Main entry:

Schröpfer, Thomas.

Title & Author:

Material design : informing architecture by materiality / Thomas Schropfer ; with a foreword by Erwin Viray ; and contributions by James Carpenter [and others].

Publication:

Description:

192 pages : illustrations (some color), plans (some color) ; 31 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Why material design?: Foreword / Erwin Viray -- The alternative approach: observation, speculation, experimentation / Thomas Schröpfer : 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 from expression ; Scale-less design and material processes -- Difficult synthesis / Nader Tehrani : 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 predicament ; Difficult synthesis -- Aggregation / Nader Tehrani and Justin Fowler : Tectonics ; The architectural figure configured: part-to-whole relations ; Patterning and the problem of the corner ; Two- and three-dimensional patterns -- Joints and junctions : Thomas Schröpfer and Elizabeth Lovett : 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 -- Weaving: the tectonics of textiles / Toshiko Mori : The process of weaving ; A new Conception of surface ; Innovations and applications in engineered textiles ; Technology transfer: boat hulls to architecture -- Modulation: transformation by shaping and texturing / Thomas Schröpter : Modulating modulation ; Modulating the shaped ; Modulating the shapeless ; From technique to architecture -- Capturing the ephemeral / James Carpenter : Volumetric light ; Latency ; Expanding the boundary between inside and outside ; Transparency, reflection, and refraction ; Responsive planes ; Reconnecting to natural events -- Responsive materials : Sheila Kennedy : New materials, new models of practice ; Hybrid materials ; 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 -- Materializations of nanotechnology in architecture / Peter Yeadon : Four approaches to nanotechnology in design innovation ; By memesis ; By application ; By experimentation ; By speculation -- Encoding: digital & analogue taxonavigation / Liat Margolis : Newness ; Genre: unclassifiable ; Material collections ; Analogue ; Digital ; 1 : 1 -- The future of material design / Thomas Schröpfer : Material technologies ; Design methods ; The problem-solving approach: pitfalls and challenges.

Summary:

The approach of this book 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.

Resources:
E-book

ISBN:

9783034600354 (hbk.)
3034600356 (hbk.)

Subject:

Building materials.
Architecture Designs and plans.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture, Modern 21st century.
Construction Materials
Construction Matériaux.
Architecture Dessins et plans.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture 21e siècle.
building materials.
Architecture.
Architecture, Modern.

Form/genre:

Architectural drawings.

Added entries:

Carpenter, James, 1949-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 271013
Call No.: BIB 203938
Status: Available