Abstract :
A hybrid term, architextiles encompasses a wide range of projects and ways of thinking that unite architecture and textiles. By way of introduction to this issue, guest-editor Mark Garcia highlights the significant rise of interest in this confluence by theorists, architects, engineers, textile designers, materials scientists and artists. He also explains how, as a hybrid mode of design and practice, architextiles is better able to respond to societyʹs fast-changing cultural and consumer demands, enabling the production of more dynamic, flexible, interactive, event and process-based spaces.
Keywords :
Richard Rogersי Millennium Dome , Non-Standard Architecture exhibition , Judit Kimpianיs Pneumatrix PhD research project (2001) , Marie OיMahony and Sarah Braddock Clarkeיs Techno Textiles , 2003 , Air Archipelago , Extreme Textiles at the Cooper Hewitt , Dominique Perrault Architecte , Beijing 2008 Olympic Watercube swimming pool by PTW Architects , London (1999) , Pompidou Centre , Inflateיs Unipart , New York (2005) , Berlin Velodrome and Swimming Pool , Grimshawיs Airquarium and Cutty Sark , Skin and Bones at the Museum of Contemporary Art , Berlin , Airbeams by Vertigo developed for the US Army Natick Soldier Centre in Massachusetts , Mina Tent City , Lars Spuybroek , 1999 , Fosterיs St Mary Axe , Los Angeles (2006-07) , Germany , Phillip Beasley , Saudi Arabia , textile way of thinking , Robert Hirschfield , Koolhaasיs Seattle Public Library , Bradley Quinnיs The Fashion of Architecture , Paris , Big M projects , 1997 , Frank Gehry , En Guard , Herzog & de Meuron , NASA Pathfinder mission in 1997-98 , New York (1998) and Lewis Residence (1995) , World Expo , Tilburg Textile Museum , Murphy Jahnיs Bangkok International Airport (2006) , ONL , Progressive Architecture , The Netherlands , Kurt Forster , Manhattan , London 2005 , Textile Growth Monument , Nicholas Grimshawיs Space Centre Rocket Tower in Leicester (2001) , NSA Muscle installation , software such as Testa Architectureיs Weaver and Tensyיs inTENS , 2005 , S Hanna and PA Beasley , Astor Place Hotel , RCA Department of Architecture , ONL
