Material Strategies: Innovative Applications in Architecture (Architecture Briefs)
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| Rating | : | 4.68 (579 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1568989865 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-11 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Blaine Brownell's best-selling Transmaterial series has introduced designers to hundreds of emergent materials that have the potential to transform our built environment. Chapters based on fundamental material categories examine historical precedents, current opportunities, and future environmental challenges. In our new Architecture Brief, Material Strategies, Brownell shows architects how creative applications of these materials achieve such transformations. Case studies featuring detailed illustrations showcase pioneering buildings from today's most forward-thinking architectural firms.
Outstanding book for those interested in the world of materiality INmatteria This is a must have book to incursion into the world of innovative materials after further understanding traditional construction materials. As a book reviewer I bought this one as a reference guide as Author Blaine Brownell is one of the rare Architects interested specifically on the topic of materiality i. "It has good approach" according to Aymen. This book discuss the material approach in architecture design. It helps me to get better idea in think about digital design and fabrication. I can tell that this book is import and to cover the whole idea of digital design and fabricationThe size of book is small that you easily can use it everywhere. Good. Five Stars Everything Went good!!! Recommended
Blaine Brownell is an architect, materials researcher, and sustainable building advisor whose work has been widely published and exhibited. . He is also the recipient of a Fulbright fellowship to Japan for 2006a "2007. He is the author of Transmaterial and the editor of the online materials forum Transstudio
"In the increasingly speculative world of digital design and online architecture, Blaine Brownell is a bricks-and-mortar kind of guy. As founding principal of Transstudio, Brownell heads a firm dedicated to emergent materials research, specializing in the development of architecture focused on innovative uses of concrete, glass, wood, metal, and plastic. And in Material Strategies, the author of the Transmaterial series offers another necessary corrective to the field's digital enthusiasts: It's an ode to buildings blocky and chalky, friable, brassy, and glassy. Material Strategies is intended not just to reacquaint architects with the nuts and bolts of architecture, but to insist, in the face of the field's digital enthusiasts, that innovation can come not just from a drafting program but from the latent potential found in concrete, glass, masonry, wood, metal, and plastic." --Surfac