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Architextiles / guest-edited by Mark Garcia.

Contributor(s): Series: Architectural design ; v. 76, no. 6.Publication details: London : Wiley-Academy, c2006.Description: 136 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 28 cmISBN:
  • 0470026340 (pbk.)
  • 9780470026342 (pbk.)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Architextiles.LOC classification:
  • NK8810 .A734 2006
Contents:
Editorial / Helen Castle -- Introduction: Architecture + textiles = architextiles / Mark Garcia -- Prologue for a history and theory of architextiles / Mark Garcia -- National Museum of Textile Costume, Doha, Qatar / Kathryn Findlay -- Textiles in architecture / Bradley Quinn -- The Straw House and Quilted Office, 9-10 Stock Orchard Street, Islington, London / Jeremy Till and Sarah Wigglesworth -- Impending landscapes of the architextile city: an interview with Dominique Perrault / Mark Garcia -- Blood Sense Tower, Deptford, London / Sally Quinn -- 'Otherworldliness': the pull of black velvet, latex, tights, quilts, tablecloths and frocks: an interview with Will Alsop / Mark Garcia -- Extreme networks / Peter Testa and Devyn Weiser -- Skin/weave/pattern / Nigel Coates -- Holon Design Museum, Israel / Ron Arad -- Lister Mills, Bradford / David Morley and Danielle Tinero -- Textile tectonics: an interview with Lars Spuybroek / Marcia Ludovica Tramontin -- Thomas More Council Estate, London: a re-fabricated picturesque landscape / Charlie de Bono -- The big air world: from 'cotton' to 'air' / VA Watson -- Camouflage as aesthetic sustainability / Dagmar Richter -- The great veil of the central axis / Massimiliano Kuksas -- Parametric matter / Yusuke Obuchi, Theodore Spyropoulos and Tom Verebes -- The notion of the membrane and the aesthetics of trans-textuality / Sonia Sarkissian -- Fabric architecture and flexible design / Robert Kronenburg -- Architextiles Royal College of Art Departments of Architecture and Textiles / Anne Toomey -- Woven surface and form / Tristan Simmonds, Martin Self and Daniel Bosia -- Cutty Sark, Greenwich, London / Christopher Nash -- Nirah, Bedford, UK / Jolyon Brewis -- Tambabox, Tambacounda, Senegal / Iván Juárez and Patricia Meneses -- Tensile structure design: an engineer's perspective / David Wakefield -- Y-knots, mile end and the Lower Lee Valley, East London / Mark Garcia and Jonathan Goslan -- An embellishment: purdah / Jane Rendell -- Tectonics and textiles / Matilda McQuaid -- Textiles for 21st-century living / Marie O'Mahony -- Tate in space / Opher Elia-Shaul and Danielle Tinero -- Bio-Tissue Hotel / Stefanie Surjo.
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"November/December 2006"

Editorial / Helen Castle -- Introduction: Architecture + textiles = architextiles / Mark Garcia -- Prologue for a history and theory of architextiles / Mark Garcia -- National Museum of Textile Costume, Doha, Qatar / Kathryn Findlay -- Textiles in architecture / Bradley Quinn -- The Straw House and Quilted Office, 9-10 Stock Orchard Street, Islington, London / Jeremy Till and Sarah Wigglesworth -- Impending landscapes of the architextile city: an interview with Dominique Perrault / Mark Garcia -- Blood Sense Tower, Deptford, London / Sally Quinn -- 'Otherworldliness': the pull of black velvet, latex, tights, quilts, tablecloths and frocks: an interview with Will Alsop / Mark Garcia -- Extreme networks / Peter Testa and Devyn Weiser -- Skin/weave/pattern / Nigel Coates -- Holon Design Museum, Israel / Ron Arad -- Lister Mills, Bradford / David Morley and Danielle Tinero -- Textile tectonics: an interview with Lars Spuybroek / Marcia Ludovica Tramontin -- Thomas More Council Estate, London: a re-fabricated picturesque landscape / Charlie de Bono -- The big air world: from 'cotton' to 'air' / VA Watson -- Camouflage as aesthetic sustainability / Dagmar Richter -- The great veil of the central axis / Massimiliano Kuksas -- Parametric matter / Yusuke Obuchi, Theodore Spyropoulos and Tom Verebes -- The notion of the membrane and the aesthetics of trans-textuality / Sonia Sarkissian -- Fabric architecture and flexible design / Robert Kronenburg -- Architextiles Royal College of Art Departments of Architecture and Textiles / Anne Toomey -- Woven surface and form / Tristan Simmonds, Martin Self and Daniel Bosia -- Cutty Sark, Greenwich, London / Christopher Nash -- Nirah, Bedford, UK / Jolyon Brewis -- Tambabox, Tambacounda, Senegal / Iván Juárez and Patricia Meneses -- Tensile structure design: an engineer's perspective / David Wakefield -- Y-knots, mile end and the Lower Lee Valley, East London / Mark Garcia and Jonathan Goslan -- An embellishment: purdah / Jane Rendell -- Tectonics and textiles / Matilda McQuaid -- Textiles for 21st-century living / Marie O'Mahony -- Tate in space / Opher Elia-Shaul and Danielle Tinero -- Bio-Tissue Hotel / Stefanie Surjo.

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