Böcker av Paola Antonelli

The first survey on the interdisciplinary biodesign genius of Neri Oxman, pioneer of "material ecology" Throughout her 20-year career, Neri Oxman has invented not only new ideas for materials, buildings and construction processes, but also new frameworks for interdisciplinary¿and interspecies¿collaborations. She coined the term ¿material ecology¿ to describe her process of producing techniques and objects informed by the structural, systemic and aesthetic wisdom of nature, from the shells of crustaceans to the flow of human breathing. Groundbreaking for its solid technological and scientific basis, its rigorous and daring experimentation, its visionary philosophy and its unquestionable attention to formal elegance, Oxman¿s work operates at the intersection of biology, engineering, architecture and artistic design, material science and computer science. This book¿designed by Irma Boom and published to accompany a midcareer retrospective of Oxman¿s work¿highlights the interdisciplinary nature of the designer¿s practice. It demonstrates how Oxman¿s contributions allow us to question and redefine the idea of modernism¿a concept in constant evolution¿and of organic design. Some of the projects featured in the book and exhibition include the Silk Pavilion, which harnesses silkworms' ability to generate a 3-D cocoon out of a single thread silk in order to create architectural constructions; Aguahoja, a water-based fabrication platform that prints structures made out of different biopolymers; and Glass, an additive manufacturing technology for 3-D printing optically transparent glass structures at architectural dimensions.

Design and Violence.

This volume brings to light what is American about American design.

Published in conjunction with an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, this title thrives on an important late 20th-century cultural development in design: a shift from the centrality of function to that of meaning.

The story of British design told through works selected from the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

There is a whole category of design objects and prototypes designed in order to respond to situations of emergency. This book explores these objects, featuring designs and objects in areas such as protective gear, everyday safety devices, emergency shelters, life support equipment, bioengineering and emergency vehicles.