New tent architecture / Philip Drew.

Main entry:

Drew, Philip, 1943-

Title & Author:

New tent architecture / Philip Drew.

Publication:

New York : Thames & Hudson, 2008.

Description:

208 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-203).
[Table of Contents] -- Introduction -- Tents As Architecture -- New Shapes, New Materials -- Gravity's Line -- Small Peaks -- Large Waves -- Rings and Convertibles -- Atrium Covers, Fabric Walls -- New Interpretations -- Bibliography and Resources -- Glossary -- Directory of Architects.

Summary:

"Tents have been prized for centuries by nomadic cultures for their lightness, mobility, small footprint and structural elegance. In recent years, interest in tensile structures has grown steadily due to increasing ecological concerns and the new formal possibilities offered by cutting-edge materials and technologies. New tents offer innovative and significant solutions to age-old problems. And with the demand on architects to touch the earth lightly, together with a cross-disciplinary interest in techno-textiles, membrane structures are assuming new prominence and pleasing forms. New Tent Architecture is the first major publication to look at the exciting possibilities of contemporary tensile building and the most interesting membrane structures created in recent years. This wide-ranging international survey begins with a substantial architectural and cultural history of the tent, considering its origins, meaning and ecological elegance. The core of the book features thirty recent projects, grouped by theme (atrium covers and fabric walls, ring roofs and convertibles, small peaks, large waves) and presented extensively through accessible text descriptions, photographs and line drawings. At the forefront of current architectural practice and offering countless lessons for an increasingly environmentally aware profession, New Tent Architecture will be of widespread appeal and use to architecture and design professionals, engineers and students worldwide. With 250 illustrations in color and black and white." -- Dust Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9780500342435 (hbk.)
0500342431 (hbk.)

Subject:

Tensile architecture.
Tensile architecture Designs and plans.
Architecture, Modern 21st century.
Structures tendues.
Structures tendues Dessins et plans.
Architecture 21e siècle.
tensile structures.
Architecture, Modern
Architektur
Zelt
Zeltdach

Form/genre:

Bildband.
architectural drawings (visual works)
Architectural drawings
Designs and plans.
Dessins d'architecture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 258053
Call No.: BIB 188644
Status: Available

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