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Author : Richard Weston
Release : 2003-01-01
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 791/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Materials, Form and Architecture by : Richard Weston
Download or read book Materials, Form and Architecture written by Richard Weston. This book was released on 2003-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published in Great Britain in 2003 by Laurence King Publishing Ltd, London."--T.p. verso.
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Release : 2006-07-25
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 798/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Material World 2 by :
Download or read book Material World 2 written by . This book was released on 2006-07-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the overwhelming success of Material World, European material experts MatériO have compiled and described innovative materials for architecture and design in the sequel: Material World 2. Once again architects, interior architects and designers can look up the ideal manufacturer, and gain inspiration for their building exteriors, interiors, and innovative products. Material World 2 is as comprehensive as the first volume: here architects and designers will find detailed product information, addresses, and contact details of manufacturers for every material featured. In addition, each material entry is accompanied by case studies, which show the material in specific applications.
Author : John Fernandez
Release : 2012-08-21
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 338/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Material Architecture by : John Fernandez
Download or read book Material Architecture written by John Fernandez. This book was released on 2012-08-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Composed of a series of essays, this book deals with the broad issues affecting the nature of architectural materials and provides a focused review of the state of the art materials. It also provides designers with the tools they need to evaluate and select from the thousands of different materials that are available to them. The book is organized into three sections; ‘Time’ looks at how the materials used in architectural design have changed over the years showing how we have come to use the materials we do in contemporary design. ‘Materials’ covers all five material families; metals, polymers, ceramics, composites and natural materials giving in depth information on their properties, behavior, origins and uses in design. It also introduces a review of the cutting edge research for each family. ‘Systems’ outlines the technical design-orientated research that uncovers how new architectural assemblies can be designed and engineered. All of this practical advice is given along with many real case examples illustrating how this knowledge and information has been, and can be, used in architectural design.
Author : Rashida Ng
Release : 2013
Genre : Architecture
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 494/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Performative Materials in Architecture and Design by : Rashida Ng
Download or read book Performative Materials in Architecture and Design written by Rashida Ng. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume illuminates both the interaction of these technologies and the role of materiality in research, design and practice, and provides an overview of representative design projects and relevant theories.
Author : Michael Bell
Release : 2012-06-27
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 469/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Post-Ductility by : Michael Bell
Download or read book Post-Ductility written by Michael Bell. This book was released on 2012-06-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third book in the series from Columbia University is focused on metals. Metals, as surface or structure as the generators of space play a role in nearly every strain of modernization in architecture. They define complete geographies of work, production, and political life. Non-architectural metals delivered in automobiles, and hard goods in the United States and worldwide have all been sourced as the engines of the sprawling late twentieth-century city in all of its forms. But in the received aspects of architectural history, metals, and in particular steel, remain less diluted; they are presented as intrinsic to the profession as material precedes concepts they are carriers of architectural meaning. Few concepts are as central in structural engineering as the ability of a material to sustain plastic deformation under tensile stress the standardization of historically known deformation limits or ductile properties in most materials allows architects and engineers to keep the analysis of structure within known parameters of finite element analysis rather then materials science. If the goal is avoid fracture, the boundaries are set and the limits of ductility are observed. Post-Ductility refers to the literal aspects of material behavior in this case of metals but also of aspects of architectural and urban space that are measured by less verifiable but nonetheless real quotients of stress and strain. It is the tension and compression of space that gives form or coherence to form. In either the case of engineering and architecture, formerly daunting degrees of risk seem to have been diminished; new levels of sophistication in calculation lower the risk tolerance for fracture, while more metaphoric readings of limits in architectural and urban space seem to have been long surpassed, at times with abandon. The counter-effort has been quite strong if not successful: there are those that want to recreate dense cities by means of compression and there are immense forces of spatial extension by way of economics, communication and transit. Space is pulled to elastic limits and made thin as highly malleable materials such as gold or lead as it is also often re-compressed as forms of urban density. If metals are a significant origin for architecture and indeed whole cities—from buildings to automobiles and labor, then what are the limits or equations that offer a new evaluation of both metals, but also of material in a wider sense, as a determining component of the built world? What does an engineer and architect bring to this arena in both local and global circumstances?
