Material Discipline

The Engineering of Life in Material Systems
Princeton Architectural Press By Ciro Najle

6-3/4 x 9-1/2 in; 368 pp ; 418 color and 136 b/w images
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ISBN 9781568988313
ISBN10 1568988311
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Material Discipline -- What if architects designed as though they were engineers? In Material Discipline, architect and educator Ciro Najle looks at architects who did just that without access to today's powerful digital tools. Najle elucidates the design approaches and completed works of the celebrated mid-twentieth-century architects Pier Luigi Nervi, Frei Otto, Buckminster Fuller, and Robert Le Ricolais. These studies provide the foundation for a new method of creating building forms by integrating engineering during the conceptual design phase, and using structural analysis software, normally a post-design tool, as a preliminary design tool. Material Discipline is fully illustrated with in-studio-process photographs, computer renderings, engineering software screen shots, and models. Material Discipline is at once a remarkable feat of architectural research and a useful guide to developing one's own approach to design.

Ciro Najle is a visiting architecture critic at Cornell University.

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