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Transmaterial 3
"Provides a broad synopsis of the state of technological advances in materials today, with a special emphasis on new developments in the field of biopolymers and various agriculturally derived products; biomimetic products, systems, and processes that seek to emulate natural examples, including low-embodied-energy and biochemically manufactured products; "grown" materials; nanoscale marvels; renewable energy technologies; "second-life" materials derived from repurposed waste; and responsive, interactive, and transformational digital interfaces that harness pervasive communication networks and are powered by low-energy illumination sources."--P. [4] of cover.
Matter: Material Processes in Architectural Production
Combining essays from both practice and academia, this book includes some of the most significant projects and thoughts on materiality from the last decade. Beautifully illustrated with a great deal of technical information throughout, it is not a coffee-table book with no explanation of how, nor a theory book without the description of the projects.
Material Strategies in Digital Fabrication
In this second edition of Material Strategies in Digital Fabrication are new case studies, improved wayfinding, the inclusion of composites and plastics, and references to similar strategies between different projects. In 400 step-by-step diagrams dissecting 39 case studies in 10 countries on 3 continents, the book shows you how material performance drives the digital fabrication process and determines technique. The book identifies the important characteristics of each material, including connection types, relative costs, deformation, color, texture, finish, dimensional properties, durability, and weathering and waterproofing to link design outcomes to form. The book is divided into five ma...
Hypernatural
Despite the ever-growing sophistication of synthetic and digital tools, it's the natural world that captures the imaginations of today's vanguard designers. By looking to nature as a teacher rather than simply as a source for raw materials, pioneers in the emerging biomimicry movement are developing design methods and materials to create intelligent buildings that emulate life itself. In Hypernatural architecture and material experts Blaine Brownell and Marc Swackhamer present an international collection of forty-two case studies that illustrate astonishing new applications possible in this rapidly growing field, from Echoviren, a botanical pavilion that was designed to wilt into its surrounding redwood forest in Northern California, to the MIT Media Lab's Silk Pavilion, constructed by the threads of silkworms as they passed over scaffolding. Together, these projects show that by looking to nature, design can be a tool that makes our built environment more efficient, sustainable, and, most of all, livable.
Lineament: Material, Representation and the Physical Figure in Architectural Production
This comprehensive catalogue of contemporary work examines the renewed investment in the relationship between representation, materiality, and architecture. It assembles a range of diverse voices across various institutions, practices, generations, and geographies, through specific case studies that collectively present a broader theoretical intention.
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306090 05
306090 05: Teaching + Building focuses on emerging trends in design-build curricula through the work of young educators throughout the world, with essays on the effects of practice on education and vice versa. It features the built work of design instructors alongside the studio projects of their students, among other revealing juxtapositions. Students and professors profiled include Yvan-pier Cazabon, Margot Krasojevic, Aleksandr Mergold, emerymcclure Architects, Jose Salinas, SYSTEMarchitects, M1, and others.
Ephemeral Structures in the City of Athens: Judgement
This publication in four volumes has been made in the context of the International Architecture Competition "Ephemeral Structures in the city of Athens", organised by the Cultural Olympiad 2001-2004, under the auspices of the UIA (International Union of Architects) and supported by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture. The competition also became known as the D.O.E.S. (Design of Ephemeral Structures) competition, for the use of the word "does" underscores and reverberates the wish to make things happen. The four volumes follow the various stages of the competition and marks the events organised in its context : book I : annunciation - a re-edition of the competition programme; book II : hermeneutics - texts perpared by the members of the competition's technical committee after their first encounter with the 470 competition entries; book III : revelation - the catalogue of the exhibition, the identity of all participants and projects revealed; book IV : judgement - the adjudication process, texts by jurors and awards.
