Material Design (eBook)

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Thomas Schröpfer is Associate Professor and Programme Director of Architecture at Singapore University of Technology and Design SUTD. James Carpenter is principal of James Carpenter Design Associates in New York. Sheila Kennedy is principal of Kennedy & Violich Architecture in Boston and teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Toshiko Mori is principal of Toshiko Mori Architect in New York and teaches at the Hardvard University Graduate School of Design. Liat Margolis is a landscape architect and teaches at the John Daniels Architecture School of the University of Toronto. Nader Tehrani is principal of Office dA in Boston and Head of the Department of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Peter Yeadon is principal of Decker Yeadon in New York and teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design. Erwin Viray is an architect and teaches at the National University of Singapore

Thomas Schröpfer, Singapore University of Technology and Design SUTD, Singapur.

Why Material Design? Foreword by Erwin Viray 8
The Alternative Approach: Observation, Speculation, Experimentation 10
The Material-Design Connection 10
Material Studies in Practice 13
New Materials: The Architect's Role 19
Quality, Craft, and Culture in Material Design 21
Technology, Representation, Communication 23
Inherent Expression: A Greater Understanding of Materials' Potential for Expression 25
Scale-less Design and Material Processes 30
Notes 33
Difficult Synthesis 34
Introduction: Language and Surplus 34
A Discipline in Search of a Medium 34
Beyond Paper: Reclaiming Material Agency 36
Inputs, Constraints, and Intents 39
Digital Research 40
The Acrobatics of the Cover-Up 41
Performance and Its Predicaments 43
Difficult Synthesis 44
Notes 47
Aggregation 48
Tectonics 48
The Architectural Figure Configured: Part-to-Whole Relations 48
Patterning and the Problem of the Corner 51
Two- and Three-dimensional Patterns 52
Conclusion 61
Joints and Junctions 62
The Role of Detailing in the Act of Architecture 62
Fabric and Figure in Architectural Joinery 65
American and Japanese Joinery: Conditions of Complexity 68
Constraints of Description: Utzon and Gehry 69
Notes 75
Weaving: The Tectonics of Textiles 76
The Process of Weaving 76
A New Conception of Surface 79
Innovations and Applications in Engineered Textiles 80
Technology Transfer: Boat Hulls to Architecture 83
Notes 87
Modulation: Transformation by Shaping and Texturing 88
Modulating Modulation 88
Modulating the Shaped 94
Modulating the Shapeless 96
From Technique to Architecture 102
Notes 105
Capturing the Ephemeral 106
Volumetric Light 106
Latency 108
Expanding the Boundary Between Inside and Outside 111
Transparency, Reflection, and Refraction 112
Responsive Planes 112
Reconnecting to Natural Events 117
Responsive Materials 118
New Materials, New Models of Practice 118
Hybrid Materials 118
Design in the Fourth Dimension 118
The Power of the Many 120
Responsive Systems: Potentials for New Environmental Practices 120
Pushing the Envelope 121
Interactive Environmental Media: Emerging Design Strategies 121
Notes 131
Materializations of Nanotechnology in Architecture 132
Four Approaches to Nanotechnology in Design Innovation 132
By Mimesis 132
By Application 136
By Experimentation 139
By Speculation 142
Notes 147
Encoding: Digital & Analogue Taxonavigation
Newness 148
Genre: Unclassifiable 154
Material Collections 155
Analogue 158
Digital 160
1 : 1 161
Notes 163
The Future of Material Design 164
Material Technologies 164
Design Methods 171
The Problem-Solving Approach: Pitfalls and Challenges 181
Notes 185
Appendix 186
On the Author and the Contributors 186
Index of Names 188
Subject Index 190
Illustration Credits 192