TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schröpfer,Thomas
AU  - Carpenter,James
TI  - Material design: informing architecture by materiality 
SN  - 3034600356
AV  - TA403.6 .S37 2010
U1  - 721.04 23
PY  - 2011///]
CY  - Basel
PB  - Birkhäuser
KW  - Building materials
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Designs and plans
KW  - Architecture, Modern
KW  - 20th century
KW  - 21st century
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Why material design? -- The alternative approach: observation, speculation, experimentation -- Difficult synthesis -- Aggregation -- Joints and unctions -- Weaving: the tectonics of textiles -- Modulation: transformation by shaping and texturing -- Capturing the ephemeral -- Responsive materials -- Materializations of nanotechnology in architecture -- Encoding: digital & analogue taxonavigation -- The future of material design
ER  -