New Tent Architecture is the first major publication to look at the exciting possibilities of contemporary tensile building and the most interesting membrane structures created in recent years. This wide-ranging international survey begins with a substantial architectural and cultural history of the tent, considering its origins, meaning and ecological elegance. The core of the book features thirty recent projects, grouped by theme latrium covers and fabric wails, ring roofs and convertibles, small peaks,Large wavesl and presented extensively through accessible text descriptions, photographs and line drawings.

TENTS AS ARCHITECTURE

NEW SHAPES, NEW MATERIALS

GRAVITY'S LINE

SMALL PEAKS

LARGE WAVES

RINGS AND CONVERTIBLES

ATRIUM COVERS, FABRIC WALLS

NEW INTERPRETATIONS

BIBLIOGRAPHy AND RESOURCES

GLOSSARY

DIRECTORY OF ARCHITECTS