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Despite the ever-growing sophistication of synthetic and digital tools, it's the natural world that captures the imaginations of today's vanguard designers. By looking to nature as a teacher rather than simply as a source for raw materials, pioneers in the emerging biomimicry movement are developing design methods and materials to create intelligent buildings that emulate(...)
Natural Forms in Architecture
March 2015
Hypernatural: architecture's new relationship with nature
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Despite the ever-growing sophistication of synthetic and digital tools, it's the natural world that captures the imaginations of today's vanguard designers. By looking to nature as a teacher rather than simply as a source for raw materials, pioneers in the emerging biomimicry movement are developing design methods and materials to create intelligent buildings that emulate life itself.
Natural Forms in Architecture
Painting in stone: architecture and the poetics of marble, from antiquity to the Enlightenment
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Spanning almost five millennia, 'Painting in Stone' tells a new history of premodern architecture through the material of precious stone. Illustrated examples include the synthetic gems used to simulate Sumerian and Egyptian heavens; the marble temples and mansions of Greece and Rome; the painted palaces and polychrome marble chapels of early modern Italy; and the(...)
Painting in stone: architecture and the poetics of marble, from antiquity to the Enlightenment
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Spanning almost five millennia, 'Painting in Stone' tells a new history of premodern architecture through the material of precious stone. Illustrated examples include the synthetic gems used to simulate Sumerian and Egyptian heavens; the marble temples and mansions of Greece and Rome; the painted palaces and polychrome marble chapels of early modern Italy; and the multimedia revival in 19th-century England.
Materials and Lighting
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Advanced Textiles for Health and Wellbeing celebrates the latest technological advances in fibers and fabrics. The first part of the book looks at the materials themselves, including synthetic and hybrid fibers, new weaves and knits, three-dimensional materials, coatings, biotechnology and nanotechnology. The second part considers the design innovations that have been(...)
Advanced textiles for health and well-being
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Advanced Textiles for Health and Wellbeing celebrates the latest technological advances in fibers and fabrics. The first part of the book looks at the materials themselves, including synthetic and hybrid fibers, new weaves and knits, three-dimensional materials, coatings, biotechnology and nanotechnology. The second part considers the design innovations that have been made possible in clothing, transport, and the natural and built environment.
Materials and Lighting
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New Geographies 6 aims to trace alternative, synthetic routes to design through a more elaborate understanding of the relation between metabolic models and concepts and the formal, physical, and material specificities of spatial structures across scales. This task will require addressing the planetary dimension of contemporary metabolic processes and critically examining(...)
New geographies 6: grounding metabolism
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New Geographies 6 aims to trace alternative, synthetic routes to design through a more elaborate understanding of the relation between metabolic models and concepts and the formal, physical, and material specificities of spatial structures across scales. This task will require addressing the planetary dimension of contemporary metabolic processes and critically examining the long lineage of discussions and approaches on metabolism.
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System of novelties : Dawn Finley and Mark Wamble : Interloop-Architecture / author, Dawn Finley.
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272 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, plans ; 27 cm.
Zurich, Switzerland : Park Books, [2022], ©2022
System of novelties : Dawn Finley and Mark Wamble : Interloop-Architecture / author, Dawn Finley.
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xxx, 432 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 32 cm
New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art : Distributed by H.N. Abrams, 1992.
al-Andalus : the art of Islamic Spain / edited by Jerrilynn D. Dodds.
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New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art : Distributed by H.N. Abrams, 1992.
Salmon: A red herring
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Salmon is usually thought of as pink. The colour is even called ‘salmon pink’. However, farmed salmon today would be grey. To make them the expected colour, synthetic pigments are added to their feed. Salmon are farmed in open nets, whose runoff has a severe impact on wild salmon populations, as well as on the seabed of the west coast of Scotland at large. Salmon is the(...)
Salmon: A red herring
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Salmon is usually thought of as pink. The colour is even called ‘salmon pink’. However, farmed salmon today would be grey. To make them the expected colour, synthetic pigments are added to their feed. Salmon are farmed in open nets, whose runoff has a severe impact on wild salmon populations, as well as on the seabed of the west coast of Scotland at large. Salmon is the colour of a wild fish which is neither wild, nor fish, nor even salmon. The changing colours of species around the planet are warning signs of an environmental crisis. Many of these alterations result from humans and animals ingesting and absorbing synthetic substances. Changes in flesh, scales, feathers, skin, leaves or wings give us clues to environmental and metabolic transformations around us and inside us. Continuing our work on the Isle of Skye, this project questions what colours we expect in our ‘natural’ environment. It asks us to examine how our perception of colour is changing as much as we are changing the planet.
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Carsten Nicolai : syn chron
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The centerpiece of syn chron is a mobile space that simultaneously serves as a body for transmitting acoustics, a resonant room, and projection surface. This space, which was constructed by Werner Sobek, is a crystalline architectonic structure whose translucent, synthetic skin is a medium for sonic and optic impulses. This book showcases syn chron in a rich selection of(...)
Carsten Nicolai : syn chron
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The centerpiece of syn chron is a mobile space that simultaneously serves as a body for transmitting acoustics, a resonant room, and projection surface. This space, which was constructed by Werner Sobek, is a crystalline architectonic structure whose translucent, synthetic skin is a medium for sonic and optic impulses. This book showcases syn chron in a rich selection of images and texts. The included DVD features supplementary audio and video material.
Acoustics
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Translucent materials give architects far more possibilities to exploit the sensual interplay of light and the fascination of interior-exterior interaction than plain glass, a fact proved by their increasing application. Traditionally, stretched paper, finely-cut stone, or stained glass were used to create mood and atmosphere. These are now giving way to a new generation(...)
Detail praxis : transclucent materials - glass, plastic, metals
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Translucent materials give architects far more possibilities to exploit the sensual interplay of light and the fascination of interior-exterior interaction than plain glass, a fact proved by their increasing application. Traditionally, stretched paper, finely-cut stone, or stained glass were used to create mood and atmosphere. These are now giving way to a new generation of innovative materials -- composite glass, synthetic panels, membranes and perforated metals. From the series entitled "Detail Praxis".
Materials and Lighting
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This publication offers a synthetic introduction to the felt dynamics of cities and the character of places. We understand nostalgia, desire, and hope as virtual; that is, even though they are not material, they are nevertheless real and must be accounted for. The authors take up affect, emotion, and emplacement and consider them in relation to one another and how they(...)
December 2010
Ecologies of affect: placing nostalgia, desire, and hope
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This publication offers a synthetic introduction to the felt dynamics of cities and the character of places. We understand nostalgia, desire, and hope as virtual; that is, even though they are not material, they are nevertheless real and must be accounted for. The authors take up affect, emotion, and emplacement and consider them in relation to one another and how they work to produce and are produced by certain temporal and spatial dimensions.