The Patterns of Architecture

Ed. by Mark Garcia

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This issue of Architectural Design explores the creation, materialisation and theorisation of some of the world's most significant and spectacularly patterned spaces. It assesses how and why the use of patterns as new critical, experimental, sustainable and active forms of spatial and organisational systems are shaping the futures and developments of architecture.

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Pattern-making is ubiquitous in both the natural and manmade world.The human propensity for pattern recognition and fabrication isinnate. Encompassing the historical, vernacular and parametric,this title explores the creation, materialisation and theorisationof some of the world s most significant and spectacularly patternedspaces. It investigates how interiors, buildings, cities andlandscapes are patterned through design, production andmanufacturing, use, time, accident and perception. It also bringsinto focus how contemporary advanced spatial practices and CAD/CAMare now pushing patterns to encompass a greater range ofstructural, programmatic, aesthetic and material effects andproperties. Extending patterns far beyond the surface notion ofstyle and decoration, Patterns of Architecture assesses howand why the deployment of patterns is shaping the future ofarchitecture.

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

Produktdetails

• Architectural Design
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 14569959000
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 275mm x 210mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 600g
• ISBN-13: 9780470699591
• ISBN-10: 0470699590
• Artikelnr.: 26619285

Autorenporträt

Mark Garcia is the Research Co-ordinator and an MPhil/PhD Supervisor in the Department of Architecture at the Royal College of Art (RCA). He has worked for Branson Coates Architecture and has held academic research posts at St Antony's College (Oxford University) and the Department of Industrial Design Engineering (Royal College of Art) as well as lecturing in universities across Japan, Switzerland and the UK. He was guest-editor of AD Architextiles (Vol 76, No 6, Nov/Dec 2006) and is editor of The Diagrams of Architecture (John Wiley & Sons, January 2010).

Inhaltsangabe

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