Material design
Subtitle: informing architecture by materiality
By: Thomas Schropfer ; with a foreword by Erwin Viray ; and contributions by James Carpenter ... [et al.].
Contributors: Carpenter, James, 1949-
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Basel
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9783034600354
Subjects: Building materials; Designs and plans; Architecture; Modern Architecture
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Why material design?; title: The alternative approach: observation, speculation, experimentation; title: Difficult synthesis; title: Aggregation; title: Joints and unctions; title: Weaving: the tectonics of textiles; title: Modulation: transformation by shaping and texturing; title: Capturing the ephemeral; title: Responsive materials; title: Materializations of nanotechnology in architecture; title: Encoding: digital & analogue taxonavigation; title: The future of material design.