Performative materials in architecture and design. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Rashida Ng and Sneha Patel ; Flávio Takemoto, cover image ; Edwin Fox, cover designer ; Bethan Ball, production manager.
• Editors: Ng, Rashida; Patel, Sneha
• Other Names: Fox, Edwin photographer.; Takemoto, Flávio illustrator.; Ball, Bethan producer.
• Contents: ""Cover ""; ""Half Title""; ""Title ""; ""Copyright ""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction""; ""Experimental Performances: Materials as Actors""; ""Chapter 1: Material Ontologies ""; ""Essay: Approaching a Material History of Architecture ""; ""Projects""; ""Hylozoic Ground, Philip Beesley, Rob Gorbet, and Rachel Armstrong""; ""Wanderings, Sean Lally""; ""Material Animation, Manuel Kretzer, Ruairi Glynn""; ""Breathing Bowels, Dustin Tobias""; ""SymbiosisO, KÃ?rt Ojavee and Eszter Ozsvald""; ""Ectoplasmatic Library, Nannette Jackowski and Ricardo de Ostos"" ""The Absent Body of Architecture, Andrew Lewthwaite""""Biospheres, Not Buildings, Zbigniew Oksiuta""; ""Q + A: Steve Pike with Sneha Patel""; ""Chapter 2: Material Elements""; ""Essay: New Material Compositions ""; ""Q + A: Liat Margolis with Sneha Patel""; ""Projects""; ""Bloom, Doris Sung""; ""Nano-Textiles and Architectural Form, Klaudia Biala""; ""Blingcrete, Thorsten Klooster and Heike Klussmann""; ""Latent Shift, Rashida Ng and Sneha Patel""; ""Biomanufactured Brick, Ginger Krieg Dosier"" ""Shape_Shift, Manuel Kretzer, Edyta Augustynowicz, Sofia Georgakopoulou, Stefanie Sixt, and Dino Rossi""""Nano Vent-Skin, Agustin Otegui Saiz""; ""Reef, Robert Ley and Joshua G. Stein""; ""Q + A: Omar Khan with Sneha Patel""; ""Chapter 3: Material Fabrications""; ""Essay: Making a Digital-Material Practice ""; ""Q + A: Brandon Clifford, Wes Mcgee, and David Pigram with Sneha Patel ""; ""Projects""; ""Unikabeton Prototype, Per Dombernowsky and AsbjÃ?rn SÃ?ndergaard ""; ""Contested Boundaries, Joseph Choma""; ""Smocking: Pleated Surfaces, Kentaro Tsubaki"" ""Designed Disorder, Phillip Anzalone, Brigette Borders, and Kerri Henderson""""The Seat Slug, Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello""; ""Oxalis, Vincent Hui, Michael Lanctot, and Pierre-Alexandre Le Lay""; ""Pinch Wall, Jeremy Ficca and P. Zach Ali""; ""Tectonic Horizons, Joshua G. Stein""; ""Porous Ascend, Jacob Riiber""; ""Q + A: Patrick Harrop and Peter Hasdell with Sneha Patel""; ""Chapter 4: Material Behaviors""; ""Essay: Live Inputs: Variable Outputs ""; ""Projects""; ""Reef, Aurélie Mossé, Guggi Kofod, and David Gauthier""; ""OpenHouse, Francis Bitonti and Brian Osborn"" ""Wind Screen, Meejin Yoon and Eric HÃ&#x;weler""""The â€?Envirogrammicâ€? Response, Mark Smout and Laura Allen""; ""Actuated Matter, Karmen Franinovic, Manuel Kretzer, Daniel Bisig, Florian Wille, Mathias Gmachl, and Rachel Wingfi eld""; ""Beyond the New Materialism, Michael Silver""; ""Adaptive Fa[ca]de, Marilena Skavara""; ""The Stratus Project, Geoffrey ThÃ?n and Kathy Velikov ""; ""Q + A: Shaun Murray with Sneha Patel""; ""Chapter 5: Material Futures""; ""Essay: Speculations of Future Materiality ""; ""Contributing Authors""; ""Index""; ""Back Cover ""
• Publisher Details: Bristol, England Chicago, Illinois : Intellect
• Publication Date: 2013
• Copyright Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (290 pages), color illustrations
• Subjects: 729; Architectural design; Architectural design; Architectural design; ARCHITECTURE / Interior Design / General; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781783201419; 9781783201426; 1783201428
• Related ISBNs: 178320141X; 9781841506494; 1841506494
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 14, 2014).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.