{"product_id":"architextiles-isbn-9780470026342","title":"Architextiles","description":"Focusing on the intersections between textiles and architectural design, this title communicates the full range of possibilities for a multidisciplinary design hybrid. It examines the generative concepts, forms, patterns, materials, processes, technologies and practices that are driving this cross-fertilisation in contemporary urban and architectural design. \u003ci\u003eArchitextiles\u003c\/i\u003e represent a transition stage in the reorientation of spatial design towards a more networked, dynamic, interactive, communicative and multifunctional state. The paradigms of fashion and textile design, with their unique, accelerated aesthetics and ability to embody a burgeoning, composite and complex range of properties such as lightness, flow, flexibility, surface, complexity and movement have a natural affinity with architecture's shifts towards a more liquid state. The preoccupation with textiles in architecture challenges traditional perceptions and practices in interior, architectural, urban, textile and fashion design. Interweaving new designs and speculative projects for the future, \u003ci\u003eArchitextiles\u003c\/i\u003e, brings together architects, designers, engineers, technologists, theorists and materials researchers to unravel these new methodologies of fabricating space.      \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eContributors\u003c\/b\u003e include:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDominique Perrault (DPA)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLars Spuybroek (NOX and University of Atlanta)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWill Alsop (RCA and SMC Alsop)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNigel Coates (RCA and Branson Coates Architecture)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMatilda McQuaid (Cooper Hewitt Museum)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRon Arad (RCA and Ron Arad Associates)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTristan Simmonds, Daniel Bosia and Martin Self (Arup Advanced Geometry Unit)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDavid Wakefield (Tensys)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDagmar Richter (UCLA)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePeter Testa and Devyn Weiser (Columbia University and Testa Architecture)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTom Verebes, Yosuke Obuchi and Theodore Spyropoulos (AA_DRL)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert Kronenburg (University of Liverpool)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnne Toomey (RCA)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBradley Quinn\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMarie O' Mahoney\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMark Garcia (RCA)\u003c\/p\u003e  Editorial (\u003cb\u003eHelen Castle\u003c\/b\u003e).  \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Architecture + Textiles = Architextiles (\u003cb\u003eMark Garcia\u003c\/b\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrologue for a History and Theory of Architextiles (\u003cb\u003eMark Garcia\u003c\/b\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNational Museum of Textile Costume, Doha, Qatar (\u003cb\u003eKathryn Findlay\u003c\/b\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTextiles in Architecture (\u003cb\u003eBradley Quinn\u003c\/b\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Straw House and Quilted Office, 9–10 Stock Orchard Street, Islington, London (\u003cb\u003eJeremy Till and Sarah Wigglesworth\u003c\/b\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eImpending Landscapes of the Architextile City: An Interview with Dominique Perrault (\u003cb\u003eMark Garcia\u003c\/b\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBlood Sense Tower, Deptford, London (\u003cb\u003eSally Quinn\u003c\/b\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Otherworldliness': The Pull of Black Velvet, Latex, Tights, Quilts, Tablecloths and Frocks: An Interview with Will Alsop (\u003cb\u003eMark Garcia\u003c\/b\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExtreme Networks (\u003cb\u003ePeter Testa\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eDevyn Weiser\u003c\/b\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSkin\/Weave\/Pattern (\u003cb\u003eNigel Coates\u003c\/b\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHolon Design Museum, Israel (\u003cb\u003eRon Arad\u003c\/b\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLister Mills, Bradford (\u003cb\u003eDavid Morley\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eDanielle Tinero\u003c\/b\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTextile Tectonics: An Interview with Lars Spuybroek (\u003cb\u003eMaria Ludovica Tramontin\u003c\/b\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas More Council Estate, London: A re- Fabricated Picturesque Landscape (\u003cb\u003eCharlie de Bono\u003c\/b\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Big Air World: From 'Cotton' to 'Air' (\u003cb\u003eDr VA Watson\u003c\/b\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCamouflage as Aesthetic Sustainability (\u003cb\u003eDagmar Richter\u003c\/b\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Great Veil of the Central Axis (\u003cb\u003eMassimiliano Fuksas\u003c\/b\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eParametric Matter (\u003cb\u003eYusuke Obuchi, Theodore Spyropoulos\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eTom Verebes\u003c\/b\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Notion of the Membrane and the Aesthetics of Trans-Textuality (\u003cb\u003eSonia Sarkissian\u003c\/b\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFabric Architecture and Flexible Design (\u003cb\u003eRobert Kronenburg\u003c\/b\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eArchitextiles: Royal College of Art Departments of Architecture and Textiles (\u003cb\u003eAnne Toomey\u003c\/b\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWoven Surface and Form (\u003cb\u003eTristan Simmonds, Martin Self\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eDaniel Bosia\u003c\/b\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCutty Sark, Greenwich, London (\u003cb\u003eChristopher Nash\u003c\/b\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNirah, Bedford, UK (\u003cb\u003eJolyon Brewis\u003c\/b\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTambabox, Tambacounda, Senegal (\u003cb\u003eIván Juárez\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003ePatricia Meneses\u003c\/b\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTensile Structure Design: An Engineer’s Perspective (\u003cb\u003eDavid Wakefield\u003c\/b\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eY-Knots, Mile End and the Lower Lee Valley, East London (\u003cb\u003eMark Garcia\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eJonathan Goslan\u003c\/b\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Embellishment: Purdah (\u003cb\u003eJane Rendell\u003c\/b\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTectonics and Textiles (\u003cb\u003eMatilda McQuaid\u003c\/b\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTextiles for 21st-Century Living (\u003cb\u003eMarie O'Mahony\u003c\/b\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTate in Space (\u003cb\u003eOpher Elia-Shaul\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eDanielle Tinero\u003c\/b\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBio-Tissue Hotel (\u003cb\u003eStefanie Surjo\u003c\/b\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInterior Eye: The Hotel of Reflections (\u003cb\u003eHoward Watson\u003c\/b\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBuilding Profile: National Waterfront Museum, Swansea (\u003cb\u003eJeremy Melvin\u003c\/b\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePractice Profile: Sauerbruch Hutton (\u003cb\u003eJayne Merkel\u003c\/b\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHome Run: Project Units 2b and 2c, Nuovo Portello, Milan (\u003cb\u003eValentina Croci\u003c\/b\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMcLean's Nuggets (\u003cb\u003eWill McLean\u003c\/b\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSite Lines: Fiat Tagliero Service Station (\u003cb\u003eEdward Denison\u003c\/b\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e  \"Architextiles AD was conceived and designed by the RCA's deputy head of textiles and Architextiles project leader Anne Toomey and Mark Garcia, academic co-ordinator in architecture. With 32 contributors from around the world, Architextiles AD features commissioned essays, design projects and interviews by senior RCA staff.\" (\u003ci\u003eDesign Week\u003c\/i\u003e, December 2006)  \u003cp\u003e\"In a successful mix, the magazine offers topical debates…that may inspire textile engineers and designers to greater efforts \" (\u003ci\u003eTextile Forum,\u003c\/i\u003e March 2007)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e “The pictures are fabulous and fascinating…they grab the interest and imagination…I would recommend this publication and the series.” (\u003ci\u003eBuilding Engineer,\u003c\/i\u003e May 2007)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eMark Garcia\u003c\/b\u003e is the academic coordinator in the Department of Architecture at the RCA.  He has lectured on the RCA-wide MPhil\/PhD Research Methods Course and teaches spatial design theory and design research methodologies.  His current projects focus on the relationships between architectural\/urban design and fashion\/textile design, and on contemporary spatial design theory and the visualisation of art and design research methodologies, the architectural diagram and sketch, and on play, games and toys in architecture.  Focusing on the intersections between textile and architectural design, this title communicates the full range of possibilities for a multidisciplinary design hybrid.  It examines the generative set of concepts, forms, patterns, materials, processes, technologies and practices that are driving this cross-fertilisation in contemporary urban and architectural design.  \u003ci\u003eArchitextiles\u003c\/i\u003e represents a transition stage in the reorientation of spatial design towards a more networked, dynamic, interactive, multifunctional and communicative state.  The paradigms of fashion and textile design, with their unique, accelerated aesthetics and ability to embody a burgeoning, composite and complex range of properties such as lightness, flow, flexibility, surface, complexity and movement have a natural affinity with architecture’s shifts towards a more liquid state.  The preoccupation with textiles in architecture challenges traditional perceptions and practices in interior, architectural, urban, landscape and fashion design.  Interweaving new designs and speculative projects for the future, \u003ci\u003eArchitextiles\u003c\/i\u003e brings together architects, designers, engineers, technologists, theorists and material researchers to unravel these new methodologies of fabricating space.  It features interviews with Will Alsop, Dominique Perrault and Lars Spuybroek, as well as contributions from Nigel Coates, Robert Kronenburg, Matilda McQuaid, Dagmar Richter, Peter Testa and Bradley Quinn.  It also encompasses new projects and writings from young and emerging designers and theorists.  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInterior Eye\u003c\/b\u003e The Sumahan on the Water, Istanbul\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBuilding Profile\u003c\/b\u003e National Waterfront Museum, Swansea\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePractice Profile\u003c\/b\u003e Sauerbruch Hutton\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHome Run\u003c\/b\u003e Nuovo Portello, Milan\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Academy Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47988761067749,"sku":"NP9780470026342","price":53.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780470026342.jpg?v=1761781487","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/architextiles-isbn-9780470026342","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}