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Material Strategies
Innovative Applications in Architecture
- 160 pages
- English
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- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Available until 23 Dec |Learn more
About this book
Blaine Brownell s best-selling Transmaterial series has introduced designers to hundreds of emergent materials that have the potential to transform our built environment. In our new Architecture Brief, Material Strategies, Brownell shows architects how creative applications of these materials achieve such transformations. Chapters based on fundamental material categories examine historical precedents, current opportunities, and future environmental challenges. Case studies featuring detailed illustrations showcase pioneering buildings from today s most forward-thinking architectural firms.
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Acknowledgments
Having had the fortunate opportunity to compile the Transmaterial series of books, I welcomed the chance to author a title about how materials could be applied in architecture. I am indebted to Jennifer Thompson, Clare Jacobson, Linda Lee, Paul Wagner, and Kevin Lippert at Princeton Architectural Press for their support of a book that attempts to transcend the how-to-manual model and illuminate the elusive nature of material innovation in design.
I would like to thank Renee Cheng, Thomas Fisher, Mary Guzowski, Rachel Iannacone, Lance LaVine, and Stephen Weeks at the University of Minnesota for encouraging my research on material applications in architecture, as well as the rest of the faculty, staff, and students in the College of Design of the University of Minnesota for their continued support. I am also grateful to the graduate students who participated in my Material Strategies seminar for their valued input during the past two years: Solomon Atta, Andrew Blaisdell, Skip Carlson, Peter Costanzo, Katherine Dale, Nate Dodge, Molly Eagen, Josh Ekstrand, Jennifer Garman, Anthony Harrington, Aric Larson, Mark LaVenture, Peter Leahy, Alison Markowitz, Engy Michael, Jack Northrup, Lane Rapson, Nathan Roisen, Brittney Schwager, Gregory Schwartz, Piseth Tep, James Thompson, Elizabeth Turner, Allison Verdoorn, and Ahti Westphal.
I am deeply indebted to my wife, Heather Brownell, who provided invaluable assistance in securing photography and permissions for the book and who accompanied me to China to research several important projects. This trip to East Asia was made possible by a University of Minnesota Imagine Fund grant, as well as by the generous hospitality of Eric and Jennifer Phillips in Shanghai and Hiroshi Ota in Tokyo.
I am very grateful to Ned Cramer, Braulio Agnese, Elizabeth Donoff, Lindsey Roberts, and Greig O’Brien of Hanley Wood for their support of my ongoing materials investigations in Architect magazine’s Mind & Matter column and in other publications.
Finally, I would like to thank my family for their patient and loving support of this endeavor.
Project Index
0-14 Tower
Architect: Reiser + Umemoto
Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Year of Completion: 2010
Featured Material: Concrete
Concrete
40 Bond Street
Architect: Herzog & de Meuron
Location: New York, New York
Year of Completion: 2008
Featured Material: Cast glass
Glass
1933 Slaughterhouse
Architect: C. H. Stableford
Location: Shanghai, China
Year of Completion: 1933
Featured Material: Concrete
Concrete
AO Aoyama
Architect: Sakakura Associates
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Year of Completion: 2009
Featured Material: Glass curtain wall
Glass
Aoba-tei restaurant
Architect: Atelier Hitoshi Abe
Location: Sendai, Japan
Year of Completion: 2005
Featured Material: Perforated steel
Metal
Aomori Museum of Art
Architect: Jun Aoki & Associates
Location: Aomori, Japan
Year of Completion: 2006
Featured Material: Veneer brick, rammed earth
Mineral
Ar de Rio Bar
Architect: Guedes + DeCampos
Location: Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal
Year of Completion: 2008
Featured Material: Steel honeycomb structure
Metal
Armani Fifth Avenue
Architect: Massimiliano & Doriana Fuksas
Location: New York, New York
Year of Completion: 2009
Featured Material: Polymer-coated steel
Plastic
Banzai Corner 96
Artist: Yukinori Yanagi
Location: Benesse House Museum, Naoshima, Japan
Year of Completion: 1991
Featured Material: Repurposed plastic figurines
Plastic
Beijing National Aquatics
Center for the 2008
Summer Olympics
Architect: PTW Architects
Location: Beijing, China
Year of Completion: 2008
Featured Material: ETFE cladding
Plastic
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Architect: Gordon Bunshaft/SOM
Location: New Haven, Connecticut
Year of Completion: 1963
Featured Material: Translucent marble
Mineral
Blue Glass Passage
Architect: James Carpenter Design Associates Inc.
Location: Seattle,...
Table of contents
- Introduction
- Mineral
- Concrete
- Wood
- Metal
- Glass
- Plastic
- Acknowledgments