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Architextiles

Mark Garcia (Guest Editor)
ISBN: 978-0-470-02634-2
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136 pages
January 2007
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Editorial (Helen Castle).

Introduction: Architecture + Textiles = Architextiles (Mark Garcia).

Prologue for a History and Theory of Architextiles (Mark Garcia).

National Museum of Textile Costume, Doha, Qatar (Kathryn Findlay).

Textiles in Architecture (Bradley Quinn).

The Straw House and Quilted Office, 9–10 Stock Orchard Street, Islington, London (Jeremy Till and Sarah Wigglesworth).

Impending Landscapes of the Architextile City: An Interview with Dominique Perrault (Mark Garcia).

Blood Sense Tower, Deptford, London (Sally Quinn).

'Otherworldliness': The Pull of Black Velvet, Latex, Tights, Quilts, Tablecloths and Frocks: An Interview with Will Alsop (Mark Garcia).

Extreme Networks (Peter Testa and Devyn Weiser).

Skin/Weave/Pattern (Nigel Coates).

Holon Design Museum, Israel (Ron Arad).

Lister Mills, Bradford (David Morley and Danielle Tinero).

Textile Tectonics: An Interview with Lars Spuybroek (Maria Ludovica Tramontin).

Thomas More Council Estate, London: A re- Fabricated Picturesque Landscape (Charlie de Bono).

The Big Air World: From 'Cotton' to 'Air' (Dr VA Watson).

Camouflage as Aesthetic Sustainability (Dagmar Richter).

The Great Veil of the Central Axis (Massimiliano Fuksas).

Parametric Matter (Yusuke Obuchi, Theodore Spyropoulos and Tom Verebes).

The Notion of the Membrane and the Aesthetics of Trans-Textuality (Sonia Sarkissian).

Fabric Architecture and Flexible Design (Robert Kronenburg).

Architextiles: Royal College of Art Departments of Architecture and Textiles (Anne Toomey).

Woven Surface and Form (Tristan Simmonds, Martin Self and Daniel Bosia).

Cutty Sark, Greenwich, London (Christopher Nash).

Nirah, Bedford, UK (Jolyon Brewis).

Tambabox, Tambacounda, Senegal (Iván Juárez and Patricia Meneses).

Tensile Structure Design: An Engineer’s Perspective (David Wakefield).

Y-Knots, Mile End and the Lower Lee Valley, East London (Mark Garcia and Jonathan Goslan).

An Embellishment: Purdah (Jane Rendell).

Tectonics and Textiles (Matilda McQuaid).

Textiles for 21st-Century Living (Marie O'Mahony).

Tate in Space (Opher Elia-Shaul and Danielle Tinero).

Bio-Tissue Hotel (Stefanie Surjo).

Interior Eye: The Hotel of Reflections (Howard Watson).

Building Profile: National Waterfront Museum, Swansea (Jeremy Melvin).

Practice Profile: Sauerbruch Hutton (Jayne Merkel).

Home Run: Project Units 2b and 2c, Nuovo Portello, Milan (Valentina Croci)

McLean's Nuggets (Will McLean).

Site Lines: Fiat Tagliero Service Station (Edward Denison).

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