UID:
kobvindex_INT0000171
Format:
192 pages :
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illustrations (some colour), plans (some colour) ;
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31 x 24 cm.
ISBN:
9783034600354 (hbk.)
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3034600356 (hbk.)
Content:
MACHINE-GENERATED SUMMARY NOTE: "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. Eight chapters deal with surfaces and layers, joints and junctions, 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 renowned 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."
Note:
MACHINE-GENERATED CONTENTS NOTE: WHY MATERIAL DESIGN? FOREWORD BY ERWIN VIRAY 8 -- THE ALTERNATIVE APPROACH: OBSERVATION, SPECULATION, EXPERIMENTATION / THOMAS SCHRÖPFER 10 -- The Material-Design Connection 10 -- Material Studies in Practice 13 -- New Materials: The Architect's Role 19 -- Quality, Craft, and Culture in Material Design 21 -- Technology, Representation, Communication 23 -- Inherent Expression: A Greater Understanding of Materials' Potential for Expression 25 -- Scale-less Design and Material Processes 30 -- Notes 33 -- DIFFICULT SYNTHESIS / NADER TEHRANI 34 -- Introduction: Language and Surplus 34 -- A Discipline in Search of a Medium 34 -- Beyond Paper: Reclaiming Material Agency 36 -- Inputs, Constraints, and Intents 39 -- Digital Research 40 -- The Acrobatics of the Cover-Up 41 -- Performance and Its Predicaments 43 -- Difficult Synthesis 44 -- Notes 47 -- AGGREGATION / NADER TEHRANI AND JUSTIN FOWLER 48 -- Tectonics 48 -- The Architectural Figure Configured: Part-to-Whole Relations 48 -- Patterning and the Problem of the Corner 51 -- Two- and Three-dimensional Patterns 52 -- Conclusion 61 -- JOINTS AND JUNCTIONS / THOMAS SCHRÖPFER AND ELIZABETH LOVETT 62 -- The Role of Detailing in the Act of Architecture 62 -- Fabric and Figure in Architectural Joinery 65 -- American and Japanese Joinery: Conditions of Complexity 68 -- Constraints of Description: Utzon and Gehry 69 -- Notes 75 -- WEAVING: THE TECTONICS OF TEXTILES / TOSHIKO MORI 76 -- The Process of Weaving 76 -- A New Conception of Surface 79 -- Innovations and Applications in Engineered Textiles 80 -- Technology Transfer: Boat Hulls to Architecture 83 -- Notes 87 -- MODULATION: TRANSFORMATION BY SHAPING AND TEXTURING / THOMAS SCHRÖPFER 88 -- Modulating Modulation 88 -- Modulating the Shaped 94 -- Modulating the Shapeless 96 -- From Technique to Architecture 102 -- Notes 105 -- CAPTURING THE EPHEMERAL / JAMES CARPENTER 106 -- Volumetric Light 106 -- Latency 108 -- Expanding the Boundary Between Inside and Outside 111 -- Transparency, Reflection, and Refraction 112 -- Responsive Planes 112 -- Reconnecting to Natural Events 117 -- RESPONSIVE MATERIALS / SHEILA KENNEDY 118 -- New Materials, New Models of Practice 118 -- Hybrid Materials 118 -- Design in the Fourth Dimension 118 -- The Power of the Many 120 -- Responsive Systems: Potentials for New Environmental Practices 120 -- Pushing the Envelope 121 -- Interactive Environmental Media: Emerging Design Strategies 121 -- Notes 131 -- MATERIALIZATIONS OF NANOTECHNOLOGY IN ARCHITECTURE / PETER YEADON 132 -- Four Approaches to Nanotechnology in Design Innovation 132 -- By Mimesis 132 -- By Application 136 -- By Experimentation 139 -- By Speculation 142 -- Notes 147 -- ENCODING: DIGITAL & ANALOGUE TAXONAVIGATION / LIAT MARGOLIS 148 -- Newness 148 -- Genre: Unclassifiable 154 -- Material Collections 155 -- Analogue 158 -- Digital 160 -- 1 : 1 161 -- Notes 163 -- THE FUTURE OF MATERIAL DESIGN / THOMAS SCHRÖPFER 164 -- Material Technologies 164 -- Design Methods 171 -- The Problem-Solving Approach: Pitfalls and Challenges 181 -- Notes 185 -- APPENDIX -- On the Author and the Contributors 186 -- Index of Names 188 -- Subject Index 190 -- Illustration Credits 192.
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LANGUAGE NOTE: also available in a German language edition: Material Design : Materialität in der Architektur. Basel : Birkhäuser, 2010. ISBN: 9783034600347.
Language:
English
Keywords:
Handbooks and manuals
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Case studies
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Edited volumes
