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Skin : surface, substance + design / Ellen Lupton.

By: Lupton, Ellen.
Contributor(s): Tobias, Jennifer.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : Princeton Architectural Press, 2002Description: 239 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 1568983182.Subject(s): Design -- History -- 20th century | Skin -- In art | Skin -- Psychological aspectsDDC classification: 745.409045
Contents:
Foreword / Paul W. Thompson -- Skin, new design organics / Ellen Lupton -- Artificial skin / Jennifer Tobias -- Digital skins / Alicia Imperiale -- Beauty, horror + biotechnology -- Vessels + membranes -- Intelligence + touch -- Artificial light + artificial life -- Padding + protection -- Warps + folds -- Glossary of materials.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Every object has a skin. Thick or thin, smooth or rough, porous or impermeable, the skin is the line between the hidden inside and the outside we experience. Skin: Surface, Substance, and Design 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 provocative and stimulating 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. It reminds us that beauty is indeed only skin-deep. This book accompanies a major exhibition at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Paul W. Thompson -- Skin, new design organics / Ellen Lupton -- Artificial skin / Jennifer Tobias -- Digital skins / Alicia Imperiale -- Beauty, horror + biotechnology -- Vessels + membranes -- Intelligence + touch -- Artificial light + artificial life -- Padding + protection -- Warps + folds -- Glossary of materials.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Foreword (p. 25)
  • Acknowledgments (p. 26)
  • Skin: New Design Organics (p. 28)
  • Artificial Skin: Ingrown and Outsourced (p. 42)
  • Digital Skins: The Architecture of Surface (p. 54)
  • Beauty, Horror, + Biotechnology (p. 64)
  • Vessels + Membranes (p. 94)
  • Intelligence + Touch (p. 142)
  • Artificial Light + Artificial Life (p. 158)
  • Padding + Protection (p. 176)
  • Warps + Folds (p. 208)
  • Appendix Glossary of Materials (p. 232)
  • Skindex (p. 239)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Ellen Lupton is Adjunct Curator at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and Co-Chair of the Design Department of the Maryland Institute College of Art.