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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 746.92
EAN: 9781859737576
ISBN: 1859737579
Label: Berg Publishers
Manufacturer: Berg Publishers
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: November 01, 2003
Publisher: Berg Publishers
Sales Rank: 289523
Studio: Berg Publishers
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Architecture is making its presence felt in cutting-edge fashion. The pliable metals, membrane structures, lightweight glasses and plastics used in building construction are creeping onto the catwalk. As they do so, their impact on recent textile developments has produced fabrics that enable clothing to act as individual climate-controlled environments that can exchange information with embedded sensors, resulting in wearable ‘dwellings’ that act as both shelter and clothing. At the same time, architects are borrowing the techniques of pleating, stapling, cutting and draping from traditional tailoring to design buildings that are flexible, interactive, inflatable and even portable.
Although the relationship between architecture and fashion was recognized more than a century ago, the connection between them has rarely been explored by historians, designers or practicing architects. The Fashion of Architecture is the first attempt to investigate the contemporary relationship between architecture and fashion in considerable depth, by examining the ideas, imagery, techniques and materials used by visionaries such as Martin Margiela, Issey Miyake, Alexander McQueen, Tadao Ando and Daniel Libeskind. As mavericks ranging from Hussein Chalayan and Rei Kawakubo to Rem Koolhaas and Zaha Hadid describe architecture’s role in the formation of fashion identities, new readings of both areas emerge. Probing and far-reaching in its content, The Fashion of Architecture is the most comprehensive study of this exciting area to date.
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Rating: - the fashion of architecture
Is extremely modern, the information is convincing and the point of view of the book is futuristic.
I recommend this book to anybody within the fashion or architecture industry
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Dewey Decimal Number: 746.92
EAN: 9781859737576
ISBN: 1859737579
Label: Berg Publishers
Manufacturer: Berg Publishers
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: November 01, 2003
Publisher: Berg Publishers
Sales Rank: 289523
Studio: Berg Publishers