Thomas Schropfer ; with a foreword by Erwin Viray ; and contributions by James Carpenter ... [et al.]
Material design :informing architecture by materiality
Basel
Birkhauser
c2011
192 p. : ill. (some col.), plans.
مرجع به حساب نمي آيد
Why material design? -- The alternative approach: observation, speculation, experimentation -- Difficult synthesis -- Aggregation -- Joints and Junctions -- Weaving: the tectonics of textiles -- Modulation: transformation by shaping and texturing -- Capturing the ephemeral -- Responsive materials -- Materializations of nanotechnology in architecture -- Encoding: digital & analogue taxonavigation -- The future of material design.