TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schröpfer,Thomas
AU  - Carpenter,James
TI  - Material design: informing architecture by materiality 
SN  - 3034600356
U1  - 720.28 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Basel
PB  - Birkhäuser
KW  - Arquitectura moderna
KW  - Siglo XX
KW  - Siglo XXI
KW  - Arquitectura
KW  - Diseños y planos
KW  - Materiales de construcción
N1  - Incluye bibliografía; 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; 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 --^
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