AD 202: PATTERNS OF ARCHITECTURE

Description

Pattern-making is ubiquitous in both the natural and manmade world. The human propensity for pattern recognition and fabrication is innate. Encompassing the historical, vernacular and parametric, this title explores the creation, materialisation and theorisation of some of the world’s most significant and spectacularly patterned spaces. It investigates how interiors, buildings, cities and landscapes are patterned through design, production and manufacturing, use, time, accident and perception. It also brings into focus how contemporary advanced spatial practices and CAD/CAM are now pushing patterns to encompass a greater range of structural, programmatic, aesthetic and material effects and properties. Extending patterns far beyond the surface notion of style and decoration, Patterns of Architecture assesses how and why the deployment of patterns is shaping the future of architecture.

• Analysed through a multidisciplinary and international series of essays and designs from architects, engineers, academics, researchers and expert professionals in the field.
• Key contributors include: Hanif Kara, Patrik Schumacher and Alejandro Zaera-Polo.

CONTENTS

• Mark Garcia: Prologue for a History, Theory and Future of Patterns of Architecture and Spatial Design
• Alejandro Zaera-Polo: Patterns, Fabrics, Prototypes, Tessellations
• Patrik Schumacher: Parametric Patterns
• Mark Taylor: Relentless Patterns: The Immersive Interior
• Brian McGrath and Victoria Marshall: New Patterns in Urban Design
• Simon Swaffield: Tracing Change: Patterns in Landscape Architecture
• Helmut Pottmann: Geometry and New and Future Spatial Patterns
• Mark Garcia: Reductive Engineering Patterns: An Interview with Hanif Kara
• Julian Vincent: Biomimetic Patterns in Architectural Design
• Theodore Spyropoulos: Evolving Patterns: Correlated Systems of Interaction
• Michael Hensel and Achim Menges: Patterns in Performance-Oriented Design: An Approach towards Pattern Recognition, Generation and Instrumentalisation
• Mike Silver: Pattern Deposition: From Scripts to Applications
• Patricia A. Rodemann: Psychology and Perception of Patterns in Architecture
• Brian McGrath: Practice Profile – SAI Consultants
• Jayne Merkel: Interior Eye – Hopkins Architects’ Kroon Hall, Yale University
• David Littlefield: Building Profile – Norfolk Park Green Homes, Sheffield
• Francesca Hughes: Unit Factor – Head Banging: Engineered Neutrality + the Parametric Ceiling
• Neil Spiller: Spiller’s Bits – Basking in a World of Your Own Making
• Elma Durmisevic and Ken Yeang: Yeang’s Eco-Files – Designing for Disassembly (DfD)
• Valentina Croci: Underscape – Futuristic Retail Spaces
• Will McLean: McLean’s Nugget

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