Thomas Schropfer ; with a foreword by Erwin Viray ; and contributions by James Carpenter ... [et al.]
Title Proper
Material design :informing architecture by materiality
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
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Basel
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Birkhauser
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
c2011
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192 p. : ill. (some col.), plans.
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مرجع به حساب نمي آيد
CONTENTS NOTE
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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.