- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Berg Publishers; illustrated edition edition (20 Nov 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1859737579
- ISBN-13: 978-1859737576
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 20.6 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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- #84 in Books > Art, Architecture & Photography > Architecture > Planning
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'We've always admitted the links between car design and architecture, but buildings and fashion? It takes some bravery to talk of fashion in terms beyond superficial styling to clothing design innovations in the same breath as an architectural legend, but in doing so Quinn proves that the two disciplines are intertwined in more ways than we might think. The Fashion of Architecture reveals congruencies that many (in both industries) might prefer to ignore... to their peril.'Henrietta Thompson, Editor, Blueprint'Bradley Quinn traces the structures and spatial boundaries that are the common guidelines of fashion designers and architects and succeeds in pinpointing the similarities and differences these creative fields have gone through in the last century. 'The Fashion of Architecture' is an accurate and detailed account of their mutual influences.'Boris Moshkovits, Berliner Magazine'Bradley Quinn has written an original and insightful study of what is often a murky subject, s
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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 architectures 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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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
if you're an architect/architecture student who has a strong enjoyment in aesthetics in both clothing and buildings. then wow, this book is great.
it's filled with sentences and paragraphs good enough to quote over and over, it constructs a fantastically balanced argument, it manages to avoid being overly pretentious and unnecessarily wordy.
It begins to waffle by the end, but then most books do.
awesome read.
it's filled with sentences and paragraphs good enough to quote over and over, it constructs a fantastically balanced argument, it manages to avoid being overly pretentious and unnecessarily wordy.
It begins to waffle by the end, but then most books do.
awesome read.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Fashion and architecture are closely-related fields: they provide shelter for the body, design the very structures we live within, and connect high art creativity to the world of capital. But often writing on the fashion-architecture connection is not very satisfying, treating one or both in a simplistic manner and so failing to explore the full potential of the field. Quinn's book is different. He knows his architectural theory very well: Lefebvre, Tschumi, Deleuze and more, connecting these radical postmodern ideas to radical fashion designers such Hussein Chalayan and Comme des Garcons. Ideas from theory of 'deconstruction', 'the fold', and 'bricolage' are related to material fashion techniques, thereby exploring the full implications of these forms over and above their aesthetic impact. Quinn is also good at relating both architecture and fashion to society - this is not design in a void but in real social contexts. 'The Fashion of Architecture' is consequently a dense read - while well-designed and illustrated more like an art book, its content is fairly academic in style and contains some very sophisticated ideas. The reader unfamiliar with theory may find it heavy going; theory fans will surely enjoy seeing it expanded to unfamiliar fashion terrain!
Quinn is to be lauded for how comprehensively he considers the intersections of fashion and architecture. In Ch.1 he looks at the relation of both to the city, in terms of broader themes of vision, power, place and non-place. Ch.2 looks at the spaces of fashion, both shops and online, especially the Prada and Comme des Garcons stores that are at the cutting edge of architectural design. Ch.3 is theoretical, on reconstruction, deconstruction, unconstruction and absence. Ch.4 addresses the idea of 'urban nomads', and architectural experiments such as Archigram. Ch.5 focuses on Hussein Chalayan's experiments at the outer limits of what can be called clothing; Ch.6 looks at the relationship between fashion and art. Ch.7 is on Lucy Orta, and Ch.8 looks at how fashion photography uses the city and ideas of urban decay to create its own image-meanings. Finally, Ch.9 is considers how different forms link fashion and architecture: blobs, the fold, twisting, blurring and masking/revealing.
This book is fascinating, packed full of ideas and key reading for anyone into architectural theory; branding, marketing and retail; new trends in the design arts; or just radical dressing up. Well-written, well-referenced and insightful, it's inspired me in all sorts of ways.
Quinn is to be lauded for how comprehensively he considers the intersections of fashion and architecture. In Ch.1 he looks at the relation of both to the city, in terms of broader themes of vision, power, place and non-place. Ch.2 looks at the spaces of fashion, both shops and online, especially the Prada and Comme des Garcons stores that are at the cutting edge of architectural design. Ch.3 is theoretical, on reconstruction, deconstruction, unconstruction and absence. Ch.4 addresses the idea of 'urban nomads', and architectural experiments such as Archigram. Ch.5 focuses on Hussein Chalayan's experiments at the outer limits of what can be called clothing; Ch.6 looks at the relationship between fashion and art. Ch.7 is on Lucy Orta, and Ch.8 looks at how fashion photography uses the city and ideas of urban decay to create its own image-meanings. Finally, Ch.9 is considers how different forms link fashion and architecture: blobs, the fold, twisting, blurring and masking/revealing.
This book is fascinating, packed full of ideas and key reading for anyone into architectural theory; branding, marketing and retail; new trends in the design arts; or just radical dressing up. Well-written, well-referenced and insightful, it's inspired me in all sorts of ways.
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the book was in very good condition.the book is very interesting and well portrays the parallels between fashion and architecture
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10 Aug 2007
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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
I recommend this book to anybody within the fashion or architecture industry
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