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Camouflage as Aesthetic Sustainability
Author(s) -
Richter Dagmar
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.360
Subject(s) - camouflage , performative utterance , context (archaeology) , cover (algebra) , texture (cosmology) , textile , aesthetics , natural (archaeology) , art , art history , environmental ethics , computer science , history , artificial intelligence , engineering , philosophy , archaeology , mechanical engineering , image (mathematics)
Abstract A textile approach to architecture offers unique opportunities to explore a structure's surface and texture. Through a discussion of the history of the technique of camouflage and her own projects with Design Research and Development (DR_D), Dagmar Richter demonstrates the potential for surface enrichment to exceed mere ornament or patterning. A ‘performative texture’, camouflage interacts with its context mimicking the natural and effectively disguising whatever it covers. With a now long military association, camouflage also provides anything but a neutral background for its cover. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.