Billie Faircloth

Plastics Now

On Architecture's Relationship to a Continuously Emerging Material

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Arguing that architects' continued ignorance about plastics has prevented its use as a building material from becoming fully exploited, Billie Faircloth draws on a wide range of original data to explore its use and development. Essential reading.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 1338g
• ISBN-13: 9781138804500
• ISBN-10: 1138804509
• Artikelnr.: 41371383

Autorenporträt

Billie Faircloth is a practicing architect and partner at KieranTimberlake, where she leads transdisciplinary research, design, and problem-solving processes across fields including environmental management, chemical physics, materials science, and architecture. She fosters collaboration between trades, academies, and industries in order to define a relevant problem-solving boundary for the built environment.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: How Should We Use Plastics? Introduction A Method: How to Wrestle
With the Emergence of Plastics 1. Defining Plastics 2. Describing Plastics
3. Plastics. In. Building. 4. All-Plastics 5. Prototyping with Plastics 6.
Professing Plastics Epilogue Why We Use Plastics The Way That We Do. Index