Material processing

Author: Princeton Architectural Press
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Publication Date: 2005-09-01
Features: What new materials can architects use today? How do these materials liberate designers from constraints, creating forms that were once unimaginable but difficult to realize? Have these materials led to the emergence of new architectural aesthetics or even architectural ethics? This book showcases the architectural works of six young firms, all of which stem from the process of exploring new material applications and their implications. These works, in their originality, are both innovative and inspiring, as well as thought-provoking, establishing a reliable and applicable material vocabulary for architects and designers for both the present and the future. This book is a selected work from the 2002 Young Architects Design Competition of the New York Architectural Association, with the theme "Material Handling." The research on materials and new processing techniques in the book enables architects to anticipate new combinations of building materials, while also encouraging them to boldly imagine more traditional material applications.