AD 184 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. Architextiles 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, Architextiles, brings together architects, designers, engineers, technologists, theorists and materials researchers to unravel these new methodologies of fabricating space.

CONTENTS

• Mark Garcia: Introduction: Architecture + Textiles = Architextiles
• Mark Garcia: Prologue for a History and Theory of Architextiles
• Kathryn Findlay: National Museum of Textile Costume, Doha, Qatar
• Bradley Quinn: Textiles in Architecture
• Jeremy Till and Sarah Wigglesworth: The Straw House and Quilted Office, 9–10 Stock Orchard Street, Islington, London
• Mark Garcia: Impending Landscapes of the Architextile City: An Interview with Dominique Perrault
• Sally Quinn: Blood Sense Tower, Deptford, London
• Mark Garcia: ‘Otherworldliness’: The Pull of Black Velvet, Latex, Tights, Quilts, Tablecloths and Frocks: An Interview with Will Alsop
• Peter Testa and Devyn Weiser: Extreme Networks 
• Nigel Coates: Skin/Weave/Pattern
• Ron Arad: Holon Design Museum, Israel 
• David Morley and Danielle Tinero: Lister Mills, Bradford
• Maria Ludovica Tramontin: Textile Tectonics: An Interview with Lars Spuybroek
• Charlie de Bono: Thomas More Council Estate, London: A re- Fabricated Picturesque Landscape
• Dr VA Watson: The Big Air World: From ‘Cotton’ to ‘Air’
• Dagmar Richter: Camouflage as Aesthetic Sustainability
• Massimiliano Fuksas: The Great Veil of the Central Axis
• Yusuke Obuchi, Theodore Spyropoulos and Tom Verebes: Parametric Matter
• Sonia Sarkissian: The Notion of the Membrane and the Aesthetics of Trans-Textuality
• Robert Kronenburg: Fabric Architecture and Flexible Design
• Anne Toomey: Architextiles: Royal College of Art Departments of Architecture and Textiles
• Tristan Simmonds, Martin Self and Daniel Bosia: Woven Surface and Form
• Christopher Nash: Cutty Sark, Greenwich, London
• Jolyon Brewis: Nirah, Bedford, UK
• Iván Juárez and Patricia Meneses: Tambabox, Tambacounda, Senegal
• David Wakefield: Tensile Structure Design: An Engineer’s Perspective
• Mark Garcia and Jonathan Goslan: Y-Knots, Mile End and the Lower Lee Valley, East London
• Jane Rendell: An Embellishment: Purdah
• Matilda McQuaid: Tectonics and Textiles
• Marie O’Mahony: Textiles for 21st-Century Living 
• Opher Elia-Shaul and Danielle Tinero: Tate in Space 
• Stefanie Surjo: Bio-Tissue Hotel
• Howard Watson: Interior Eye: The Hotel of Reflections
• Jeremy Melvin: Building Profile: National Waterfront Museum, Swansea 
• Jayne Merkel: Practice Profile: Sauerbruch Hutton
• Valentina Croci: Home Run: Project Units 2b and 2c, Nuovo Portello, Milan
• Will McLean: McLean’s Nuggets
• Edward Denison: Site Lines: Fiat Tagliero Service Station

136 pages, color ills / 21 x 27,5 cm / English