary Between Inside and Outside -- Transparency, Reflection, and Refraction -- Responsive Planes -- Reconnecting to Natural Events -- Responsive Materials -- New Materials, New Models of Practice -- Hybrid Materials
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Design in the Fourth Dimension -- The Power of the Many -- Responsive Systems: Potentials for New Environmental Practices -- Pushing the Envelope -- Interactive Environmental Media: Emerging Design Strategies -- Notes -- Materializations of Nanotechnology in Architecture -- Four Approaches to Nanotechnology in Design Innovation -- By Mimesis -- By Application -- By Experimentation -- By Speculation -- Notes -- Encoding: Digital andamp -- Analogue Taxonavigation -- Newness -- Genre: Unclassifiable -- Material Collections -- Analogue -- Digital -- 1 : 1 -- Notes -- The Future of Material Design -- Material Technologies -- Design Methods -- The Problem-Solving Approach: Pitfalls and Challenges -- Notes -- Appendix -- On the Author and the Contributors -- Index of Names -- Subject Index -- Illustration Credits
Additional Edition:
Print version Schröpfer, Thomas Material Design Basel/Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH,c2010 ISBN 9783034600354
Language:
English
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