Princeton Architectural Press, New York, 2007, 2002, English
Nonfiction, Architecture; Nonfiction, Graphic Design; Nonfiction, Digital Media Design
ISBN: 9781568987118

From the Publisher. Presents products, furniture, fashion, architecture, and media that are expanding the limits of what we understand as surface. Reflecting the convergence of natural and artificial life, this book shows how enhanced and simulated skins appear everywhere in our contemporary world. Designers today manipulate the relationship between the inside and outside of objects, garments, and buildings, creating skins that both reveal and conceal, skins that have depth and complexity as well as their own behaviors and identities. Skin features the work of such notable designers and architects as Greg Lynn, Petra Blaisse, SPEEDO, Morphosis, Ross Lovegrove, Marcel Wanders, and many others. It also contains essays on artificial skin and digital surfaces, and a glossary of surface materials. Skin originally accompanied an exhibition at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York, and includes essays by Jennifer Tobias, Alicia Imperiale, and Grace Jeffers.

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