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Pattern-making is ubiquitous in both the natural and manmade world. The human propensity for pattern recognition and fabrication is innate. Encompassing the historical, vernacular and parametric, this title explores the creation, materialisation and theorisation of some of the world's most significant and spectacularly patterned spaces.

Table of Contents
Editorial (Helen Castle).

Introduction.

Prologue for a History, Theory and Future of Patterns of Architecture and Spatial Design (Mark Garcia).

Patterns, Fabrics, Prototypes, Tessellations (Alejandro Zaera-Polo).

Parametric Patterns (Patrik Schumacher).

Relentless Patterns: The Immersive Interior (Mark Taylor).

New Patterns in Urban Design (Brian McGrath and Victoria Marshall).

Tracing Change: Patterns in Landscape Architecture (Simon Swaffield).

Geometry and New and Future Spatial Patterns (Helmut Pottmann).

Reductive Engineering Patterns: An Interview with Hanif Kara (Mark Garcia).

Biomimetic Patterns in Architectural Design (Julian Vincent).

Evolving Patterns: Correlated Systems of Interaction (Theodore Spyropoulos).

Patterns in Performance-Oriented Design: An Approach towards Pattern Recognition, Generation and Instrumentalisation (Michael Hensel and Achim Menges).

Pattern Deposition: From Scripts to Applications (Mike Silver).

Psychology and Perception of Patterns in Architecture (Patricia A Rodemann).

Practice Profile.

SAI Consultants (Brian McGrath).

Interior Eye.

Hopkins Architects' Kroon Hall, Yale University (Jayne Merkel).

Building Profile.

Norfolk Park Green Homes, Sheffield (David Littlefield).

Unit Factor.

Head Banging: Engineered Neutrality + the Parametric Ceiling (Francesca Hughes).

Spiller's Bits.

Basking in a World of Your Own Making (Neil Spiller).

Yeang's Eco-Files.

Designing for Disassembly (DfD) (Elma Durmisevic and Ken Yeang).

Underscape.

Futuristic Retail Spaces (Valentina Croci).

McLean's Nuggets (Will McLean).

The Patterns of Architecture

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      Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
      Publication Date: 06/11/2009
      ISBN13: 9780470699591, 978-0470699591
      ISBN10: 0470699590
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Pattern-making is ubiquitous in both the natural and manmade world. The human propensity for pattern recognition and fabrication is innate. Encompassing the historical, vernacular and parametric, this title explores the creation, materialisation and theorisation of some of the world's most significant and spectacularly patterned spaces.

      Table of Contents
      Editorial (Helen Castle).

      Introduction.

      Prologue for a History, Theory and Future of Patterns of Architecture and Spatial Design (Mark Garcia).

      Patterns, Fabrics, Prototypes, Tessellations (Alejandro Zaera-Polo).

      Parametric Patterns (Patrik Schumacher).

      Relentless Patterns: The Immersive Interior (Mark Taylor).

      New Patterns in Urban Design (Brian McGrath and Victoria Marshall).

      Tracing Change: Patterns in Landscape Architecture (Simon Swaffield).

      Geometry and New and Future Spatial Patterns (Helmut Pottmann).

      Reductive Engineering Patterns: An Interview with Hanif Kara (Mark Garcia).

      Biomimetic Patterns in Architectural Design (Julian Vincent).

      Evolving Patterns: Correlated Systems of Interaction (Theodore Spyropoulos).

      Patterns in Performance-Oriented Design: An Approach towards Pattern Recognition, Generation and Instrumentalisation (Michael Hensel and Achim Menges).

      Pattern Deposition: From Scripts to Applications (Mike Silver).

      Psychology and Perception of Patterns in Architecture (Patricia A Rodemann).

      Practice Profile.

      SAI Consultants (Brian McGrath).

      Interior Eye.

      Hopkins Architects' Kroon Hall, Yale University (Jayne Merkel).

      Building Profile.

      Norfolk Park Green Homes, Sheffield (David Littlefield).

      Unit Factor.

      Head Banging: Engineered Neutrality + the Parametric Ceiling (Francesca Hughes).

      Spiller's Bits.

      Basking in a World of Your Own Making (Neil Spiller).

      Yeang's Eco-Files.

      Designing for Disassembly (DfD) (Elma Durmisevic and Ken Yeang).

      Underscape.

      Futuristic Retail Spaces (Valentina Croci).

      McLean's Nuggets (Will McLean).

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