Interest in tensile structures is fast growing thanks to ecological concerns and the new possibilities offered by cutting-edge materials and technologies.
Tents have been prized for centuries for their lightness, mobility, small footprint and structural elegance. New tents offer innovative and significant solutions to age-old problems. With the demand on architects to touch the earth lightly, together with a cross-disciplinary interest in technotextiles, membrane structures are assuming new prominence and pleasing forms.
This wide-ranging international survey looks at the exciting possibilities of contemporary tensile building and the most interesting membrane structures created in recent years.
Includes:
Architectural and cultural history of the tent
Thirty recent projects grouped by theme, such as atrium covers and fabric walls, ring roofs and convertibles, small peaks, large waves
Accessible text descriptions, photographs and line drawings.
New Tent Architecture will be valued by architecture and design professionals, engineers and students everywhere.
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