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Architecture + Textiles = Architextiles
Author(s) -
Garcia Mark
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.345
Subject(s) - architecture , textile design , architectural engineering , textile , event (particle physics) , process (computing) , sociology , visual arts , engineering , computer science , engineering ethics , history , art , physics , archaeology , quantum mechanics , operating system
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 society's fast‐changing cultural and consumer demands, enabling the production of more dynamic, flexible, interactive, event and process‐based spaces. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.