Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Focusing on the intersections between textiles and architectural design, this title communicates the full range of possibilities for a multidisciplinary design hybrid. It examines the generative concepts, forms, patterns, materials, processes, technologies and practices that are driving this cross-fertilisation in contemporary urban and architectural design. Architextiles represent a transition stage in the reorientation of spatial design towards a more networked, dynamic, interactive, communicative and multifunctional state. The paradigms of fashion and textile design, with their unique, accelerated aesthetics and ability to embody a burgeoning, composite and complex range of properties such as lightness, flow, flexibility, surface, complexity and movement have a natural affinity with architecture's shifts towards a more liquid state. The preoccupation with textiles in architecture challenges traditional perceptions and practices in interior, architectural, urban, textile and fashion design. Interweaving new designs and speculative projects for the future, Architextiles , brings together architects, designers, engineers, technologists, theorists and materials researchers to unravel these new methodologies of fabricating space.

Contributors include:

Dominique Perrault (DPA)

Lars Spuybroek (NOX and University of Atlanta)

Will Alsop (RCA and SMC Alsop)

Nigel Coates (RCA and Branson Coates Architecture)

Matilda McQuaid (Cooper Hewitt Museum)

Ron Arad (RCA and Ron Arad Associates)

Tristan Simmonds, Daniel Bosia and Martin Self (Arup Advanced Geometry Unit)

David Wakefield (Tensys)

Dagmar Richter (UCLA)

Peter Testa and Devyn Weiser (Columbia University and Testa Architecture)

Tom Verebes, Yosuke Obuchi and Theodore Spyropoulos (AA_DRL)

Robert Kronenburg (University of Liverpool)

Anne Toomey (RCA)

Bradley Quinn

Marie O' Mahoney

Mark Garcia (RCA)

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Editorial (p. 4)
• Introduction: Architecture + Textiles = Architextiles (p. 5)
• Prologue for a History and Theory of Architextiles (p. 12)
• National Museum of Textile Costume, Doha, Qatar (p. 21)
• Textiles in Architecture (p. 22)
• The Straw House and Quilted Office, 9-10 Stock Orchard Street, Islington, London (p. 27)
• Impending Landscapes of the Architextile City: An Interview with Dominique Perrault (p. 28)
• Blood Sense Tower, Deptford, London (p. 35)
• 'Otherworldliness': The Pull of Black Velvet, Latex, Tights, Quilts, Tablecloths and Frocks: An Interview with Will Alsop (p. 36)
• Extreme Networks (p. 42)
• Skin/Weave/Pattern (p. 44)
• Holon Design Museum, Israel (p. 50)
• Lister Mills, Bradford (p. 51)
• Textile Tectonics: An Interview with Lars Spuybroek (p. 52)
• Thomas More Council Estate, London: A re-Fabricated Picturesque Landscape (p. 60)
• The Big Air World: From 'Cotton' to 'Air' (p. 61)
• Camouflage as Aesthetic Sustainability (p. 62)
• The Great Veil of the Central Axis (p. 69)
• Parametric Matter (p. 70)
• The Notion of the Membrane and the Aesthetics of Trans-Textuality (p. 73)
• Fabric Architecture and Flexible Design (p. 74)
• Architextiles: Royal College of Art Departments of Architecture and Textiles (p. 80)
• Woven Surface and Form (p. 82)
• Cutty Sark, Greenwich, London (p. 90)
• Nirah, Bedford, UK
• Tambabox, Tambacounda, Senegal (p. 91)
• Tensile Structure Design: An Engineer's Perspective (p. 92)
• Y-Knots, Mile End and the Lower Lee Valley, East London (p. 96)
• An Embellishment: Purdah (p. 97)
• Tectonics and Textiles (p. 98)
• Textiles for 21st-Century Living (p. 102)
• Tate in Space (p. 108)
• Bio-Tissue Hotel (p. 109)
• Interior Eye: The Hotel of Reflections (p. 112)
• Building Profile: National Waterfront Museum, Swansea (p. 116)
• Practice Profile: Sauerbruch Hutton (p. 120)
• Home Run: Project Units 2b and 2c, Nuovo Portello, Milan (p. 128)
• McLean's Nuggets (p. 132)
• Site Lines: Fiat Tagliero Service Station (p. 134)