Halftitle -- Copyright -- Title Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1: Historical Context of Materials and Interior Design -- 1. The Industrial Age: Design movements and their materials -- 2. The evolution of materials -- 3. The historical influence of the environmental agenda and its impact on materials -- 4. The twenty-first century -- Part II: Selection -- 5. The brief and client -- Visual identity -- Cost, quality, and program -- 6. The site -- Existing buildings -- Step by Step: Recording materials in an existing building -- Step by Step: Making a sensory reading of a site -- New buildings, proposed buildings, buildings under construction -- Temporary sites -- Context -- 7. The concept -- Step by Step: Surface to form -- Step by Step: Combining materials -- Part III: Application -- 8. Material properties -- Functional properties -- Relative properties -- Sensory properties -- Sight -- Step by Step: Understanding color -- Touch -- Smell and taste -- Hearing -- Environmental properties -- Be informed -- Be responsible -- Be creative -- Subjective properties -- Personal readings -- Socially or politically constructed readings -- Cultural readings -- The maker's reading -- 9. Material detail -- Step by Step: Repeat components -- Step by Step: Recording joints and junctions -- Step by Step: Visiting an exemplar building -- Part IV: Communicating from Concept to Completion -- 10. Thinking and communicating through drawing -- 11. Concept stage -- Thinking "through the material" -- Thinking "through the sketch" -- The sketchbook -- Freehand sketches and "drawings" -- Step by Step: Representing material atmospheres -- Step by Step: Representing existing materials -- Sketch models and conceptual models -- Materials vocabulary -- "Spirit of place" samples objects -- Precedent images -- 12. Design development -- Drawings and models.

Computer-aided design (CAD) drawings -- Sample boards and material products -- Step by Step: Presenting material samples -- 13. Detail and construction stage -- Detail and working drawings -- Drawing conventions -- Written representation and description -- Prototypes -- Post-construction and occupation -- Part V: Material Classifications, Processes, and Sources -- 14. Material classifi cations -- Polymers -- Metals -- Wood and other organic fi bers -- Ceramics and glass -- Stone and slate -- Animal products -- Composites -- New and emerging materials and processes -- Materials development -- Materials processing -- 15. Material sources and resources -- Practice libraries (private) -- University/institutional libraries (semiprivate or public) -- Materials databases -- Trade fairs, exhibitions, manufacturers' showrooms -- Part VI: Case Studies -- Case study 1. Atmosphere: Beijing Noodle Bar, Design Spirits Co. Ltd -- Case study 2. Brand identity: Projects for Levi Strauss, Jump Studios -- Case study 3. Narratives: Collaborative interiors, Tracey Neuls -- Case study 4. Pattern and surface: Installations, Gunilla Klingberg -- Case study 5. Creating space: softwall + softblock modular system, molo design, ltd -- Case study 6. A material response to site: Concept for an installation, Alex Hoare -- Case study 7. Sustainable exhibition design: "Atmosphere", Casson Mann -- Case study 8. Material detail and construction I: Pink Bar, Jakob + MacFarlane -- Case study 9. Material detail and construction II: Republic of Fritz Hansen, BDP and TinTab -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Further reading -- Index -- Picture credits -- Acknowledgments.