Faculty

Martin Bechthold


Professor
Department of Architecture

 

Publications - Innovative Surface Structures

 

Table of Contents
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
PART I. SURFACE ARCHITECTURE.
  Chapter 1. Lightweight design - new directions
  Chapter 2. The quest for thinness
PART II. MEMBRANE STRUCTURES.
  Chapter 3. Types and structural behavior
  Chapter 4. Form-finding and analysis
  Chapter 5. Materials and Fabrication
PART III. RIGID SURFACES.
  Chapter 6. Form and structure
  Chapter 7. From concepts to constructs
  Chapter 8: Material and construction approaches
PART IV. PERSPECTIVES.
  Chapter 9. Emerging material technologies and systems
  Chapter 10. Towards a new architecture of structural surfaces.
Bibliography
Index