• Title of article

    Textiles in Architecture

  • Author/Authors

    Bradley Quinn، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2006
  • Pages
    5
  • From page
    22
  • To page
    26
  • Abstract
    The cutting edge in architecture is not sharp, but sensuous and soft. As textiles begin to emerge as megamaterials, Bradley Quinn explains how architects are pioneering new possibilities for soft structures. Fabric-formed environments are fashioning tensile buildings and inflatable pavilions, while the tailoring techniques of braiding, weaving and pleating are building supple skyscrapers and bioclimatic enclosures.
  • Keywords
    Sprach Pavilion , braiding and weaving , Austria , Ken Yeangיs proposal for bioclimatic architecture , 2001 , Shigeru Banיs Curtain Wall House , Triad Architects , Lévi-Straussיs theory of bricolage , Kühe & Kühn Architects , Maison Folie , A Büther , Lille , Becker & Gewers , France , GKD Metal Fabrics , Expo 2000 Bertelsmannיs Planet M , 2004 , Felted fabrics , Germany , Semper , Mediamesh stainless-steel textile , Hanover , Geotextiles , carbon-fibre matrices and triaxial meshes , The Fabric Framework project , Metallic fabrics , 2000 , Veech Media Architecture , Buckminster Fuller , coated textiles and nonwoven fabrics , Inflate and Architects of Air , Karau , Lars Spuybroek , pneumatic structures , Mark West at the Centre for Architectural Structure and Technology
  • Journal title
    Architectural Design
  • Serial Year
    2006
  • Journal title
    Architectural Design
  • Record number

    404037