Textile Architecture

An enormous, electronically operated umbrella stretches across a courtyard, flexible panels replace solid walls, an air-filled bubble is turned into a performance hall: this volume presents promising projects that envision a future when textiles are widely and innovatively employed as architectural elements.
Though they are frequently reduced to a decorative afterthought in contemporary interior design, textiles are extremely versatile, with a range of tactile qualities and surprising strength, which gives them tremendous architectural potential, ranging from simple solutions to high-tech applications.
Presenting projects by prominent architects such as Rem Koolhaas, Herzog & de Meuron, Kengo Kuma and Graft Architects, this richly illustrated edition – which serves as a resource book as well as a source of inspiration – provides an overview of the wide ranging possibilities for the application of textiles in building design.

Author: Sylvie Krüger
Text in English/German
Jovis Pubishers, 2009
ISBN 978-3-86859-017-3

The book is no longer available in the book trade. If interested, it can be ordered for 49,80 € plus shipping costs under info@sylviekrueger.de.

09.11.2022
Lecture: “Aspects of Function and Aesthetics in Interior Textile Architecture”
Technische Hochschule Rosenheim, Faculty of Interior Architecture

29.04.2021
Lecture: “Textile Architecture” for the seminar “Architecture is Trash”
TUM, Faculty of Architecture

27.01.2021
Konstfack Research Week
Lecture: “Aspects of Function and Aesthetics in Interior Textile Architecture”
Konstfack, Stockholm, Sweden

10/2020 – 02/2021
Workshop “Recycle and Reuse – A textile Intervention in the Interior”
Kunsthochschule Kassel, study program “Designing textile products”

25.09.2019
SUISSE SKIN – The Arcitectural Conference on the Building Envelope of the Future
Lecture: “Textile Architecture”
Suisse Skin, Bern

09.-10.12.2017
2.1 Discussion Forum
Fabpublic! – Talking about Textile, Community and Public Space
mill6CHAT, Hongkong

20.03.2015
Panel discussion: Modern Architecture meets Textile Interior
Münchner Stoff-Frühling 2015, Munich, Germany

12.11.2013
Lecture „Textile Architecture – Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow“
Exhibition: Anything goes
M:AI Museum für Architektur und Ingenieurskunst
Gelsenkirchen, Germany

02.10.2013
Lecture „Textile Architecture – Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow“
BDIA event
Staatliches Textil- und Industriemuseum
Augsburg, Germany

05.09.2013
Lecture „Textile Architecture – Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow“
Staatliches Textil- und Industriemuseum
Augsburg, Germany

12.+18.10.2011
Lecture „Textile Architecture“
Interior Architecture Department
Hochschule Rosenheim, Germany

22.06.2011
Lecture and Workshop „Textile Architecture“
Kvadrat Showroom, Berlin, Germany

19.05.2011
Lecture and Workshop „Textile Architecture“
Kvadrat Showroom, Hamburg, Germany

17.03.2011
Lecture and Workshop „Textile Architecture“
Haus der Gegenwart, Munich, Germany

16.02.2011
Lecture „Textile Architecture“
KAP FORUM, Cologne, Germany

24.-25.09.2010
Lecture „Textile Architecture”
„Enmeshed: Architecture and Textiles in Contemporary Design Practise
Conference at the Konstfack in Stockholm, Sweden

19.09.2010
Lecture and Workshop „Textile Architecture“
Haus der Gegenwart, Munich, Germany

09.07.2010
Lecture „Textile Architecture“
Allmann Sattler Wappner Architects, Munich, Germany

12.11.2009
Lecture „Textile Architecture“ and book presentation
„Open House | Recycling – Textile – Architecture – Innovation“
Showroom Christian Fischbacher, Munich, Germany

01.-04.04.2008
Workshop „Textile Architecture“
AMD – Akademie Mode & Design, Munich, Germany

„Textile Architecture“ at Staatliches Textil- und Industriemuseum Augsburg, 2013

The aim of this special exhibition was to show the historical development as well as current architectural projects and textile examples from everyday life in order to make this topic accessible to a broad public. The basis of the exhibition was the book „Textile Architecture“ by Sylvie Krüger, which was published in 2009 by Jovis.
The exhibition was structured in the five construction principles of textile architecture: the curtain, the textile roof, the umbrella, the tent and the bubble.
These design principles were implemented in a spatially tangible way and conveyed the contents by means of texts, images, models, material samples and films.
In addition, visitors were able to find out more about the wide range of textile materials in a material room.