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3D-Printed Body Architecture
About this book
Some architects dream of 3D-printing houses. Some even fantasise about 3D-printing entire cities. But what is the real potential of 3D printing for architects? This issue focuses on another strand of 3D-printing practice emerging among architects operating at a much smaller scale that is potentially more significant. Several architects have been working with the fashion industry to produce some exquisitely designed 3D-printed wearables. Other architects have been 3D-printing food, jewellery and other items at the scale of the human body. But what is the significance of this work? And how do these 3D-printed body-scale items relate to the discipline of architecture? Are they merely a distraction from the real business of the architect? Or do they point towards a new form of proto-architecture – like furniture, espresso makers and pavilions before them – that tests out architectural ideas and explores tectonic properties at a smaller scale? Or does this work constitute an entirely new arena of design? In other words, is 3D printing at the human scale to be seen as a new genre of 'body architecture'? This issue contains some of the most exciting work in this field today, and seeks to chart and analyse its significance.
Contributors include: Paola Antonelli/MoMA, Francis Bitonti, Niccolo Casas, Behnaz Farahi, Madeline Gannon, Eric Goldemberg/MONAD Studio, Kyle von Hasseln/3D Systems Culinary Lab, Rem D Koolhaas, Julia K?rner, Neil Leach, Steven Ma/Xuberance, Neri Oxman/MIT Media Lab, Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello, Gilles Retsin, Jessica Rosenkrantz/Nervous System, and Patrik Schumacher/Zaha Hadid Architects.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Copyright Page
- About the Guest-Editors
- Introduction: What is 3D-Printed Body Architecture?
- Dermi-Domus: A Grown Wardrobe for Bodies and Buildings
- Curating the Digital: An Interview with MoMA’s Paola Antonelli
- Interactions: Dialogues on Body, Protections and Derivatives
- Digitally Crafted Couture
- Dress/Code: Democratising Design Through Computation and Digital Fabrication
- Mass Customisation: Designed in China, Produced Globally
- Micromechanical Assemblies and the Human Body
- Reinventing Shoes: United Nude
- Size Matters: Why Architecture is the Future of 3D Printing
- Material Behaviours in 3D-Printed Fashion Items
- Clay Bodies: Crafting the Future with 3D Printing
- Crystalline Tectonics: An Architect’s Guide to 3D-Printing Sugar or Anything Else
- Tectonism in Architecture, Design and Fashion: Innovations in Digital Fabrication as Stylistic Drivers
- The Shape of Touch: On-Body Interfaces for Digital Design and Fabrication
- The Sonic Spectacle of the Enhanced Body
- Counterpoint: Teapots, Dresses and Chairs
- Contributors
- ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN: 3D-PRINTED BODY ARCHITECTURE
- What is Architectural Design?
- ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN: FORTHCOMING AD TITLES
- EULA